Category Archives: Sports Injuries and Management

ACL Reconstruction Trends

ACL Reconstruction Trends

ACL Reconstruction Is A Highly Successful Surgery Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery is a very common elective surgery in Australia and from a physiotherapy perspective are one of the most common post surgical rehabilitation programs that physiotherapists play an active role in. In my experience an ACL reconstruction is a surgery which has a… Read More >

How To Reduce Return To Sport Timeframes With Hamstring Strain Injuries

Reducing Return To Sport Timeframes Following Hamstring Strain

Hamstring Strain Common With Sprinting Hamstring injuries are both an equally common and frustrating injury for athletes involved in sprinting sports to experience. Frustrating because following injury there is always a recovery period required but more so because a hamstring strain is an injury that tends to have high recurrence rates with some reports suggesting… Read More >

New Findings In Hamstring Injury Management

Hamstring Injury Management And Physiotherapy

Hamstring Strain Season Is Upon Us For many of our Sydney based weekend warriors we have just seen the conclusion of the winter sports season with finals occurring last weekend across many of the netball and football codes. Leading up to these finals series I am sure like ours there where many Sydney based physio… Read More >

Shockwave Therapy An Effective Non-Invasive Treatment For Soft Tissues Of The Musculoskeletal System

Shockwave Therapy: Effective Non-Invasive Treatment

Shockwave Therapy: A Not So New Tool In Physiotherapy More accurately referred to as extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT in short) shockwave therapy in 2022 is now commonplace as a treatment modality provided in physiotherapy clinics across Sydney and Australia wide. The word “extracorporeal” refers to any procedure performed outside the body and with ESWT shockwaves… Read More >

Creaky Knees Are Not Always A Sign Of Osteoarthritis

Creaky Knees Are Not Always A Sign Of Osteoarthritis

Creaky Knees Is Medically Known As Audible Crepitus Almost daily in our Randwick and Sydney CBD physio practices I would have patients coming to me expressing concern around having noticed they have creaky knees. Frequently, these patients will be complaining that their knees are making sounds when performing squatting or bending movements, or when going… Read More >

Kicking Posterior Ankle Impingement Goodbye

Kicking Posterior Ankle Impingement Goodbye

Treatment Of Posterior Ankle Impingement Posterior Ankle Impingement complaints are relatively common in athletes who participate in football codes that involve a lot of kicking motions such as soccer and AFL. They are also common in jumping sports such as basketball, gymnastics and dance. Symptoms of os trigonum injuries typically involve pain in the deep… Read More >

Diagnosis Of A Symptomatic Os Trigonum

Diagnosis Of A Symptomatic Os Trigonum

A Symptomatic Os Trigonum Is Seldom A Cause Of Ankle Pain It is worth noting here that under normal circumstances having an os trigonum is of no consequence and that a symptomatic os trigonum itself is seldom a cause of ankle pain. It is not uncommon for the presence of an os trigonum to be… Read More >

Os Trigonum Relevant Posterior Ankle Pain

Os Trigonum Relevant Posterior Ankle Pain

What Does Relevant Os Trigonum Pain Feel Like? When an individual has a symptomatic os trigonum causing posterior ankle pain there are a number of signs and symptoms they may present with including: Experiencing pain located between the area of the achilles tendon and the peroneal tendons. Pain felt at the outside posterior part of… Read More >

Os Trigonum Injury

Os Trigonum Injury

The Nutcracker Phenomenon The pain associated with os trigonum injury is often reported as a patient experiencing a deep unresolving pain in the posterior ankle joint following ankle injury, or associated with an overload of repetitive forceful toe pointing actions. Although the exact mechanism of an os trigonum injury varies it is commonly associated with… Read More >

Os Trigonum Syndrome A Ballet Dancers Nightmare

Os Trigonum Syndrome A Ballet Dancers Nightmare

Ankle Pain And Posterior Tibial Talar Impingement Syndrome Several different terminologies have been used to describe the condition termed Os Trigonum Syndrome. Os Trigonum Syndrome is characterised by pain felt in the back of the ankle, elicited with toe pointing (plantarflexion) motions. Sometimes also referred to as the symptomatic os trigonum, talar compression syndrome, posterior… Read More >