Poor posture and its affect on sporting ability
http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/how-to-unlock-your-athletic-potential-through-good-posture An excellent article summarising how poor posture can affect your sporting performance through common problems such as muscle imbalances, weakness and tightness. Muscles shorten because they are weak, because you hold them in a shortened position for long periods of time or because they are having excessive constant loads placed on them that they [...]
Physiotherapy or steroid for shoulder pain
In a study of physiotherapy versus steroid injection in over one hundred adults with shoulder rotator cuff problems, shoulder bursitis or shoulder tendinitis, both groups showed significant improvement. However, the steroid group needed more follow up appointments with their doctor over the following year compared to the physiotherapy group. Additionally, around 20% of both groups [...]
Should we be more critical of disabled dance?
An article in the most recent Dance UK magazine has an article about a charity called Invisible Difference. It is suggesting that audiences are not critical enough of disabled dance performance, appearing to be too embarrassed to offer realistic critiques of performance and this could be holding back disabled dance. A link to the charity [...]
Dance physiotherapy after an accident
Dance physiotherapy and how it can help recovery from an accident. This is a great example of what physiotherapy can do to get you moving after an accident!
Stretching Mistakes
A good article on stretching mistakes. One of the most debated topics in the strength and conditioning world in recent years has been whether or not static stretching is necessary and, if so, when it should be implemented. While I don’t think everyone needs it, and that there are certainly are times when it is [...]
20 years physiotherapy experience
20 years ago this month (August 1994) I finished my undergraduate degree in physiotherapy at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences. It wasn't the most salubrious part of Sydney, next to Rookwood Necropolis, the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere!