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Sideline Management of Abdominal Injuries

November 7, 2012 by The Sports Physiotherapist 1 Comment

Sideline Management of Abdominal Injuries

Many of the world’s sports physical therapists and physiotherapists spend their weekends at sporting events around the world. Unfortunately, many of us do not have the support of a huge medical team around us, such as that available to James Sutherland at Wallabies games. Therefore, we are often the most highly trained “medical” staff at any given event, and when it comes to injured athletes the buck stops with us. This means we require knowledge on a variety of conditions that may not be “sports” injuries and many abdominal injuries may fall outside the expertise of a physio.

Filed Under: Article Review, Assessment, Blog, Rehabilitation, Spine, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment Tagged With: assessment, Diagnosis, On-Field Physio, Sports injuries

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Assessment and Management

October 5, 2012 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Assessment and Management

Introduction The condition discussed in this article, you will come to find, is quite complex and can be a battle for the physiotherapist and physical therapist. Thoracic outlet syndrome is considered to be a collection of quite diverse syndromes rather than a single entity (Yanaka et al., 2004), and therefore, accurate diagnosis and enlightened treatment […]

Filed Under: Assessment, Blog, Condition Review, Diagnosis, Rehabilitation, Shoulder, Spine, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment Tagged With: assessment, Diagnosis, EBP, Exercise, Shoulder, Spinal, Treatment

Lumbar Spine Mobilisation For Hamstring Strains

December 1, 2011 by The Sports Physiotherapist 5 Comments

As sports physiotherapists we regularly assess and treat hamstring strains, sometimes on a daily basis! Hawkins et al. (2001) showed that hamstring injuries accounted for approximately 12% of football injuries, and thus are extremely common. Given their frequency, hamstring injuries have been discussed commonly on this site. However, to date, we have not paid much attention to the often recommended intervention of spinal manual therapy and its role in the evidence based management of hamstring strains….

Filed Under: Article Review, Blog, Hip, Manual Technique, Spine, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment Tagged With: Hamstring, Manual Therapy, Muscle Injury, Sports Physiotherapy, Stretches, Treatment

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