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4 Physio Mantras To Live By In 2014

December 18, 2013 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

4 Physio Mantras To Live By In 2014

In the past this site has featured some lighter, colloquial blog posts. These articles discuss issues related to the greater physiotherapy community. Thus, I present a few mantras I have heard, adapted or made up for the physios to live by in the coming year.

Filed Under: Blog, Physio Issues Tagged With: Sports Physiotherapy, Sports Physiotherapy Interest

Radial Tunnel Syndrome: Assessment and Management

November 21, 2013 by The Sports Physiotherapist 4 Comments

Radial Tunnel Syndrome: Assessment and Management

Radial tunnel syndrome is rare, it is challenging to differentially diagnose and can be a monster to manage. If you have a recalcitrant case of tennis elbow then this post will interest you! This article discusses the best available evidence for assessment and management of radial tunnel syndrome.

Filed Under: Assessment, Blog, Condition Review, Diagnosis, Elbow, Exercise Prescription, Manual Technique, Modalities, Prevention, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment Tagged With: Elbow, Sports Physical Therapy, Sports Physiotherapy

Snapping Scapula Syndrome (Scapulothoracic Bursitis): Assessment and Management

August 7, 2013 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

Snapping Scapula Syndrome (Scapulothoracic Bursitis): Assessment and Management

Have you ever heard of snapping scapula syndrome? If you answered no, I would not be too surprised. Whilst this condition is more common than you may think, it seems to be underappreciated within the physiotherapy. Thus, this article will discuss snapping scapula syndrome including what it is, why it occurs and what you need to do to fix it!

Filed Under: Assessment, Blog, Condition Review, Diagnosis, Exercise Prescription, Injection, Manual Technique, Modalities, Prevention, Rehabilitation, Shoulder, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment Tagged With: assessment, Diagnosis, Exercise, Sports Physiotherapy Interest, Treatment

Manual Therapy for Inversion Ankle Sprains

July 4, 2013 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

Manual Therapy for Inversion Ankle Sprains

Ankle sprains are very common in the practice of sports physiotherapy. However, unfortunately many patients go on to have long term problems. This has lead to the development of many proposed treatments and rehabilitation programs. This article will discuss new research into the use of manual therapy techniques combined with exercises for the rehabilitation of inversion ankle sprains.

Filed Under: Article Review, Blog, Exercise Prescription, Foot and Ankle, Manual Technique, Treatment Tagged With: Ankle, Exercise, Manual Therapy, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment

Functional Performance Testing: An Assessment Necessity

June 5, 2013 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

Functional Performance Testing: An Assessment Necessity

As a sports physiotherapist, it is important that you not only rehabilitate athletes but ensure that they are fully fit to return to play. As many of you are fully aware, objective measures such us a full active range of motion does not determine an athlete’s readiness to RTP. Accordingly, a comprehensive assessment of an athlete’s function, via functional performance testing, becomes an absolute assessment necessity. This article will discuss current research on the the role and implementation of functional performance testing, as well as some tests that you may use in your own clinical practice.

Filed Under: Article Review, Assessment, Blog, Prevention Tagged With: assessment, Prevention, return to play, Sports Physiotherapy

TSP011: Health Business Success with Paul Wright (Part 2)

February 27, 2013 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

In This Episode In this episode of the podcast I continue the interview with Paul Wright. In Part 2, of the interview we discuss: The 4 most successful and easy to implement external marketing strategies How to overcome barriers to implementing these successful strategies 5 of Paul’s business failures and what he learnt from them Why […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Free Resources, Podcast Tagged With: Sports injuries, Sports Physical Therapy, Sports Physiotherapist Blog, Sports Physiotherapy

TSP010: Health Business Success with Paul Wright (Part 1)

February 5, 2013 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

In this episode of the podcast I interview Paul Wright. Paul Wright is a physiotherapist and business consultant. He graduated from his first degree, as a Physical Education teacher, in 1987 and then graduated as a physiotherapist in 1990. He has also completed an Advanced Diploma in Business Management. Paul has opened multiple multi-disciplinary health clinic and has been actively involved in clinical education around the world having lectured to over 20,000 health professionals…

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Filed Under: Blog, Free Resources, Podcast Tagged With: Sports Physical Therapy, Sports Physiotherapist Blog, Sports Physiotherapy Interest

Assessing Scapula Position

January 9, 2013 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

Introduction Sports physiotherapists regularly assess and treat shoulder pathologies. In my clinical practice, shoulders would place in the top 3 most common conditions (along with back and knee presentations). Given the frequency with which we see these problems, there is much interest in the best assessment and rehabilitation techniques for shoulder problems. This article will […]

Filed Under: Assessment, Blog, Sports Physiotherapy Tagged With: assessment, Shoulder, Sports injuries, Sports Physical Therapy, Sports Physiotherapy

Does A Forefoot Strike Pattern Reduce Injury?

December 12, 2012 by The Sports Physiotherapist Leave a Comment

Aerobic exercise, particularly in the form of running, has become more popular with the general population over the last few decades. Unfortunately, this increase in healthy exercise may come at a cost with up to 80% of runners reporting a lower limb injury. These trends mean that preventing running injuries is gaining significant importance in the world of sports medicine. One touted intervention that is currently in vogue is adapting the runner’s biomechanics to a forefoot strike pattern or barefoot running technique…

Filed Under: Article Review, Blog, Exercise Prescription, Foot and Ankle, Rehabilitation, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment Tagged With: Ankle, Exercise, Foot, Overuse Injury, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment

Nordic Hamstring Exercises

November 21, 2012 by The Sports Physiotherapist 1 Comment

Introduction Hamstring strains are commonly assessed and treated in the world of sports physiotherapy. They represent the most common injury in a number of sports, including AFL and soccer, accounting for up to 12-16% of injuries (Hawkins et al., 2001; Warren et al., 2010). Dvorak and Astrid (2000) suggested that hamstring injuries occur at an […]

Filed Under: Article Review, Blog, Body Area, Exercise Prescription, Hip, Knee, Post Type, Rehabilitation, Sports Physiotherapy, Treatment Tagged With: Exercise, Hamstring, Sports injuries, Sports Physical Therapy, Sports Physiotherapy

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4 Physio Mantras To Live By In 2014

In the past this site has featured some lighter, colloquial blog posts. These articles discuss issues related to the greater physiotherapy community. Thus, I present a few mantras I have heard, adapted or made up for the physios to live by in the coming year.

Radial Tunnel Syndrome: Assessment and Management

Radial tunnel syndrome is rare, it is challenging to differentially diagnose and can be a monster to manage. If you have a recalcitrant case of tennis elbow then this post will interest you! This article discusses the best available evidence for assessment and management of radial tunnel syndrome.

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