Classes
- GLAD Classes (to help clients with osteoarthritis)
- Hydrotherapy (classes in a heated swimming pool)
- Strength & Conditioning classes (all levels)
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Osgood-Schlatter Disease: Top 5 ways to manage this disease
Osgood-Schlatter Disease is a common reason for young teenage clients to come into our clinics. If you have pain at the front of the knee, then this article is for you. Find out the specific causes of pain in the front of the knee, Osgood-Schlatter Disaese and our top 5 ways to manage this disease.
Soft-Tissue Therapy vs Massage Therapy: What is Soft Tissue Therapy?
In a nutshell, Soft tissue therapy is remedial massage on steroids. It is targeted clinical massage. It is hands on bodywork that can get you out of many kinds of painful episodes. Soft tissue therapy reduces tensile and compressive stress on your body and can dramatically speed up the healing process.
Top 4 Immunity-Boosting Nutrition Tips to Put a Spring in Your Step
Do you need to boost your immunity? Feeling sluggish at the end of winter? For an active Canberran, there’s only one thing that bugs me (excuse the pun) more than being unable to exercise due to an injury. And that is being unable to train due to illness. Heavy exercise has been shown to reduce…
Tightness vs Stiffness – Understanding the difference
Do you suffer from muscle tightness or stiffness? Let’s find out the difference between muscle tightness and muscle stiffness. Fixing the problem once and for all is naturally the focus. However, we need to delve deeper than this to truly understand the problem. “My back is as stiff as a board.” “This part of my…
Volunteering in Nepal: The Trek to Everest Base Camp
This was the first Volunteering in Nepal trip since we set up our charitable works program. To catch you up – on my last journey to Nepal, I discussed with Matt from Hike Himalaya Adventures how Sport & Spinal Physiotherapy could help the disadvantaged in the remote rural villages of Nepal. You can read about…
Volunteering at the Mother’s Day Classic (2018)
Sport & Spinal Physio really love volunteering our services at the Mother’s Day Classic run every year. It is a wonderful event with a great community of volunteers and participants. We regularly have therapists volunteer their time on Mother’s Day to help out in our massage tent for a few hours. This year, David, who normally…
The 6 Best Pilates Exercises for Your Upper Body
Making Pilates exercises part of your regular routine can help you fix any posture related issues. If you have no idea what Pilates is, check out our other article “Pilates Reformer: Your Most Burning Questions Answered“. These articles discuss the benefits of Pilates exercises more in depth. To put it simply, Pilates is a physical training activity…
Key tips to avoid overtraining!
Do you want to improve your fitness but not burnout? Key tips to avoid overtraining! Overtraining – what is it? From my time working with a wide-range of sporting athletes – weekend warriors through to semi-professional, it is apparent that many injuries I see coming into the clinic stem from training loads – be…
Physiotherapists get injured too! How I rehabilitated my own injury
Yes, Physiotherapists get injured too! Sometimes more often than others because we think we know it all. This article is about how I recovered from my own injury as a physiotherapist. I will discuss some particulars to my specific injury, however this article is about what I learnt being the patient instead of the…
TRX / suspension training 6 great exercises to try!
TRX a suspension training method, is not a novel exercise form. It has been around for years. Created for the US military by a navy seal in 1997. Suspension training was designed so people could sustain fitness with little equipment anywhere, any time. The TRX equipment is designed to be hung from doors, trees or…
5 Reasons to Give Trail Running a Trial!
Are you tired of running the same roads? How many times have you already run the bridge to bridge this year? Have you ever thought of giving trail running a go? Trail running is becoming increasingly popular in Canberra. The freedom of being out in the wilderness is something to drive your focus and training…
Inside the Ancient Practice of Tai Chi
I have previously written about Standing Meditation and the numerous physical, mental and emotional benefits. Last year I had the opportunity to write an article for Leiden Magazine on Tai Chi which was featured on their website.