A fracture occurs when excessive stress or force is applied to a bone causing the breaking or snapping of that bone. If you’ve suffered a recent fracture to an arm, leg, wrist, ankle or a part of your spinal, make sure you don’t skip the move phase of your rehabilitation.
Finally, you have reached the point where your physiotherapist and orthopaedic surgeon has cleared you for a return to your chosen sport. Woohoo!! You have both physically and figuratively jumped every hurdle placed in front of you over this long process – well done! However, do you feel ready? Or are you nervous and tentative about going back?
The surgery to reconstruct your ACL ligament is nothing to be scoffed at. It is a substantial operation that is traumatic to your knee. The graft, whether it be hamstrings, patella or quadriceps tendon needs to be harvested, tunnels drilled into your femur and tibia for the graft to be inserted and then secured with screws. Sounds pretty full on, and it is! Due to this you can often end up with a lot of swelling and soreness immediately post-surgery. So what do you need to do to settle this down and kick start your rehab? Read on to find out…
Darcy will take you through some basic tips that are important in the management preparation and rehabilitation from a total knee replacement.
Ankle sprains need more love and attention than you may think. Taking the right steps can help you to avoid further injury and get back to performing better (& faster)!
Do you have golfer’s elbow, but don’t play golf, or participate in any golf-like activities? Read below to find out how your wrist positioning can be causing pain at your elbow!
Physiotherapist Darcy takes you through the management of OCD. An injury that can occur in the knees of children and adolescents with pain commonly occurring during or after sport and activity.
Our physio team talks us through why feet are much more than things you just jam into shoes and forget about. We commonly talk about how having a strong and stable foot/ankle complex beats having the most expensive runner and how having a lack of control around your hips can manifest in your foot becoming an issue. Keen to know more?