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Heat and ice treatments are popular treatments methods used every day, although are often misused. However, using the wrong one could slow down the recovery process or even make the problem worse. So when should you use heat and when should you u
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Rehabilitation is key to injury recovery and to the prevention of reinjury or further injury somewhere else along the chain. Rehabilitation is not just a case of complete this exercise 3 times per week, do 3 sets of 10 repetitions for three weeks and
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Working with young athletes, I've seen loads of these! In one week with elite academy footballers we had three; one Osgood Schlatters, one Severs and one Sinding Larson-Johansson. All three of these injuries occur as muscle and tendon length and exte
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What to remember when treating your soft tissue injury What happens following a soft tissue injury Desirable effects of treating them with cooling or heating Likely physical effects from cold/heat application To understand when best to
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We recently had a rugby player visit the clinic complaining of leg pain. The area of pain turned out to be a massive bruise from a couple of days earlier when another player had landed on him. We first assessed him to see whether the muscle was torn,
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With the recent onslaught of rugby in the media and doctors trying to ban tackling in school rugby, now seems a good time to discuss the reason for all of this. Concussion. Head injury can occur in many sports and the targeting of rugby seems a li
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