Netball has the highest female participation rate of any sport in Australia. Adolescents athletes gain the social benefits of being a team member along with great physiological benefits such as improved bone density, lean muscles mass and cardiovascular fitness! Unfortunately like all sport it does have the risk of injury. The most common injuries in […]

Most of us are familiar with the phrase, ‘Knowledge is power.’ When it comes to musculoskeletal injuries, acquiring a deeper understanding of an injury enables us to implement both better recovery and prevention strategies. The ‘power’ that this gives an athlete is in reduced recovery time, less time off sport due to injury and a reduced […]

Your body is designed to move. However, with the rapid technological advancements that took place in the mid-20th century we saw a transition from physically demanding jobs requiring people to move to more sedentary jobs. Current statistics tell us that: 12 hours is the amount of time the average person is sitting a day[1] The […]

There is no easy answer to this but I will try my best. Returning to exercise varies for every individual and is dependent on a number of factors such as your birthing experience, the recovery of your core muscles (pelvic floor, transverse abdominus, multifidus and diaphragm), your pre-birth fitness and your general feeling ie your […]

Our pelvic floor is a complex of muscles that sit on the base of our pelvis and are important in bladder and bowel function as well as protecting our pelvic organs (your bladder, bowel and uterus). During pregnancy, the ligaments that hold our organs up begin to sag due to the hormone relaxin and the […]

Physiotherapy has been shown clinically to help manage some of the signs and symptoms of blocked ducts or mastitis. A blocked duct can be defined as a blockage of one or more of the ducts that carry milk to the nipple for the purpose of breastfeeding. Mastitis can develop if a blocked duct is not […]