A Physiotherapist’s Guide to Safe Return to Running  Understanding the Running Readiness Scale for Safe Running As a physiotherapist in Leichhardt, assessing a runner’s readiness to return to sport is crucial for preventing running-related injuries. Recent research by “The Running Physio” highlights a comprehensive “Running Readiness Scale” based on Luedke et…

Overtraining Injuries in Children   Many of the Australian sporting agencies have long promoted that early specialisation in sport seems to correlate with children experiencing more significant injuries early in life. Theoretically children have not organised all of their personal movement patterns by an early age.  In effect they are…

Cricket and Back Pain   Lower back pain, particularly for the fast bowler, is an all too familiar problem. For those that are working with higher training workloads and intensity, this can be problematic. Sport Health, a publication of Sports Medicine Australia, recently published (Vol 37 Issue 1, 2019) a…

Avoid pain in the neck working from home   The basic principles of a good ergonomic set-up are centred around loading the bones and minimising prolonged positioning, especially prolonged poor positioning requiring the overuse of muscles.​At work you may have had an ergonomic review optimising your work environment. Now you…

Injury Prevention with Training   If you’re like me, you may have relaxed with the lock down measures, maybe a little too much. With the prospect of sport re-starting and gyms reopening, its time to get ready Preseason/progressive training is such an important part of injury prevention and yet so…

Pain, swelling, clicking or discomfort to the knee when sitting or walking down slopes or stairs, are all symptoms of a common disorder known as Patellofemoral Syndrome.  Don’t panic, this syndrome is very treatable with education and physiotherapy.  A recent review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (Comparative effectiveness of treatments…

Covid – 19 Returning to Sports – Some ideas and some of the evidence.I recently came across an excellent article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, “Physical inactivity is associated with a higher risk for severe Covid-19 outcomes; a study in 48440 patients”. The title outlines clearly the findings of the…

​I feel that it is possible to extrapolate the results from a study on the return of professional football competition in Qatar, amongst high levels of Covid infection, to apply to our communities in the Sydney’s Inner west. Certainly we’re all a little over our seclusion and the AIS (Australian…

I recently came across an article in the times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-to-start-running-a-beginners-guide-k6lhl6hp2) which I feel addresses many of the questions that I am asked by injured runners in the clinic.  ​The question is normally posed as,  “ I don’t know why I am injured as I don’t recall any accident causing my pain”.  Tissue loading is a…