By In Touch Physiotherapy Back pain • Exercise • Injury prevention • Physiotherapy tips • Sport performance 0 Comments

Prevent Lower Back Pain When Cycling

In general, cycling has very low injury rates (excluding crashes and collisions) compared to other sports. However, when we are hunched over our handlebars for long periods of time, it can place a large cumulative amount of load on our low back and cause pain. In fact, lower back pain (LBP) is reported in more than 50% of cyclists. 

Whether you are a beginner cyclist looking to set yourself up for success, or an experienced cyclist dealing with lower back pain when cycling, here are our top 3 tips to address and prevent pain from occurring.

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By In Touch Physiotherapy Exercise • Injury prevention • Running • Sport performance • Sports injuries 0 Comments

You Can’t Go Wrong By Being Strong! Strength Training For Sports Injury Prevention

Whether you’re a gym buff, a marathon runner, a cross-fit enthusiast or a bodybuilder, it’s statistically probable that you have been or will at one point be injured. Although injuries are never completely unavoidable, there are clear evidenced-based ways to reduce the risk.

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By Eric Chew Exercise • Injury prevention • Physiotherapist • Physiotherapy tips • Q&A with Physio • Running • Sports injuries 0 Comments

Triathlon Injuries

Getting injured whilst participating in triathlon is incredibly common. Around 75% of all triathletes will suffer from injury during their racing career, rising to 91% for Ironman (long distance) triathletes. Overuse is the most common cause of injury – which is good news as that is something we can manage – usually occurring in the lower leg or ankle, knees, low back or shoulders. Occasionally injuries will be due to some kind of trauma, most likely falling off the bike!

Written by Wendy Casterton, Physiotherapist

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By Eric Chew Exercise • Injury prevention • Muscles • Physiotherapy tips • Shoulder • Sport performance • Sports injuries 0 Comments

Getting back to the fitness routine you love after an injury

Often, we are motivated towards a fitness routine we enjoy, be it the daily ritual at the gym or yoga studio, the weekly scuttle around the tennis court, or even a guilt-driven run around the block.

Time and time again, we struggle with sustaining this consistency due to our enslavement to work, personal commitments, or a new/old injury.

It gets frustrating seeing how far we’ve progressed, only to regress on our fitness goals.

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By Eric Chew Exercise • Muscles • Pelvic Floor • Physiotherapy tips • Q&A with Physio • Women's Health 0 Comments

How do physiotherapist get back to fitness after pregnancy

” I suffered from a large rectus diastisis (abdominal separation) after having my twins and have worked hard on core strengthening Pilates Exercises. If done correctly with good positioning these are very effective in strengthening the abdominal core muscles again.”

SARAH HAYWARD, Senior Physiotherapist, Prohealth In Touch Physiotherapy

 

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By Eric Chew Achilles • Exercise • Hip • Injury prevention • Knee Injuries • Pelvic Floor • Physiotherapy tips • Short and long-term pain • Sport performance • Sports injuries • tendon 0 Comments

Test your hip strength for your chronic ankle sprain

Hip weakness is often neglected but is crucial to be identified especially for a chronically sprained ankle that is not improving. Hip weakness may have developed since the very acute stage of your injury when you walked in a compensatory movement pattern to avoid putting weight on your injured ankle. If the hip or gluteal muscles continue to stay weak at the later stage, it would put extra stress and continue to irritate your ankle.

 

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