by Dan Williams | Apr 10, 2011 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
In parts one and two of this series we covered the need for more effective hamstring injury screen, prevention and rehabilitation. In this, the final part, we discuss initiatives to fill this need. To aid in effective injury prevention, mode specificity is a vital...
by Dan Williams | Apr 7, 2011 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
What are the ten top ailments that reduce quality of life? We can examine this by looking at DALYs, or Disability Adjusted Life Years. Basically, these combine years of life lost due to premature death and years of life lived with a disability. DALYs are a great...
by Dan Williams | Apr 3, 2011 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
More time is spent in bed than in any other place. The importance of good posture in bed is evident. We spend the majority of our time every day doing very specific tasks, in very specific positions. Regardless of how minor the cumulative forces from the tasks may be,...
by Dan Williams | Apr 2, 2011 | Biomechanics, Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
In part one of this blog series, I discussed the prevalence of muscular injuries in general. In this, we discuss the specific need for further examination of the hamstrings – and why this muscle group is so predisposed to injury. Askling et al (2002) stated that...
by Dan Williams | Mar 29, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Psychology
The worst part of injury often isn’t the pain but the ongoing psychological withdrawal from exercise. Luckily, there is a way to minimise the strength losses caused by a single limb injury. A large percentage of the strength in a limb isn’t caused by...
by Dan Williams | Mar 16, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Click Here To Access The Full Exercise Warm-Up Library. A warm up should not be generic, but rather, specific to the movement being performed in the workout. Aside from the injury prevention benefits of a warm-up, the efficiency of movement can be drastically...
by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Ok, so this might sound like the next Terminator Movie – but the truth is, exercise machines could do a lot more damage than Arnie with a grenade launcher. People know how good exercise is. A lot of people exercise. But few exercise smart. It’s time to...
by Dan Williams | Dec 21, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The body should be trained as it is to be used. If the role of a muscle is to create movement, then completing that movement will in turn train the muscle. The hip extensors should be trained by extending the hip, the elbow flexors by flexing the elbow, the knee...
by Dan Williams | Dec 20, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
For too long, mainstream exercise has been characterised by low variation. Similar or identical exercises are completed multiple times a week, if not every day. Not only does this create an overly narrow physical response (an adaptation to the familiar requires an...
by Dan Williams | Dec 8, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Flexibility, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Older Persons
Hydrotherapy offers rehabilitation and recovery to a group of people who may otherwise not experience these benefits. Water based exercises allow the user to experience increases in joint mobility and range of motion without the impact associated with land based...
