In 2020, the World Health Organisation made notable updates to their exercise guidelines. These updates included increasing the recommendations for both the amount of exercise performed each week, as well as adding strength or resistance training such as push-ups or squats to the regimen. Unfortunately, under these guidelines, it was found that 85% of Australian adults and 80% of children were not meeting their exercise targets.
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Despite only 30% of Australians working in a trade role, 60% of workplace injuries involve tradies – and it’s something we see extensively across our physiotherapy clinics.
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Suffering a stroke is a sudden and unexpected event that has the potential to change the course of our health and our physical function across our lifetime. While strokes are often thought to be associated with older adults, 24% of all new stroke sufferers in Australia in 2020 were aged under 55 years old.
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From a young age, we all learn how pain occurs naturally in response to injury. Most of the time, it makes sense that something would hurt, such as when we roll out onto our ankles or trip down stairs. At other times pain can be more mysterious.
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Steve Sartori founded his first physiotherapy clinic, SportsMed, in 1996, the same year he began working with the North Queensland Cowboys. Since then, Steve has continued working with elite sports teams including the Australian Rugby League team and now, the Queensland Maroons.
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When learning about the pelvic floor, it’s common to come across information detailing the importance of preparing the pelvic floor for childbirth in women, and helping with recovery postpartum. The reality, however, is that our pelvic floor plays an incredibly important role for both men and women throughout our lives, forming part of our deep core muscles, and with pelvic floor problems affecting everything from continence to sexual health to back pain.
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Men often have a drastically different understanding of what health actually means. “I’ll be fine”, “It’s nothing”, “I’ve had worse” – we’ve all heard a man say it, or you may have said it yourself.
Statistically, men suffer more illness, more accidents, and die earlier than women due to a variety of preventable diseases, yet are less likely to seek help than their counterparts.
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When we think of Australia’s exercise recommendations of at least 2.5 hours of moderate exercise per week alongside two strength training sessions, many of us will immediately link this to helping maintain our physical and cardiovascular health, managing our weight, and preventing disease or conditions like diabetes.
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After sustaining an injury during sports, the first thing on many players’ agenda isn’t just recovering from that injury, but how to do so as fast as possible. While injuries sustained during sports can vary greatly in their location, severity, and how they occurred, there are five things that anyone can do to help optimise their recovery so they can get back on the sports field as fast as possible regardless of their circumstances.
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Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common in Australia. In fact, Australia has historically held the highest rate of ACL injury in the world. Despite a lot of media attention, ACL injuries are still poorly understood by sportsmen and women as well as everyday Australians who can also suffer an ACL injury from undertaking social and leisure activities.
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