January 26, 2011

Exercise Videos, Injury, Personal Training, Resistance Training

Exercise should be fun. If you want to have fun and exercise at the same time, or recover from an injury, call me. Below is a link to a video of how some engineers made walking up stairs fun. Stairs anyone?

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January 23, 2011

General Healthcare, Newsletter, Osteoarthritis

Hi all, I am endeavouring to post a newsletter every month about the happenings in my world and the world of health, fitness and rehabilitation. Please find the attachment below to my first newsletter. Accelr8 jan2011_newsletter In this edition: My update Weightlifting prevents lymphedema in breast cancer survivors Stop running into danger Purple veggies and

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December 20, 2010

Canberra Raiders, Injury, Soft Tissue Therapy

Preparations for the 2011 NRL season are well on the way. I and 4 other soft tissue therapists have been treating the Canberra Raiders for the past 5 weeks. In the New Year, we will be once again treating the Raiders once a week until the start of the season. During competition we treat the

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December 15, 2010

Knee, Osteoarthritis

Believe it or not people find that surgery is the cure for everything. Guess what, its not, and this study proves it. In many cases surgery is the easy way out. People forget that after surgery you still have to do the strength training, the mobility work and the flexibility. Why not just do that

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December 14, 2010

Knee, Osteoarthritis

Sorry to ‘harp’ on about this but people are always giving me reasons not to exercise. In this article published by the Journal of Anatomy, they investigate osteoarthritis (OA) and the impact exercise has on it. They concluded that providing the individual had a normal joint void of joint injury, vigorous low impact exercise has

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