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Posted at 04:52h in Uncategorized

One of the best known acronyms in sports medicine is RICE. It has long been the stock standard advice given to anyone who has suffered an acute (new) injury, standing for Rest Ice Compression Elevation. But studies prove that total rest is rarely, if ever, the...

Posted at 08:27h in Uncategorized

Pssst! If you're looking for our latest blog "RICE stopped by POLICE" you will find it here  Time Trial (TT) bikes have always been somewhat scorned in the cycling community. If you roll up to many group rides on a TT bike and you will often...

Posted at 06:30h in Uncategorized

Everyone is talking about the new gym studios known as F45. So here is a quick snapshot on what it is, and our take on it’s usefulness and safety.   What is F45? F45 stands for Functional 45 minutes. It’s a high intensity workout that changes every day. All...

Posted at 03:31h in Uncategorized

Undoubtedly, many of you that read this will have had a running related injury at some point in your lives, statistics show that at least 10% of marathon runners will sustain an injury in a year, and that figure rises to 65% in ultra-marathon runners! Now,...

Posted at 05:17h in Uncategorized

The Hippocratic Oath is a pledge that all doctors take when they are first registered to practice medicine. It includes the well known and oft-repeated, "First, do no harm", from the Greek ‘Primum non nocere’. This is certainly a good principle for doctors and physiotherapists to...

Posted at 04:23h in Uncategorized

Our bodies are really just two separate halves desperately trying to align themselves as one. From our right and left sided hemispheres of our brains controlling different sides of our body through to our limbs, one side can turn out quite different to the other....

Posted at 05:06h in Uncategorized

Looking through fitness magazines and websites, there is certainly no shortage of information for the runners out there when it comes to performance and injury prevention, however, our other love at Asia Physio; Cycling, seems to be getting ignored, even though the rate of cyclists...

Posted at 14:00h in Uncategorized

As physiotherapists we have a great relationship and work closely with many surgeons. But despite this, much of what we do is trying to put these guys out of work. When musculoskeletal pain or injury strikes there is a relatively narrow range of treatment options....

Posted at 04:49h in Uncategorized

In the die-hard ski community it has been said that you’re not a real skier until you have ruptured your anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). While this might be over-stepping the mark a little, there is no doubt that the rate of ACL ruptures in skiers...

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