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What is Hypermobility? Hypermobilty refers to excessive joint laxity, or a lack of integrity of the tissues that support the joint and prevent excess movement. This can be congenital or developed in individual joints following trauma or injury. It is more commonly seen in women and younger people. Many dancers and gymnasts have hypermobile joints. […]

Optimal bicep training: How many sets per week do you need? A recent study investigated this by testing 3 weekly set protocols in trained subjects. Groups preformed either 9,18 or 27 sets of bicep exercises per week for 6 weeks. What they found was that there was an inverted U response. The study showed optimal

Girl: “I don’t want to lift weights because I don’t want to be bulky”… Rubbish. The myth that if a girl lifts weights she will suddenly look like a highly chemically enhanced professional female bodybuilder has been around for an age but it is simply not true. Here is why. Testosterone By far the most

The PINC Program is a physiotherapy based rehabilitation and fitness program for men and women with cancer. The benefits of regular exercise and healthy lifestyle practices for cancer survivors are well reported and yet many survivors are insufficiently active. Miche Hansen – Senior Physiotherapist has completed the required training and is now a PINC Certified

When you are exercising at moderate to high intensities the muscles demand blood to supply energy to exercise. The body therefore shuts down blood flow to other regions to allow an increased flow to the muscles.   In the heat our cooling mechanism is managed by increasing blood flow to the skin so the body

If you have been diagnosed with a sports concussion the first thought will often be ‘when can I return to play?   Just about all major sports now have guidelines for return to play. These are based on an international set of guidelines, established by a very large group of experts on concussion. Every couple

So, you have a program and you are going along well, and all of a sudden, you are experiencing a lot of frustration as you cannot break through what you think is a plateau in strength. You are pushing really hard, your are trying to lift more each week and every time you come to

Concussion is defined as an injury to the brain that temporally affects brain function. It is diagnoses through a combination of a history of receiving a jarring or knock to the head or body, and the occurrence of certain signs and symptoms.   Signs are what we see – a dazed look, poor balance and