Importance of Sleep for Recovery – Advice from Sports Physiotherapist Tim Bass
Sleep is probably the easiest and most important aspect of recovery, whether this is from injury or after physical activity. When you sleep there are a number of very important processes that occur in our body. As we sleep our body uses this time to rest and repair damaged tissues such as muscle. When we…
Hills Integrated Pain Team – June 2015 Update
It has been a busy past few months for Annie, Joy and Tim at the Hills Integrated Pain Team (HIPT). In late March we all attended Pain Adelaide, a multidisciplinary state pain conference – held once a year. This year, we attended presentations from international and interstate speakers on topics such as: pain medications, pacing, graded activity,…
Overuse Tendon Injuries in Sport (Tendonopathy) my Physio SA Adelaide
What you need to know about tendon injuries Current thinking has replaced the term tendonitis (“inflammation”) with a spectrum of tendonopathy (“cellular degradation”). The pain often occurs due to compression of internal and external tendon structures, leading to cellular damage and even death, not local inflammation. We also now understand that tendon tissue requires loading…
Sports Trainers Advice: Finger Injury my Physio SA Adelaide
Finger injury advice by my Physio SA for sports trainers Sports Physiotherapist, Tim Bass, discusses finger injury to Adelaide Hills sports trainers. Tim talks about diagnosis of finger injuries including; fractures, dislocations and ligament sprains. Finger fractures are hard to diagnose without an XR. As much many fractures are missed. This can lead to ongoing…
Vi Move by Dorsavi – How Physiotherapists can Tailor a Solution for your Low Back Pain
Vi Move improves the way you move and function Low Back Pain and Vi Move Assessing how you move using Vi Move can prevent injuries and help us understand why you have injured yourself in first place and what we can do to fix your injury. Click here to view the A Current Affair news…
Physiotherapist Tim Bass Explains Load Management in Sport
What is load management? The management of training load (intensity, time & type) is an important concept at all times for athletes and people who are actively engaging in regular exercise. For uninjured athletes concepts such as periodisation (a planned training calendar of low and high intensity periods) is important both in improving performance…
