I’m a bit of a research magpie. I pick up shiny looking articles and store them away – just in case! My nest was getting a little crowded, so I spent most of last week tidying up my inbox. There was a bit of rubbish in there, but a few things I did consider interesting […]
I came across this term at a conference recently – a term I hadn’t encountered before. Sure, I recognised its meaning and valued the concept, but I hadn’t thought about it in exactly those terms. Whatever your work is as an exercise professional, relationships are a crucial part of practice whether you deliberately notice of them or […]
Risks & management “…it’s just over 2 years now and I’m still feeling the effects of it. Lot[s] of headaches, [a] lot of fatigue – really sensitive to bright light. [My] memory is just absolutely shot to pieces…”Retired professional rugby international RETIRED RUGBY PLAYER Interview with P Handcock, 2011 The risks associated with concussion I’m […]
“I need my brain. It’s where I keep all my best stuff.” Jenny Lawson, (Furiously Happy, 2015, p.88) Concussion has been thrust squarely into the public spotlight due to the media’s obsession with a suggested link between concussion and premature neurodegenerative conditions and a compromised quality of life. These days, sports concussions and head injuries […]
So much information!!! Could I have been that arrogant, that stupid? Turns out yes I could – in spades! In fairness, I’d been raised on a steady educational dietwhere knowledge was king; knowledge was power. It never occurred to me that it could be any other way. Certainly, none of my teachers or lecturers had […]
I recently downloaded a PDF ‘Osteoporosis and You’ from the Osteoporosis New Zealand website. Fifteen pages of content, with barely half a page of non-specific exercise information, yet they somehow managed 2 and a half pages of dietary guidance for optimal bone health! I shouldn’t be surprised, but……of course, I still am! Disappointed, disheartened! I’m not […]
The magic sponge Some of you (actually probably very few now that I think about it) may remember when on-field injury treatment was a bucket of water and a sponge. It was a bit of a standing joke in sport, probably because it appeared to miraculously work 99% of the time – hence the term […]
Possibly very little, yet it seems that the training mode, philosophy, cult – call it what you will, provokes some extreme responses in exercise or health professionals. Full disclosure, while I haven’t had any direct involvement with, or particular knowledge of Crossfit™ (CF), my morning runs often took me past CF groups some knock-off versions, […]
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an offshoot from a movement within medicine and health services (Evidence-based Medicine, EBM), that called for clinical decisions to be based on the best available research knowledge and critical scientific evidence. The origins of EBM are vague but are usually attributed to health researcher Archie Cochrane (1972), who complained that medical practice […]