Identifying a hamstring injury typically involves recognising symptoms and physical sensations. Firstly, one of the most common signs is a sudden, sharp pain in the back of the thigh. This pain often occurs during activities that involve running, sprinting, or sudden changes in direction, which put significant stress on the hamstring muscles. You might also feel or hear a popping sensation during injury. Immediately after the incident, swelling and tenderness in the hamstring area may become noticeable, with some individuals experiencing bruising around the injured site.

What is the most common Wrist Injury from lifting you ask? Maybe you’ve been suffering through some recent workouts with wrist pain that’s come from nowhere and limited your ability to catch weight or hold weight in the front rack position, use a kettlebell, do an overhead squat or a handstand hold? Well, let us help you work out what might be happening with your wrist.

Returning home from deployment or leaving the Defence Force after many years of service can be a truly difficult time for many service men and women. A convoluted system, and time delays in processing can put extra strain on an already challenging situation. Here at Evolutio, we are well placed as the number one DVA Physio clinic to provide a location that can help ease your mind.

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Also warning: rant.

A mixed grip deadlift or an alternate grip deadlift is when you hold onto the barbell with one hand in a supinated/underhand position (palm facing out) and the other in an overhand position (back of the hand facing out).

It can make deadlifting feel lighter or more manageable on the hands by sandwiching the bar between the opposing fists with an alternate grip.

I’m now officially (and always have been) the oldest person working at Evolutio. Safe to say I’ve been around the physio block a couple of times and have seen and worked with a range of peeps, made a few mistakes, learnt from those mistakes and had a few wins too.

Why is it so important to continue strength training during the season? I’ll give you 2 good reasons: Improved performances and reduced injury risk.

If you think about it, the less you get injured, the more you can train. The more you train (smartly) the better you perform. Especially in team sports, the less players that are out injured, the stronger the team. When the coach has the full squad to choose from, especially the best players available, the more likely you get the results.

Here are the untold reasons why you are given rehab exercises and why you should do them!

1) Mechanotransduction

Mechanotransduction describes the process in which your cells convert mechanical loading into cell responses. The cellular responses then promote structural change - thus when load is used therapeutically, it can help with repair and remodelling of your tendons, muscles, cartilage and bone (Khan & Scott, 2009)

The kettlebell swing is a staple exercise of CrossFit training or everyday strength and conditioning work; one that places great demands on the muscles of our posterior chain.

More specifically, a study submitted through the British Journal of Sports medicine in 2013 noted that kettlebell swings use predominately hamstring muscles, however they actually target semitendinosus, the medial, inner hamstring over the lateral biceps femoris, with higher levels of Electromyographic (EMG) activity noted through the skeletal muscles.