Ability – not disability

Our team here at Vector Health and Performance pride themselves on creating an environment that is educated, open minded, non judgemental and most of all dedicated to ensuring each and every individuals success in reaching and achieving goals. We truely believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn new skills and be provided with

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We want to find 20 people who want to challenge themselves to change their body and training mindset!

Simon Wissmann, Exercise Physiologist talks about his passion for training for muscle mass gain, and some of the issues that we have come across when people are trying to grow muscle mass. One of the things that drives us nuts as professionals is the amount of absolute nonsense that is published on social media about

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Endometriosis – Symptoms

Endometriosis affects many Australian women.   Miche Hansen, Senior Physiotherapist with a specific Interest in Womens’ Health Physiotherapy.   From the Endometriosis Australia website, here are some commonly seen symptoms of Endometriosis. Some of the symptoms correlate with other conditions, so that is why sometimes Endometriosis is not diagnosed, as generally practitioners may look for

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Back pain – do scans help me?

I have back pain – do I need an xray or scan? Following on from our article last week by Hamish Ashton, Senior Physiotherapist with #teamvhap on back pain here are some facts on whether scans are beneficial or needed in most cases. Current guidelines for low back pain recommend against routine use of plain

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Rachel Warcon demonstrating bodyweight squat technique at Vector Health

5 ways to improve squat strength

Is squatting so hard?  If there was ever an exercise that created a divide between coach and athlete, it would have to be the squat! From a mechanic point of view, it involves every joint in the body in either “creating movement” or “stabilising movement” context.  It does not let you hide any injury, or

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Is back pain bad?

Back pain and movement For many years health professionals have been educating people to be careful about how they move especially with regard to their back. This has inferred that the back is weak and has a poor tolerance to activity. We now know that this advice is not necessarily correct.  Your back is a

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How Sleep can help Weight Loss

So, there are a lot of myths around about helping people when in weight loss phases or training cycles.  Simon Wissmann, our Accredited Exercise Physiologist has put some of the science that sits behind sleep and weight loss! Weight loss: why not sleeping enough stops you from losing more Munchies One recent study showed that

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Do you have shoulder problems?

The Shoulder The shoulder is undoubtedly the greatest joint in the human body.  The range of motion it must produce to be effective in all the different planes of movement is phenomenal. BUT, like all good things, the shoulder renders itself to this mobility not lasting if you do not look after the joint! Many

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