A question we get asked frequently is why this is happening. It could be for many reasons, one of the more common ones is called femoroacetabular impingement, basically what this means is the bone and the socket where your hip and leg meet, there can be rubbing of the bone which is where the pain […]
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What is it? Basically it is the knee dropping in sideways. You can usually see this when someone is doing squats, lunges and any sort of gait pattern. Why does it happen? It can be for a couple of reasons. Sometimes your abductors can be too tight or overactive, these are the muscles running on the inside
So we have found we get a lot of questions about what a hamstring is and how it works, I asked Bridget Nash our Exercise Physiologist if she could run us through these questions so hopefully, you will get some answers! Using Jonny, our anatomically correct skeleton, to demonstrate where our pelvis is and our
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Week 3 of our First Steps Mums and Bubs class! Slowly working our way through different stretches and exercises, we loved seeing the small signs of progress we are seeing already! We were lucky enough to have Janelle Day, a Dietician, come into the class at the end where we were able to be educated
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Big congrats to all the Mums and Bubs that had their first class last week! You all did an awesome job and aced the session! Can’t wait for next week!
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Finding you’re having trouble balancing? Fumbling around when getting up or can’t seem to keep yourself on a skateboard? Come and see Aaron and find out how you can improve your balance! Everyone deserves to have proper balance in their day to day life or for their respective sports. It can have a HUGE impact
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**WAKING UP WITH A SORE NECK?** Are you waking up with a sore neck? Feeling restless throughout the neck? Bad mood following this interferring with your day? We can help! Lauren Kloppers, one of our Physiotherapists here at Vector Health, talks us through why you may be experiencing this! Some important points to remember is:–
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Meet Aaron I have had experience working with various people including disability work with the Disabled Wintersport Australia teaching people how to shred the slopes through adaptive skiing and snowboarding, along with fixing those who end up shredding a little too hard and end up second best with the slopes result in consultations with orthopedic
These exercises are for you! Watch as one of our Physiotherapists, Lauren Kloppers, shows us some simple techniques we can use while sitting at our desks to help relieve or prevent neck pain!
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Welcoming our newest Physiotherapist Lauren! Here is a little insight into her journey. Hello! My name is Lauren, I was born and raised in Cape Town South Africa where I’ve completed my BSc Physiotherapy degree in 2015 at the University of Western Cape. I started my physiotherapy career in 2016 working in a local community
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Hamstring Strength – and some information about Hamstrings and their importance! “People tend to ask why do we need our hamstrings and what are their role within the body.” What are the Hamstring/s? The hamstring muscle is built up of 3 muscles, biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus. These muscles work together to produce and control
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Why do we test? 1. Provide objective feedback at the start, during and the end of a training cycle. 2. Where necessary, provide feedback that helps benchmark against athletes that you are going to compete against. At Vector Health, we test in two ways. We test objectively, so measures such as vertical jump, speed, agility,
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