Do you have a good knee and a bad knee? Do your knees snap, crackle and pop? Do you ever wish you could walk for longer without pain or not be worried about how your knees will feel in the morning if you were living your life to the fullest?

Knee pain is a very common c...

FACT OR FICTION FRIDAY || All rotator cuffs tears need surgery..

Answer: FICTION. The devil is in the detail!

The rotator cuff is a group of 4 muscles that aid in providing stability through range for the shoulder joint, particularly overhead. There are multiple risk fac...

FACT OR FICTION FRIDAY || Overuse injuries need rest and are because I'm doing too much.

ANSWER: FICTION (Mostly - stay with us here) 🙊

Do you keep getting injured when you get back into your usual training after a period of rest 😤? The first graph shows a 65-day cycle...

SUMMARY:

• Stingers are essentially a tractioning of the neural system

• This can cause pain, movement and sensation changes

• Chronic traction to the nervous system can have a cumulative effect on nerve function

• The more damage to the nerve, the more serio...

FACT OR FICTION FRIDAY || I'm no spring chicken so I should no longer lift weights, or I'm too old to start! 🏋️ ❌

Answer: FICTION 🙊

Progressive strength training in the elderly (>60 years) is efficient, even with higher intensities, to improve bone health, pack on mu...

Do you have a 'good' and 'bad' shoulder? Have you been putting up with that grumbly shoulder for weeks, months or even years?  Shoulder pain can but a real dampener on your activity levels - but it doesn't need to! 

We at Praxis, pride ourselves on taking the time...

FACT OR FICTION FRIDAY || A scan will always give me an accurate diagnosis for my knee pain...

Answer: FICTION 🙊

“Osteoarthritis” is a common term that gets used by our patients as an explanation of their knee pain. But is this always the case 🤔?

🔍In a recent syste...

Are you a weekend warrior who is plagued by injury or an aspiring athlete trying to find that extra 1% or somewhere in between? We know how frustrating it can sitting on the side lines and not being able to be involved in the things that make you happy. All the Praxis...

Sharp catch of pain? Ongoing aches? Trouble getting out of bed or with long car rides? Stiff and sore? Referred pain into you legs?

If you've experienced any of these symptoms recently you are not alone. Up to 80% of us will experience various types of lower back pain...

SUMMARY

• Shin splints are essentially an overuse injury 

• Numerous factors contribute to symptoms but mainly involving the poor control of force through the lower limbs

• Important to stop symptoms to avoid developing stress fractures

• Corrective stre...

FACT OR FICTION || Preseason training will help to reduce my injury risk next season.

Answer - FACT

With preseason training just around the corner, this blog is a timely reminder that turning up to preseason training consistently will give athletes the best chance of bei...

FACT OR FICTION FRIDAY || I’ve been doing my exercises for two weeks religiously and I’m no stronger! This will never work!

ANSWER: Fiction

How long does it take to have strength gains? The answer is actually in two parts. Increasing muscle size (hypertrophy) takes a min...