So you have hurt your back. You go to see a Physiotherapist. You are lying on the treatment table and the physio is taking notes on your history.

Now imagine this: The physiotherapist inadvertently drops his pen on the floor. He bends down to retrieve it. A few seconds go by. Then he taps you [...]

Back pain is a very common problem. The other problem is what is the best thing to do about it. Go to the hospital and wait for a panadol and a pat on the head? Or maybe to the Physiotherapist with the good looking receptionist? The Chiropractic-Osteopathic-Kineseologist with the most letters after his name, or [...]

You have just pulled off an unbelievable intercept and are running down a footy field full speed about to score a length-of-the-field try when you feel a searing pain in the back of your leg and all of a sudden the 15 metres to the try line is somewhat unattainable.  You have torn your hamstring, [...]

I have decided to write this month’s Beast article on an injury that is very close to my heart, or should I say close to my calf. I have had to spend the last three weeks sitting on the bench at netball watching my team play, due to the fact that I spent three days [...]

What do Liz Ellis, Stephen Hoiles and Andrew Johns all have in common? Apart from being fully minted, and majorly famous athletes at the top level of their chosen sports, they have all been unlucky enough to tear their anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) and have had reconstructive knee surgery in order to return to playing [...]

With spring in the air and trees and flowers blossoming, take a minute to think of those poor critters who suffer from hay fever. Surely this time of the year must be a veritable hell-on-earth for them. Irritating pollens that come from trees, flowers and grasses get ‘up their noses,’ and leave them absolutely unwilling [...]