Kris Scaife explains one key exercise he used to take a patient from being unable to bend and reach past her knees to doubling her sit to stand speed and being able to lift from the ground again, all at the same time as kick starting her return to work process. Enter Kris: The patient […]
A great case study and an exercise you might not have seen for LB pain Read More »
Throughout all exercise physiology programs, whether they’re instantly recognisable or slowly identified over the course of a few sessions, Yellow Flags will impact a rehabilitation program whether you like it or not. Protection is natural After experiencing some form of trauma, the body’s natural, in-built, response mechanism is to minimise further damage and protect the body
Creative thinking in an exercise physiology program to minimise Yellow Flags Read More »
Meet our Brisbane based Exercise Physiologist, Kris Scaife. Kris is a lecturer at the University of Queensland where he teaches Exercise Prescription for Metabolic Conditions, Ageing and Cancer and well as being the go-to EP for the Oncologists at Greenslopes Hospital, Kris also provides his Exercise Physiology services to Specialised Health clients throughout the Brisbane
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If, like me, you find yourself sitting for big chunks of the day to write reports, make phone calls, sit in meetings, drive to appointments etc etc etc, then, like me, your hip flexors are going to be firing up and pulling your pelvis into what we call an anterior pelvic tilt. The hip flexors are in an
I thought that it would be timely considering that it’s starting to get a bit colder, to talk about the benefits of a warm up and how using a warm up can boost performance and essentially speed up a rehab process. The attached video was filmed as a Facebook Live so if you didn’t catch
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Hi guys. Brad here from Specialised Health. I wanted to put this quick little video together because I just did an appointment earlier today, where I was working with a fellow on a knee injury and was talking to him a lot about movement patterns and the importance of using a really sound hip movement pattern when doing squatting movements. I wanted to do this quick video because I’ve been talking to insurance case managers lately about what movement patterns are, what the point of optimising these is, and how that can help somebody improve their function.
Looking at the first example now of this fellow in the video above, you can see the knee angle he started with. If you see the line inserted and you can see where the knees are in front of the toes and essentially moving his centre of gravity over the balls of the feet, what that requires is, therefore, a lot of quadricep activation to raise his body and that, therefore, puts a lot of pressure on the knees.
With the second example, you can see that we moved the centre of gravity a bit further back, so it’s more over the centre of the feet or over the heels. What that then causes is the hips, the glutes, the hamstrings to really be the prime movers through the movement.
Through optimising that movement pattern, this guy can stop putting so much pressure on the knees and create, actually, a lot more force by using the hips. That’ll give him a greater lifting capacity, greater squatting capacity. That’s a really good example of using movement patterns or optimising movement patterns to illicit more function.
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Today I want to talk about one of the big things that EP’s do or should be doing all the time, which is building capacity. I wanted to give the three main points, or three biggest steps, that need to be focused on to build someone’s capacity.
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In this episode, we’re going to review with a claimant who was referred through with shoulder rotator cuff pathologies approximately 12 months post-injury, they had received a lot of physiotherapy, chiropractic treatment and other passive modalities and they were stalling because of ongoing deconditioning and some movement pattern dysfunction.
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Wednesday 16th November 2016 is World COPD Day so our Exercise Physiologist, Todd Robinson, is giving a brief overview of the condition, how to recognise signs and symptoms of the illness and how an Exercise Physiologist may be able to assist someone suffering from the condition.
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When clients have a reduced range of movement as a result of their injury but we need them to stay as active as possible, we need to find ways that they can stay functional and keep their muscles moving without risking flare-ups or re-injuries.
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