Speed Agility and Quickness or SAQ as it is more commonly known had its beginnings working in the world of professional sport. With SAQ Training, the power of applied sports science can be put into practice by everybody, from beginner level to elite performance, under the supervision of an expert physio.

What do these terms mean?

Speed is the ability to accelerate in a straight line. If I play a team sport for example soccer in a 50/50 contest when the ball is 10 meters away, the person with the greatest acceleration or speed wins the ball for their team.

Your knees play a big role in many of your daily activities such as walking, getting in & out of cars, using stairs, & getting up from sitting in a chair. If you have problems with them then they can even make it hard to sleep or sit for long periods. Medical research shows that doing the right exercise can help keep your knees healthy by protecting them from injury & can also significantly improve many common problems that you may already have.

Summer is rapidly approaching, and with global climate changes, the summers are getting hotter and what better way to cool down than to hit the beach or pool for a swim!

Unfortunately though, as with many sports there are always associated injuries and in swimming it is often the shoulder. One of the most common conditions that can occur is shoulder impingement.

Lets have a quick chat about the muscles and their function in the shoulder. There are 4 major muscles which make up your rotator cuff. Theses 4 muscles work to stabilise the shoulder as it moves through range.

Getting your bike ready for spring cycling!
As the warm weather comes through there is no greater way to soak up the sun and enjoy spring but on your bike.
Cycling is a great way to get active for the recreational or competitive cyclist whether it be around the bay, through the park with your kids, through the bush or up and down dirt tracks on rugged terrain.

But before you get started here are a couple of tips on how to pedal and set up your bike properly to minimise injury and maximise your effort!

Well, the Aussie ski season is well and truly here now. Fantastic amazing scenery, loads of fun, lots of adrenaline, heaps of speed and unfortunately, lots of knee injuries.

Each year around this time we start getting a steady stream of injuries from skiing, with many of them being knee ligament problems. The information below gives you an easy-to-understand background of why the knee is a problem area for skiing, and a run-down of the common ligaments that are injured. We'll just stick to ligaments for this post, as cartilage & bone injuries are another whole story that we may look at another time.

It's that time of the year again where we put on our cossies and head to the beach or local pools and cool off with a swim. Some of us also get involved in the various Ocean Swims that are put on over the summer, such as the Bondi to Bronte swim that is on this Sunday. Swimming is a fantastic way to exercise for many people however many regular swimmers experience shoulder pain at some point in their lives, and there are several ways to avoid this. But before we get into it lets look at how shoulder injuries can develop.