Patellar tendinopathy affects less than 1% of people in general, but about 20% of athletes. It is most common in players of jumping sports.
A ruptured Achilles tendon occurs 5 times more commonly in men than women. It is most common in people aged 30 to 50 years old who participate in occasional sport, occurring in about one in 15,000 people each year.
About 2-3% of the population has a scoliosis. In the vast majority of people it is mild and has no impact on their likelihood of back pain at any stage of life. In 1985 Lamar Gant, complete with his scoliosis, became the first man to ever dead lift 5 times their own body weight. Usain Bolt has one leg more than 1cm shorter than the other and was also born with scoliosis. So the world's fastest man and strongest man have scoliosis.
Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) occurs in between 2 to 5% of the population. It affects women 4 times more commonly than men and is most common in people aged 40 to 60. Up to 20% of diabetic people will develop a frozen shoulder at some point in life.
The ankle is the most commonly sprained joint in the body, and once it has happened once it's far more likely to happen again without proper rehab.
The jaw joint is one of the busiest in the body — moving up to 2,000 times a day as you talk, chew and yawn, and probably more for the chatty people. They sometimes get sore and painfully clicky - physiotherapy can usually fix this!
The human body has 360 joints, which support our shape and make movement possible. Most of them move, but not the ones in the skull!
A whole class of headaches- called cervicogenic- originate from the upper 3 neck joints. This type of headache is often very successfully treated with specific physiotherapy techniques- that we do here!
The ACL that stabilises your knee is no thicker than your little finger — yet it holds the largest joint in your body together. It also gets thicker over the course of a footy season, responding to strain on it like most other tissues in the body.
There are more than 20,000 knee anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions performed annually in Australia, the highest per capita rate in the world. After ACL reconstruction, about 80% of people return to playing some form of sport. However, after 2 years only about 65% have returned to the level of sport they were playing when they injured their knee. Help us let you be in the 65%!
Walking downstairs sends roughly four times your body weight through each knee — which is why it is often more difficult and painful than walking upstairs for people with a sore knee. Sore knees need stronger muscles supporting them!
Groin pain in footballers can have multiple causes at the same time- the hip joint, adductors, lower abdomen tissues, pubic bones, hip flexors, lower back. Up to 65% of footballers will feel groin pain at least once in a season and almost half will experience it at some point in the career. If you have groin pain it needs to be assessed carefully and diagnosed properly.
A lot of joints are wearing out in Australia... there are about 65,000 knee and almost 60,000 hip replacements in Australia every year.
A strained hamstring is the most common injury in running sports — and the ones rushed back too early are much more likely to injure again. If you hurt your hamstring, get it rehabbed properly.
Lower back pain in kids is very different to adult lower back pain. Adolescents who experience more than 30 consecutive days of lower back pain are 4 times more likely to develop chronic lower back pain as an adult. Managing lower back pain in young people is one of our favourites.
Adults have 206 bones in the body, with more than half in the hands and feet. The most commonly broken bones are in the arms, accounting for almost half of all adults' broken bones. The clavicle (collarbone) is the most commonly broken bone among children.
Feet are busy places- a quarter of all the bones in your body live below your ankles — each foot packs 26 bones, 33 joints and over 100 muscles, ligaments and tendons.
The Achilles tendon is the thickest and strongest tendon in the body, withstanding forces about 10 times your body weight when sprinting or jumping. Most ruptures are managed without surgery these days.
Up to 90% of people will experience low back pain at some point in their lifetime, with about 8% of the global population experiencing low back pain at any moment in time. About 50% of people who experience an episode of low back pain will have another episode within a single year. It is the 2nd leading cause of disease burden overall in Australia and comprises about 25% of our patients at Aspire.
The strongest muscle in the body for its size is the masseter in the jaw- the one that generates force for clamping the teeth together with up to 90 kg of pressure on the molars.
Patellar tendinopathy affects less than 1% of people in general, but about 20% of athletes. It is most common in players of jumping sports.
A ruptured Achilles tendon occurs 5 times more commonly in men than women. It is most common in people aged 30 to 50 years old who participate in occasional sport, occurring in about one in 15,000 people each year.
About 2-3% of the population has a scoliosis. In the vast majority of people it is mild and has no impact on their likelihood of back pain at any stage of life. In 1985 Lamar Gant, complete with his scoliosis, became the first man to ever dead lift 5 times their own body weight. Usain Bolt has one leg more than 1cm shorter than the other and was also born with scoliosis. So the world's fastest man and strongest man have scoliosis.
Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) occurs in between 2 to 5% of the population. It affects women 4 times more commonly than men and is most common in people aged 40 to 60. Up to 20% of diabetic people will develop a frozen shoulder at some point in life.
The ankle is the most commonly sprained joint in the body, and once it has happened once it's far more likely to happen again without proper rehab.
The jaw joint is one of the busiest in the body — moving up to 2,000 times a day as you talk, chew and yawn, and probably more for the chatty people. They sometimes get sore and painfully clicky - physiotherapy can usually fix this!
The human body has 360 joints, which support our shape and make movement possible. Most of them move, but not the ones in the skull!
A whole class of headaches- called cervicogenic- originate from the upper 3 neck joints. This type of headache is often very successfully treated with specific physiotherapy techniques- that we do here!
The ACL that stabilises your knee is no thicker than your little finger — yet it holds the largest joint in your body together. It also gets thicker over the course of a footy season, responding to strain on it like most other tissues in the body.
There are more than 20,000 knee anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions performed annually in Australia, the highest per capita rate in the world. After ACL reconstruction, about 80% of people return to playing some form of sport. However, after 2 years only about 65% have returned to the level of sport they were playing when they injured their knee. Help us let you be in the 65%!
Walking downstairs sends roughly four times your body weight through each knee — which is why it is often more difficult and painful than walking upstairs for people with a sore knee. Sore knees need stronger muscles supporting them!
Groin pain in footballers can have multiple causes at the same time- the hip joint, adductors, lower abdomen tissues, pubic bones, hip flexors, lower back. Up to 65% of footballers will feel groin pain at least once in a season and almost half will experience it at some point in the career. If you have groin pain it needs to be assessed carefully and diagnosed properly.
A lot of joints are wearing out in Australia... there are about 65,000 knee and almost 60,000 hip replacements in Australia every year.
A strained hamstring is the most common injury in running sports — and the ones rushed back too early are much more likely to injure again. If you hurt your hamstring, get it rehabbed properly.
Lower back pain in kids is very different to adult lower back pain. Adolescents who experience more than 30 consecutive days of lower back pain are 4 times more likely to develop chronic lower back pain as an adult. Managing lower back pain in young people is one of our favourites.
Adults have 206 bones in the body, with more than half in the hands and feet. The most commonly broken bones are in the arms, accounting for almost half of all adults' broken bones. The clavicle (collarbone) is the most commonly broken bone among children.
Feet are busy places- a quarter of all the bones in your body live below your ankles — each foot packs 26 bones, 33 joints and over 100 muscles, ligaments and tendons.
The Achilles tendon is the thickest and strongest tendon in the body, withstanding forces about 10 times your body weight when sprinting or jumping. Most ruptures are managed without surgery these days.
Up to 90% of people will experience low back pain at some point in their lifetime, with about 8% of the global population experiencing low back pain at any moment in time. About 50% of people who experience an episode of low back pain will have another episode within a single year. It is the 2nd leading cause of disease burden overall in Australia and comprises about 25% of our patients at Aspire.
The strongest muscle in the body for its size is the masseter in the jaw- the one that generates force for clamping the teeth together with up to 90 kg of pressure on the molars.
