One of the best known acronyms in sports medicine is RICE. It has long been the stock standard advice given to anyone who has suffered an acute (new) injury, standing for Rest Ice Compression Elevation. But studies prove that total rest is rarely, if ever, the correct management for an injury and the acronym no […]

Time Trial (TT) bikes have always been somewhat scorned in the cycling community. If you roll up to many group rides on a TT bike and you will often be met with grunts of disapproval.  ‘Real’ cyclists only ride them a week before a Time Trial race and they are much happier discussing weight than […]

Everyone is talking about the new gym studios known as F45. So here is a quick snapshot on what it is, and our take on it’s usefulness and safety.   What is F45? F45 stands for Functional 45 minutes. It’s a high intensity workout that changes every day. All equipment can be pushed to the […]

Undoubtedly, many of you that read this will have had a running related injury at some point in your lives, statistics show that at least 10% of marathon runners will sustain an injury in a year, and that figure rises to 65% in ultra-marathon runners! Now, I am also pretty sure that when you’ve sought […]

The Hippocratic Oath is a pledge that all doctors take when they are first registered to practice medicine. It includes the well known and oft-repeated, “First do no harm”, from the Greek ‘Primum non nocere’. This is certainly a good thing for doctors and physiotherapists to have in the forefront of our minds when we […]

Wolff’s Law was developed by a brilliant German anatomist and surgeon, Julius Wolff (1836–1902). It states that bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed. If loading on a bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over time to become stronger to resist that type of loading. […]

Our bodies are really just two separate halves desperately trying to align themselves as one. From our right and left sided hemispheres of our brains controlling different sides of our body through to our limbs, one side can turn out quite different to the other. Our brain is constantly working to try and keep both […]

Looking through fitness magazines and websites, there is certainly no shortage of information for the runners out there when it comes to performance and injury prevention, however, our other love at Asia Physio; Cycling, seems to be getting ignored, even though the rate of cyclists (and cycling related injuries) are growing almost as quickly as […]

As physiotherapists we have a great relationship and work closely with many surgeons. But despite this, much of what we do is trying to put these guys out of work. When musculoskeletal pain or injury strikes there is a relatively narrow range of treatment options. It often comes down to surgery or physio. And as […]

What does a triathlete whom trains daily and a 12 hour-a-day office worker have in common? Both can have stress, both can feel pain and both need to breathe! On average we breathe up to 30,000 times each day, when you think about it that way, it’s probably something we should concentrate on doing well, […]