We’ve had the privilege of sharing a discussion we had with Physiotherapist Chris Allan about Stretching! It’s an interesting topic where the aim is to stimulate some thinking about WHY and HOW we stretch and what we THINK is really happening in our body by doing this sometimes ARCHAIC, sometimes USEFUL technique! Chris is a...Read More

Ask a healthcare practitioner what their thoughts on Crossfit are… then ask them if they’ve ever tried it! In my experience, there’s not many positive comments around when talking to my fellow health professionals about Crossfit (in South Africa at least), yet many of the nay-sayers are knocking it before giving it a try. As...Read More

An article I read in the PhysioSA journal from February has provided the inspiration for my first blog. The main theme of the article was a call for physiotherapists to improve our treatments using more optimal load management strategies. This is due to our profession being under threat by other qualified exercise-based professions. It was...Read More

I’ve just hit the big 30 – when I reflect on my professional career, including my student days over the last 10 years, there are so many lessons learnt that have placed me in my current situation. I’ve been the junior, the always working weekends, I’ve worked with coaches, Dr’s sport teams in a host...Read More

You’ve got goals – you want to run your first marathon, 21km or 10km – you’d like to do a 5 day hike in the Drakensberg, you want to ride the Cape Argus Cycle tour next year – play touch-rugby with your friends from work twice a week… we all have these goals or have...Read More

I’ve been very open with documenting my journey with intermittent fasting over the last 6 months on my social media (@enhanced physio), and I’ve become increasingly aware of more people trying it and asking to share my experiences with it. I’m slightly hesitant though and need to frame this very carefully. Not long ago, South...Read More

It’s no secret that the theme of this blog keeps stretching beyond what’s conventionally painted as “physiotherapy” or even ‘health-care” – which is good (in my opinion). It’s my profession, and my industry, but I am also running a business, having life experiences and all these parts make up the bigger whole so they almost...Read More

I’m ending my first year of this blog by almost going full circle – I’ve covered this topic in previous pieces (https://www.enhancedphysio.co.za/blog-1/whose-job-is-it-anyway-a-physio-s-perspective) and (https://www.enhancedphysio.co.za/blog-1/health-care-or-sick-care) and have gotten large amounts of feedback and comments from readers weighing in with their stories and experiences, it’s something that we really do need to speak about… Our profession is...Read More

In the modern era of sports, teams and team sport clinicians are always searching for interventions that may positively influence individual or team performances to achieve optimal results. One variable that has been in the spotlight in recent years has been predicting injuries in sport and specifically, preventing injury through the screening of athletes. In...Read More

As a rugby fan, and field side rugby physio, this is a topic that we look at with great fascination. We follow the head injury assessments, watch the viral videos of Sonny Bill-Williams, making consecutive tackles after appearing to be knocked out without the gravity of the severity of sports related concussion (SRC). SRC can...Read More