What You Need to Know: An ACL injury is common in athletes of all levels but is more common among girls than boys. An ACL injury is especially common in activities and sports with a lot of cutting, pivoting, jumping, and change of direction. Examples include football, hurling, soccer, basketball, and rugby to name a …
Osgood-Schlatter’s disease is not serious in terms of it does not mean your child is damaging your child’s knee. However, at the Pain and Performance Clinic, we think knee pain is serious if it means it stops your child from doing the things they love like playing sports or even playing with their siblings/friends.
Do You Suffer From Knee Pain? Are you really into exercise and wondering why you have achy knees. This blog may give you a better understanding as to what’s going on. For people who are really into the gym, fitness and sport. How we move becomes more and more important. When it comes to lower …
Why does the ACL suddenly tear? A question often asked is why the ACL tears in manoeuvres that the sportsperson has completed successfully many times in the past. The sportsperson could be off balance, be pushed/nudged by an opponent, have adopted an unusually wide foot position. Inadequate muscle protection, poor neuromuscular control, fatigue …
