Mick Hughes:
Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist
M. Sports Physio, B. Physio, B.Ex. Sci.

With all these amazing Olympic performances going on at the moment, I frequently get the urge to put my 18 month-old daughter into her swimmers and take her down to the nearest pool to start her Olympic training to be a world class swimmer by 14, a multi-millionaire by 20, and early retirement for Mrs Hughes and I by 55. As much as I joke about this, as a physiotherapist I have seen first-hand many unnecessarily injured children who have been pushed into one sport, too aggres

Ahhhh the Olympic Games.. The time of year where elite athletes get to become walking billboards to the masses for all kinds of products, including pseudo-science treatment modalities. Earlier this week, I gave my fairly strong opinion about “cupping”, and now I turn my attention to Kinesio-Tape (KT). Look I get it that elite athletes are looking for "1'ers" over their competition to win gold, but can someone please explain what 1% the taping method in the above photo is addi