Mick Hughes
- Aug 16, 2016
Early Sport Specialisation and Injury Risk: Let kids be kids.
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
Mick Hughes
- Aug 13, 2016
Kinesio-Tape: You can't band-aid a faulty training plan
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
