

Ankle Sprains & Lower Limb Injury: Can We Identify Those At Risk?
During the late 90’s and early 2000’s in the USA, the cost of treating ankle sprains was estimated to be $US2 billion dollars per year...
Mick Hughes
Mar 8, 2017


8 Simple Ways To Keep You Exercising in The New Year!
As the hangovers clear on yet another festive season, I thought that I would get in early and write a blog on New Year's resolutions....
Mick Hughes
Dec 26, 2016


Return to Sport Following ACL Reconstruction in Young Athletes
I wrote a blog recently called When can I return to sport after ACL surgery?. It summarised two recent articles by Grindem et al (2016)...
Mick Hughes
Oct 29, 2016


Sports Medicine Australia Conference 2016: A Summary Of The Best Bits.
For the last 4 days I have been at the Sports Medicine Australia Conference here in Melbourne. I thoroughly enjoy the SMA Conference. It...
Mick Hughes
Oct 16, 2016


Inside the High Performance Unit: Q&A with Brynley Abad from the Queensland Firebirds
I’ve been writing about sports injury and performance for a few months now, so I thought I would change my tact for a moment. Rather than...
Mick Hughes
Sep 15, 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...
Mick Hughes
Aug 16, 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,...
Mick Hughes
Aug 13, 2016


Do injury rates effect team performance?
Last week I blogged about individual performances in team sports following ACL reconstruction. As you may remember, there were examples...
Mick Hughes
Jul 27, 2016


Sport Performance Following ACL Injury
I’ve written quite a bit in the past about ACL injury; at-risk age groups, risk factors, when is it safe to return to sport following ACL...
Mick Hughes
Jul 18, 2016


"Pokemon Go-itis": A new injury classification?
It was only a few years ago that the world was struck down with "Nintendo Wii-itis". Now with the world wide phenomenon Pokémon Go app...
Mick Hughes
Jul 16, 2016





































