Mick Hughes
Dec 26, 2016
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
Oct 29, 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 16, 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
Sep 15, 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
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...
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,...
Mick Hughes
Jul 27, 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 18, 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 16, 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 10, 2016
Sleep: How It Can Decrease Injury and Improve Performance.
It’s a little bit ironic that I write this blog about the negative effects of poor sleep quality on injury, illness and sports...
