Hyper mobile Ehler’s Danlos (EDS) syndrome is a severe form of hyper mobility. The ligaments have increased laxity or slack which results in joints being able to move beyond what is deemed normal range. Frequent dislocation, pain, fatigue and also reduced quality of life are common. I work with people with hyper mobility across the… Read More Joint hyper mobility
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As a parent and as a professional youth sports coach my main aim with my own children and anyone I coach is to ensure that they want to play sport from juniors right through their teen years and into adulthood. As yet, there is no research in Australia, (I am saving that for my PHD)… Read More Why do kids leave sport?
Yes yes, I know bullying happens in any age group, in any place of work, play etc – but I don’t believe that it makes it right or something that we should just accept. Kids play sport for all different reasons – some because they really do love it, some because a friend is, some… Read More Bullying in kids sport.
PSSA stands for Primary School Sports Association, and allows primary school kids to try for teams that play between other schools. The process for selection is one that seems to cause angst at many many public primary schools. Are there any other households out there where PSSA school sport trials cause utter misery? Sport has the ability, unlike… Read More PSSA School Sport
Just a quick post: Along with my business who is also a sport scientist, we designed a multi sport skills program for preschool children in 2006. The program is called Hippity Hop and is run locally on tennis courts. If it was good for kids to specialise as preschooler’s we could have designed a tennis… Read More Why do we want to specialise our young kids in a sport so early?
If I got a $1 for every time a parent said – I don’t know how you work with kids, I would be a very wealthy woman! I would love to work out how many children we have fun with in a year, maybe once I am retired and have the time, I will be… Read More Working with kids – what makes us tick
General rugby shot – not from Grand Finals Father’s day was rugby union Grand Final day for my 12 year old son and the Greens. What a great, fun season they have had and to their credit and their great coaches they were undefeated in their stream. The team that they were in these Grand… Read More Grand Finals – great fun or great nightmares
I have worked with lots of young children who have low muscle tone with a large amount of success. The success is due to the fact that the parents follow the advice given and provide the opportunities for their children to exercise and be active. Children with low muscle tone find exercise and physical activity… Read More Helping young children with low muscle tone
Exercise Physiologist and Physiotherapist Northern Beaches, Sydney 