August 2021 – You Belong Here
We know that you choose to come to our practice and we don’t take that for granted.
We try hard to make sure we not only meet your expectations -
we want to exceed them.
In this newsletter, there is lots of great content such as:
10 tips to stay ACTIVE in Winter
Cycling Assessments
Support Team Profile – Sarah B
AUGUST 2021 Active giving project – SMA Foundation
CSU 4th year Physiotherapy student – Grace Kingham
Olympics – A master class in how to wipe out
Goal Setting and “Failing” – New blog
Hooray! Our cycling assessments are here and they are booking out quickly.
With the sun finally starting to show itself again it's time to get in quick and book your assessment with Joe to get your bike and body firing for the upcoming season. Our bookings run over an hour and a half on a Friday afternoon and will cover your bike fit and setup, as well as a comprehensive musculoskeletal assessment.
For more tips and tricks on all things, bikes, follow the QR code below to our Instagram page. Lastly a little inside tip..... keep an eye out on the Instagram page for a HUGE competition that we will be running leading up to Gears and Beers 2021.
We know how important the role is of any support team in a health business.
Our support team works hard to ensure your experience and health journey with Active Physiotherapy is positive, smooth and happy.
Who inspires you?
My mum has always inspired me as a hard-working, kind and beautiful woman and also my partner Blake, who inspires me to be a happier and better person every day.
What do you do to keep active, healthy & happy?
I go to the gym 3-4 times a week, walk my dog Spencer regularly and play social netball with a group of friends.
What is the best advice you have been given?
To treat others how you would like to be treated.
What part of your job do you enjoy the most?
I enjoy connecting and interacting with our clients on a daily basis. As an aspiring physiotherapist I also enjoy hearing from people who have had life-changing experiences at Active.
How would your friends describe you?
As a fun-loving and confident person who always stands up for what I believe in.
In July we chose to give to Sunflower House whose mission is to deliver a consistently reliable safe and inclusive mainstay for people living with mental illness. They provide the necessary life skills and programs and facilitate appropriate interaction with other local mental health services, ensuring an overall holistic approach to life/wellness. This ultimately introduces people back into the community and breaks down the destructive effects of isolation.
Our physiotherapist Ben Frizzell ran over 300km in the month of July to also raise money for Sunflower House. We are so proud of him!
In August we are delighted to give to the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation (SMA) on behalf of a beautiful little boy who captures the heart of all who are blessed to know him.
The mission of SMA is to accelerate the development of treatments for SMA. With 1 in 50 people being carriers it is essential that there is more research, treatment and clinical trials available.
This is our little friend we are donating on behalf of (permission granted from family).
A message from his family:
Thank you to Active. Over the past two years, our boy has made incredible gains due to Physiotherapy and the dedication of the whole Active team. Our journey has been made easier due to the professionalism and dedication of the whole team. We cannot thank you enough for the donation to continue the research for new research and technologies.
This is Eden - one of our physiotherapists in the SMA Army.
We are honoured and privileged to help.
Coming to work each day knowing that you not only help those who come for treatment but you help to donate to worthy causes together with your patient makes your day brighter.
We welcomed our 5th Physiotherapy Student for the year.
Grace was born in Wagga Wagga and attended local schools. Grace has always had a passion for sport and has a holistic view of health practicing yoga daily (will love being with Sarah D our resident yoga instructor).
Grace would like to work in private practice so she is excited for this opportunity. We are excited to have her. Grace is being supervised by Ben Frizzell - one of our lead physiotherapists.
Inspired by the Olympics on television? Check out the following NY Times article:
A Master Class in How to Wipe Out
Falling during skateboarding or other activities does not have to end in serious injury. Olympic athletes, coaches and scientists tell us how.
During the inaugural men’s and women’s street skateboarding finals at the Tokyo Olympics this week, the best riders in the world fell. Repeatedly. They tumbled off steps and rails, hit the concrete, somersaulted, slid and loofahed any exposed skin. But after lying for a moment, most popped up, grabbed their boards and moved on to the next trick.
They gave a master class in how to wipe out well.
“Falling is commonplace if you are an athlete or physically active, even if you are young and fit,” said Jacob Sosnoff, a professor and associate dean of research at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, who studies human movement and falls. “In fact, if you exercise much at all, I would say falls are almost inevitable at some point.”
Or, as Ryan Sheckler, a 31-year-old world-champion skateboarder and eight-time X Games medalist, told me, “Skateboarding is all about falling. It’s key to everything. If you aren’t falling, you aren’t learning. You have to hit the ground to progress.”
But falling during skateboarding or other sports and activities does not have to end in serious injuries and painful tears. Science and experience suggest that we can learn to fall more safely.
For suggestions about the right ways to tumble, I talked with scientists, coaches and competitors in sports that grapple with gravity, including skateboarding. What follows are their suggestions for where to look, how to crumple, when to flex and why to congratulate yourself when you realize you are about to take the plunge.
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Everyone at one time or another has set a goal, be it career related, health related, or life related.
Goal setting is also an intrinsic and vital part of physiotherapy - for every single person who comes in our doors, we want to know what drives you, and where we are headed to make sure our treatment approach is tailored to your own unique situation. Goals help give us direction, motivation and allow us to move towards living our best life (however that might look).
But sometimes despite our best efforts and planning, there may be instances where we “fail”. This can be a difficult thing for people, and in my experience working with people who have pain, it can happen a lot. Working in the clinic, I hear a lot from people that they struggle to set goals because they are scared of “getting their hopes up” and then not reaching them.
We shouldn’t be scared of failing - and I’d argue that quite often we shouldn’t see it as failing at all.
Our goals don’t sit in isolation. So often we need to juggle many different balls at once - work, home life, family, emotional load, other commitments. It’s important and necessary to recognise that we need to have the flexibility to ebb and flow with life, and prioritise different things at different times. Feeling guilty or like we’ve failed for not sticking completely to our initial plan is often unhelpful and not conducive to long term success. If we make progress an “all or nothing”, it means when we do slip, it’s easy to lose motivation and fall off the wagon completely.
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