Come Jump with Me!

Jumpology Classes now available with The Good Physio.

Did you know that researchers around the world have worked out the number one factor that increases your likelihood for sustaining virtually every musculoskeletal injury known to humanity?  Of all the different injuries you can sustain to all of the different parts of your body, there is one factor that increases your risk of injury across the board.

“What is this mystery injury risk increaser?” I hear you say…

Drum roll…

The single biggest risk factor for sustaining ANY injury, is if you have already experienced that injury in the past.  It’s a bit of a let down really!  

All of the research, all of the expense of time and money, and the best indicator for a person injuring their knee/hamstring/ankle/back/shoulder is if they have already injured that body part!!  Of course each injury also has its own specific subset of risk factors, but number one on every list is consistently “Previously sustained this injury.”

The next questions are “why is this the case, and what can we do about it?”  And I’d like to think that one of the key reasons that repeat injury is such a big issue is that we don’t rehabilitate ourselves from injury properly. Often our approach to rehab stops at “Good enough” as opposed to “Good to go.”

This brings me to something I’ve been working on aimed particularly at rehab following ACL reconstruction. This work has obvious relevance to other knee arthroscopy rehabilitations, and ankle injury rehab (sprains, etc with or without surgery):

Jumpology classes (also known as Jump-Land training sessions).

Yes.  That's two small boys and a puppy on a trampoline.  No, we don't do that in Jumpology classes!

Often we find that after an injury or operation, once a person is able to return to the activities they love, they are quite probably in the "good enough" category. The patterns show this is where a patient identifies as having stopped doing the rehab exercises that their physio has prepared for them.  As I've noted above, your risk of reinjury is higher once you've done the damage the first time. Not finishing your rehab work is a big contributor in injuries are reoccurring.

Get with the program, and get beyond “good enough”...  dare I say it -  #GetGood full stop. I'm currently running classes on a Tuesday morning at 5:30am, so there’s no excuse to not come because of work commitments or any other such dodges.  Also, these are still physiotherapy treatments, so cost of the class comes with a health fund rebate.

Let’s get airborne!