Sports injuries
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Snow sports and cold-related injuries - Better Health Channel
You can help reduce your risk of winter sports injuries with planning, preparation and proper equipment.
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Sports injury prevention - myDr.com.au
Look at your exercise program in terms of FIT - Frequency, Intensity and Time. Only one of these should be increased each week.
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Cricket - preventing injury - Better Health Channel
Cricket is a very popular sport. Injuries are often caused by overuse, being struck by a cricket ball and falls.
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Ankle sprains - Better Health Channel
Ankle sprain is a common sports injuries caused by overstretching and tearing the supporting ligaments.
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Mouthguards (31-64yrs) - Your Dental Health | Australian Dental Association
To prevent serious dental injury while active, wear a customised mouthguard. Information for Adults 31 - 64 years.
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Mouthguards (18-30yrs) - Your Dental Health | Australian Dental Association
To prevent serious dental injury while active, wear a customised mouthguard. Information for younger Adults 18 - 30 years.
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Mouthguards (12-17yrs) - Your Dental Health | Australian Dental Association
To prevent serious dental injury while active, wear a customised mouthguard. Information for Teens Age 12 - 17 Years.
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Strains and sprains: self-care - myDr.com.au
Strains and sprains, or soft tissue injuries, are common through playing sports and in everyday life. Find out what products are available for strains and sprains.
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Helping your child cope after an accident
Accidents are unexpected events that often result in injury such as a car accident, sporting accident, fall, burn injury or animal attack.
Read more on Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network (ACATLGN) website
Elbow pain - Better Health Channel
Elbow pain and can result from overuse in a range of sports or occupations.
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Adverse effects of sports supplements in men | Australian Prescriber
Up to 1 in 5 sports supplements contain banned substances. Find out what to look for and how to manage patients with adverse effects.
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Meldonium and the WADA Prohibited List | Issue 3 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Sports anti-doping
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Brachial Plexus Injuries: Care and Treatment | Ausmed
The brachial plexus begins in the spinal cord at the cervical and upper thoracic region (from C5-T1) and is a system of nerves relaying messages to and from the central nervous system to your shoulder, arm and hand. If this web of nerves is damaged, it can potentially have quite severe consequences.
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Brachial Plexus Injuries: Care and Treatment | Ausmed
The brachial plexus begins in the spinal cord at the cervical and upper thoracic region (from C5-T1) and is a system of nerves relaying messages to and from the central nervous system to your shoulder, arm and hand. If this web of nerves is damaged, it can potentially have quite severe consequences.
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Understanding the ways children cope with threats
Understanding physiological reactions to trauma - fight, flight, freeze and the coping strategies children use when they are abused and traumatised.
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Exercise-Induced Neuroplasticity – Creating New Neural Pathways
It was thought that the adult brain was ‘fixed’ and incapable of producing new neural pathways. The brain doesn’t need new growth in order to stimulate better cognition; the brain is incredibly underutilised. In other words, we don’t operate at anything close to max capacity.
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Oral and dental effects of antidepressants | Issue 3 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Patients treated with antidepressant drugs may experience a dry mouth. Other drugs associated with dry mouth include...
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Five Evidence-Based Ways to Hone Proprioception
Proprioceptive training can be easily broken into 5 different categories of techniques (Aman et al. 2014). Each category contains a wide variety of treatments — everything from simple balance training to magnetic stimulation. The question must be asked: do any of these actually work?
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Managing osteoarthritis | Issue 4 | Volume 38 | Australian Prescriber
Management of osteoarthritis should be based on a combination of non-drug and drug treatments targeted towards prevention, modifying risk and disease...
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Where to find information about drugs | Issue 3 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Good medicines information is critical to medical practice. Choose high-quality, pre-appraised sources first and make...
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