Injuries can creep up on you from degeneration, poor movement patterns or lack of exercise in your lifestyle.
Many injuries are avoidable by maintaining a good level of strength, stability, balance and mobility. Sometimes however they are just unavoidable.
Regardless of the mechanism you have experienced an injury: it is how you overcome an injury which will get you back to sport or living life again on your terms.
Injury rehabilitation is an important strategy for dealing with injury. As Exercise Physiologists we are passionate about designing injury rehabilitation programs to guide clients back to health.
Physiotherapists and Myotherapists also play an integral role with strategies for injury rehabilitation.
Another important strategy is your mindset. Mindset cannot be understated as a vital contributor to success in your rehabilitation from injury.
In this video How to overcome injury and setbacks with James Hird – James Hird discusses the strategies he used as an elite level AFL football player to overcome injury. In the video James Hird opens about the keys to getting your mindset right for overcoming injury.