Articles and Clinic News

Evidence-based advice on injuries, rehab and training, written by our physiotherapy team since 2012.

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  • 25 Mar 2026

How to Improve Bone Health Through Exercise: What the Research Says

  • Emma Draffin
  • 25 Mar 2026

Hamstring Injuries in Football – Anatomy, Mechanisms and Risk Factors

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  • 25 Mar 2026

Hamstring Rehab in Football – From Injury to Return to Play

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  • 2 Mar 2026

Dry Needling – How Can a Tiny Needle Help My Muscle Pain?

  • Emma Draffin
  • 19 Jan 2026

Why Tennis Players Get Knee Pain (And How to Prevent It)

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  • 19 Dec 2025

Why Does My Shoulder Hurt? Understanding Rotator Cuff-Related Pain

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  • 12 Oct 2025

How to Choose the Right Physio in Richmond 3121

  • David Thwaites
  • 22 Sep 2025

Patellofemoral Osteoarthritis – What We Know and How to Treat It

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 19 Sep 2025

Managing Patellofemoral Joint Instability – A Clinical Guide

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 30 Jul 2025

Should you change your running technique to avoid injury?

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 7 Jul 2025

Why I Love Referring People to Our Exercise Rehab Services

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  • 26 Jun 2025

Achilles Tendon Injuries in Cyclists – What you need to know

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  • 25 Jun 2025

Guyon’s Canal Syndrome: A common overuse wrist injury causing weakness, pain and numbness

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  • 7 May 2025

Knee Pain While Cycling? Here’s what you need to know about Patellofemoral Pain

  • David Thwaites
  • 29 Apr 2025

Poor Sam Draper! Why is an Achilles rupture such a big deal?

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  • 23 Apr 2025

A Physio’s Guide to Iliotibial Band Syndrome in Cyclists

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  • 21 Apr 2025

Our favourite scenic runs around Richmond 3121

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  • 26 Mar 2025

Why Cyclists get Low Back Pain and how to fix it

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 20 Mar 2025

7 questions to identify health misinformation in digital and social media. And how does it start?

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  • 15 Mar 2025

Bunion pain? How physiotherapy can help you stay on your feet

  • Niia Jones
  • 3 Feb 2025

Stretching and its effect on running performance and reducing injury risk

  • Emma Draffin
  • 14 Jan 2025

What is Tennis Elbow? Symptoms, causes and how physiotherapy can help

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 12 Nov 2024

Why Physiotherapy Can Help Prevent Surgery

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  • 14 Oct 2024

No Pain, No Gain? Understanding soreness and training outcomes

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  • 26 Sep 2024

‘Slow and Steady Wins the Race’ – The 4 key exercise principles

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 23 Sep 2024

Why do we run when it hurts? 5 key benefits of running

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 12 Sep 2024

5 Reasons Why I Love Leading the Team & Working at Complete Physio in Richmond

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 30 Aug 2024

5 Physiotherapy Tips to Help Knee Cap Pain

  • Niia Jones
  • 4 Jul 2024

Unlock your Running Potential with Strength Training

  • Skye Meredith
  • 20 Mar 2024

The Recovery Pyramid: Your guide to optimising performance and reducing injury risk

  • Niia Jones
  • 9 Jan 2024

Start to run safely in 2024

  • Skye Meredith
  • 2 Oct 2023

Top Marathon Preparation Tips from a Seasoned Veteran

  • David Thwaites
  • 3 Aug 2023

My calf injury – part 1

  • Skye Meredith
  • 26 Jun 2023

It’s not just an ankle sprain!

  • Niia Jones
  • 8 May 2023

Returning to exercise and running after having a baby

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  • 5 Sep 2022

The Night Wrap

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  • 1 Jun 2022

Life as an AFL Physiotherapist

  • Tim Trevail
  • 16 Feb 2022

ACL Injury Decision Making: Is the knife always needed?

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  • 8 Dec 2021

Are you ready to go back to sport after your ankle sprain? Now there’s some research to help you decide.

  • David Thwaites
  • 13 Oct 2021

Complete Q&A – Caitlin Thwaites

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  • 7 Jul 2021

Qualifications of a physiotherapist

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  • 9 Jun 2021

Telehealth is a viable option, even after the pandemic

  • David Thwaites
  • 12 May 2021

Complete Sports Care Q&A – Dr Mark Merolli

  • David Thwaites
  • 21 Apr 2021

Complete Q&A – Mark Scholes

  • David Thwaites
  • 21 Apr 2021

Complete Q& A – Ellie Pashley

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  • 21 Apr 2021

Surgery or not? Things to think about when you’ve got a decision to make about your shoulder pain.

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  • 26 Nov 2020

Managing heel pain in the sporting child/adolescent: A look at Sever’s

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  • 16 Jun 2020

Rotator cuff related pain: the most common cause of shoulder pain

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  • 23 Apr 2020

Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 17 Feb 2020

GLA:D Back – A new approach to managing your back pain.

  • David Thwaites
  • 15 Oct 2019

Knee arthroscopy: the downsides

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  • 8 Aug 2019

Bone Stress Injuries…. Runners Beware

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  • 22 Jul 2019

People with tendon pain need to be empowered with knowledge

  • Mark Scholes
  • 24 Jun 2019

5 General rules to managing hip pain

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  • 2 Apr 2019

“Scrutinising” your sources of information

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 7 Mar 2019

Running again with knee osteoarthritis at 79

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  • 29 Jan 2019

The Difficult Ankle

  • David Thwaites
  • 18 Dec 2018

Osteoarthritis – The Inflammatory (but only a little) Arthritis

  • Mark Scholes
  • 11 Sep 2018

Hip pain? Exercise is your first line of defence.

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  • 20 Jul 2018

Injury Management: Shared-decision making in the digital age.

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 7 Jun 2018

Physiotherapists must provide high value care

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  • 8 May 2018

Cadence Want to fix your running fast?

  • David Thwaites
  • 1 Feb 2018

High Value Treatment for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis

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  • 15 Dec 2017

Training Loads and Injury

  • Mark Scholes
  • 22 Sep 2017

Lower Limb Injuries In The Adolescent Athlete

  • David Thwaites
  • 27 Jun 2017

Clinical Pilates – moving beyond “core stability” for low back pain

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  • 18 Apr 2017

Benefits Of A Jog: Walk Program

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 20 Mar 2017

The Obsession With Strike Pattern Continues: But Be Careful

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  • 27 Feb 2017

Gluteal Tendinopathy – A Pain In The… Hip

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  • 24 Jan 2017

You Can Manage Your Tendon Pain Better Than Any Doctor

  • Mark Scholes
  • 14 Dec 2016

What happened to Osteitis Pubis? Classifying groin pain for better rehab outcomes.

  • David Thwaites
  • 3 Nov 2016

“Doc, should I get my back scanned?” – 2 reasons to think twice

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  • 19 Aug 2016

Most common training mistakes marathon runners make (what NOT to do!)

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  • 5 Aug 2016

Top 5 Marathon Injuries

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 21 Jul 2016

Running retraining to treat common injuries: Is it time we all started using it?

  • Mark Scholes
  • 8 Jul 2016

The “Plank” – Getting to the core of it

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  • 26 May 2016

8 Key Risk Factors for Hamstring Injury

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  • 20 May 2016

Six Quick Tips for Beginner Runners

  • Mark Scholes
  • 14 May 2016

5 key muscles in “Core stability” training and low back pain

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  • 6 May 2016

Hamstring Strain Rehabilitation: Key Principles

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 21 Apr 2016

Is VMO really that important to fix knee pain?

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  • 15 Apr 2016

Should I have shockwave therapy for my tendinopathy, or save my money?

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 21 Jan 2016

Is it ‘all in the hips’? Treating patellofemoral pain

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  • 15 Jan 2016

Tendinopathy and Injections: What you NEED to know before deciding whether or not to have a jab

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  • 2 Nov 2015

It’s a real pain in the bum! (AKA hamstring origin tendinopathy)

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  • 25 Sep 2015

Tendinopathy: Top tips for management

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 9 Sep 2015

Could increasing your running cadence help fix your injury?

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 10 Aug 2015

Minimising the impact of cycling on your running technique

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  • 4 Aug 2015

9 Tendinopathy Truths that you MUST Know – Why REST isn’t the answer

  • Mark Scholes
  • 27 Jul 2015

Groin pain – can bone be the source of pain?

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 1 Jun 2015

Cycling can be dangerous to your running technique – Be careful

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 8 May 2015

Recovering from chronic knee pain – occlusion training

  • Mark Scholes
  • 22 Apr 2015

Groin pain in the junior athlete

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 13 Apr 2015

Top 4 treatments for Achilles Tendinopathy

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 27 Mar 2015

Don’t under-estimate the importance of technique in managing running injuries

  • Dr Christian Barton
  • 22 Mar 2015

Do Minimalist Shoes Prevent Injury?

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  • 5 Mar 2015

Tendinopathy diagnosis top tips

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  • 27 Oct 2014

Tendinopathy Case Study – Unresponsive quads tendinopathy

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  • 31 Jul 2014

Patellar Tendinopathy NOT related to impact loading

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  • 7 Apr 2014

Achilles tendon differential diagnosis, with Peter Malliaras & Carly Johnson

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  • 3 Feb 2013

Post-injection tendinopathy rehabilitation

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  • 18 Sep 2012

Top tips for treating Gluteal Tendinopathy / Trochanteric Bursitis

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  • 22 Jul 2012

Accessory soleus masquerading as Achilles tendinopathy

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  • 18 Jul 2012

Length tension relationship and Achilles tendinopathy

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  • 17 Apr 2012

Explaining chronic pain

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  • 25 Jan 2012

Tendinopathy imaging – can it help the clinical picture?

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  • 25 Jan 2012

Achilles and patellar tendon injury treatment: rehabilitation