MAD Physiotherapy Blog

What Reduces Injuries in the Gym? Once you accept that CrossFit-style training isn't inherently more dangerous than other loaded, technical sports, the more useful question becomes practical: what actually moves the injury risk needle, in either direction, for the...

Marathon Series: Return to Running With the Melbourne Marathon for 2026 yesterday, here is the final piece in our series on bone stress injuries in running. One of the more frustrating patterns we see with bone stress injuries isn't the injury itself, it's the...

Marathon Series: The Shoe Isn't a Shortcut. There's a version of running culture right now where the shoe has become the intervention. Struggling with injuries, chase a new shoe. Trying to run faster, chase a new shoe. And to be fair, the newer generation of running...

Marathon Series: The Injury That Doesn't Announce Itself. With the Melbourne Marathon this coming week we though we would talk about some common running injuries. Bone stress injuries have a habit of catching people off guard, and part of the reason is that we tend to...

Common body regions of injury in Crossfit and Functional Strength Training If you look across a decade of injury research in CrossFit, from the earliest cohort studies in 2020 through to the most recent cross-sectional work, one thing stands out more than almost any...

Why We Can't Predict a Hamstring Strain. Every preseason, somewhere, a physio or S&C coach lines a squad up in front of a dynamometer, tests hamstring strength, ranks the results, and flags the weakest few as "high risk." It feels rigorous. It feels like exactly...

Are the stories about Crossfit Injuries true? And what do we know about injuries in Hyrox? There's a persistent story about CrossFit that gets repeated often enough to feel like fact: that it's a uniquely dangerous way to train, that the injury rate is out of step...

Strong is not always fast. We see it constantly in return to play discussions. An athlete comes back from a hamstring strain, ticks every box on paper — full range, symmetrical strength on the dynamometer, no pain on stretch or contraction — and yet something still...

As some of you may know I am currently in Europe with a group of athletes as they compete in a series of track events across Italy, Norway, Switzerland and the UK. And I find that whilst it may seem glamorous to be doing such travel, the constant shifting of cities,...

In a weird way I tend to think about how to create exceptional performance and excellence an extended amount. And initially I thought it was related to the coaching that I do in track and field. But as time goes on I have come to recognise that there is something much...