The medical term for a stiff and painful neck is called, an Acute Wry Neck. This is often accompanied by spasm of the surrounding neck muscles, neck pain and an inability to turn your neck through its full range of motion. Acute wry neck is an extremely common condition, which can be quite disabling as […]
A piece of protection used by very few cricketers around the world. Why is this so? Why do we not find more cricketers using this piece of protection? Imagine playing Test cricket without a “box”, normally the first piece of protective equipment a male cricket puts on. Imagine then not using pads, gloves, helmets, thigh […]
Many people outside the cricket environment often ask, if there is much work from a physiotherapy point of view. Cricket unlike many other sports, has a high percentage of overuse injuries, that is, injuries that develop over time due to repetition and hence becomes chronic in nature. Stress fractures of the lower back to fast […]
Craig Govender and Abdulhaq ‘Jack’ Manack are part of some of the training sessions. The Lenasia Cricket Club’s mental training program that started last month has taken off so well that officials are confident this will provide players with the correct frame of mind and preparedness for the season ahead. Already the big wigs of the […]
