Australian Rules football is a fast and fantastic sport , requiring extraordinarily high athletic skill to master the sport. Strength, speed, flexibility and agility are required to meet the demands of acceleration, direction change, jumping, passing, ball kicking and catching and teamwork. Avoiding injury is certainly one of the best ways to continue enjoying playing Aussie rules football. Knee and ankle injuries are common in ARF, as are calf area injuries. Metatarsal fractures, Achilles tendonitis and plantar fasciitis are also not uncommon.

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Nail care can sometimes present some rather unusual problems. Sometimes you may not want to discuss concerns about any problems that present in your toe nails. When it comes to cutting difficult nails, our GeoClean Health Podiatry nail cutting service, at our Cairns Podiatry surgery will allow the total examination and assessment of your nails, in order to establish what the best professional management for your nails is. If there are any areas of concern, we are able to advise you how to manage them.

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If you have injured yourself in your chosen sport, it is advisable to seek professional car as soon as possible. An example is following an ankle sprain, where your tendency may be to just sit it out until the injury gets better, and then attempt to return to your sports activity as soon as possible. There are very good reasons for not following this line of management. Let’s look at the facts. When a soft tissue injury takes place, the tear or damage to soft tissue structures is an unknown quantity. Until you have the area properly checked out, you cannot establish the degree of damage thathas taken place. Why is it so important to establish?

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Without doubt, road deaths and accidents are one of our biggest major concerns for our community safety around the globe. What I want to alert readers about is the huge responsibility we have each time we get behind the wheel in a car. We are given charge of an extraordinarily wonderful transport medium that has helped society develop in fantastic ways. But our big problem is complacency. Yes, you, me, and just about every other driver that we hurl criticism at. One thing is for sure, we are not paying enough attention on the road. Remember, you do not just have a responsibility to the other people in the car and other road users; you have a responsibility to your family, friends and society, for all the indirect costs associated with road accidents and fatalities. Driving and road safety has some foot related considerations, and at GeoClean Health Podiatry at our Cairns Podiatry surgery, we share the passion for road safety in the communities of Far North Queensland and Australia. If you have any foot or lower limb conditions which you feel may affect your driving ability, please consult us for further information.
On a more positive not, what can we do to improve our foot and lower limb involvement on the road, to ensure better safety? We need to consider many different things. Some of them we will discuss today.

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