About | Kinetic Performance Physiotherapy

Our Philosophy

We are a clinic that treat’s the why to your pain, function and goals. We are passionate about understanding the body as a whole and targeting the bigger picture through a biomechanics approach.

We provide expert knowledge and accountability that will empower you to create sustainable change through Physiotherapy and Strength Conditioning.

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Personal training, Gym, Strength Conditioning

HOLISTIC

SUSTAINABLE

EMPOWERMENT

Abby Rickard, Physiotherapist, Personal Training

Meet Abby

Director | Physiotherapist

After completing her Bachelor of Applied Sciences/Masters of Physiotherapy, in 2018, and working in the industry, she discovered a large gap between the medical and fitness industries. Abby’s passion to create a continuum for people to move through from injury to performance resulted in the formation of Kinetic Performance Physiotherapy in 2021. Abby has also completed her post graduate studies in Masters of Exercise Science (Strength and Conditioning), providing her with specified knowledge on exercise programming for athletes and general population. A biomechanics and hands-on treatment approach is at the core of her clinical philosophy. Abby aims to work with your goals, interests and lifestyle to get the best health outcome for you.

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Good luck to all the players starting their season over the coming weeks!

Switch your strength program to an Inseason one by focusing on low reps and higher %1RM for high intensity workouts. This looks like 4-6 sets of 1-4 reps with at least 2 minutes rest between sets. 🤩🔥

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The aim of strength workouts in-season is to maintain the gains you have made across your preseason. That results in focusing on a mix of strength and power based exercises with a high intensity.

Good luck to all the footballer and netballers this season 2025! 🔥

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Before stopping going to the gym completely due to pain or injury, try to modify your workout.

Modifying your gym workout to load the relevant injury is key to making a full recovery. 👍

Stopping the gym can lead de-conditioning, which can significantly impact your ability to rehabilitate your pain.

We want to challenge the body in a respectful way as we rehab the injury site 🤩

Try these types of load modification in the gym:
- Reduce reps x sets
- Reduce weight
- Reduce depth of exercise
- Alternate exercise to different type

#kineticperformance #strengthconditioning #physio #personaltraining #injury #pain #gym #modify

Max strength blocks are a key aspect to any preseason particularly for field sports 🤩

Now is the time to be switching to max strength block ready for your season ahead.

Focus on 5-6 sets x 4-5 reps at 75-85% 1RM 🕺🏻

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Time to switch it up from a hypertrophy block to a max strength block for all the footy and netty goers in their preseason 🔥

A max strength block is aiming to train the body to produce force maximally with repeated efforts. This is exactly what we need to do on the netball court or footy oval!

Aim for higher sets, lower reps and high intensity, which means heavier weights. Ensure you warm up well throughout these sessions to get the most lift intensity! 🤩

Happy lifting! 🏋🏻‍♀️

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It’s common for runners to focus only on strengthening the lower body in the gym as their sport does involve force production through the legs. But they may be missing out on the value of upper body lifts in developing trunk stiffness for running to avoid low back pain and greater chain force production.

Compound upper body lifts are fantastic for developing power and the ability to strengthen your trunk muscles for running.

Running requires a high isometric load through your trunk to keep your spine supported as you hit the ground and take off. Developing this strength skill through a bench press or push press can do amazing things for your running performance!

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Shearing forces occurring through the lumbar spine during your running gait is the most common reason for low back pain with running.

Shearing forces at the lumbar spine joints during running occur from the lack of support your trunk and hip musculature is providing when you are hitting the ground and taking off.

This can often lead to an ongoing inflammatory pattern through the lumbar spine that can develop into a constant ache during the day.

Get on top of it early to avoid that inflammatory pattern!

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The key to adequately recovering from tennis elbow pain is developing more shoulder strength!

Tennis elbow is often a reflection of the lack of shoulder capacity you have for certain tasks, resulting in force absorption and production needing to come from the elbow and wrist joints.

Try these band exercises to start strengthening your shoulder region for better upper limb mechanics, and thus taking the load of your elbow 🤩

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Tennis elbow is the aggravation of the common wrist extensor tendon. 🔥 Commonly hurts with lifting tasks, and weight bearing through the hand in an extended position.

First thing to do for tennis elbow is to calm the pain down by utilising some simple wrist and elbow exercises with a light dumbbell. These exercises help reduce inflammation and water retention within the tendon. ✅

Complete these three 2-3 times a day and you’ll be well on your way to calming down your tennis elbow 🕺🏻

The key to these exercises is the slow tempo and adding a hold! Hold the wrist extension exercise for at least 5 seconds.

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The RDL and the conventional Deadlift are under the same family of exercises that involve lifting an object from below.

Both the RDL and Deadlift target the hip and develop trunk stiffness, which we need for optimal sport performance.

However, the difference between the two is the hip flexion-extension angle, and this impacts the focus points of each lift.

The RDL is predominately a hip hinge exercise with little knee involvement. This results in a high hamstring tensile force, which is great for developing hamstring resilience to strains. ✅

The deadlift has a greater range of motion with more hip and knee flexion-extension angles, resulting in a higher force production coming from the glute complex. ✅

Both are beneficial lifts, but for different reasons, which is something to consider when choosing to program them into your strength blocks.

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It’s common to avoid sit ups due to low back pain 🔥

Sit ups can be a great exercise to improve your low back pain and strengthen your core. The key is that sit ups are done correctly to ensure the load is occurring through the core muscles and not shearing through a certain level of your lumbar spine.

When you are trying to keep a straight back in a sit up, this creates a hinge pattern at one of the levels of your lumbar spine. This results in a shearing force occurring at the lumbar spine ‼️

Try focusing on curling every vertebrae of your spine from neck to low back through out the sit up to ensure all vertebrae and core muscles are contributing to the movement. ✅

Happy sit ups!

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Hypertrophy training targets muscle mass growth adaptations by increasing the volume of your strength workouts.

To maximise your muscle mass gains, the best time to be doing hypertrophy training is in your preseason when you have more time to recover from these high volume workouts.

To target hypertrophy aim for 3-5 sets of 8-12 reps with a 65-75% 1RM.

Happy lifting! 🕺🏻

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Footy and Netball Preseason is well under way! 🔥

Now is the time to be doing a hypertrophy strength training block prior to your season beginning. This is when you can maximise muscle mass gains the most!

Have a go of this hypertrophy workout! 🏋🏻‍♀️ this workout targets compound lifts that are specific to football and netball performance finishing with a core superset.

#kineticperformance #kineticperformancephysio #strengthconditioning #physio #personaltraining #injury #pain #physio #afl #netball #netballtraining #footy #wangaratta

Are you a Physiotherapist with a passion for strength and conditioning?

This is the opportunity for you! 🕺🏻

Come join us on our mission to bridge the gap between injury and fitness. 🏋🏻‍♀️

Our search for an amazing Physio is underway and we would love for you to spread the word! 😍

Happy Friday!

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The first month of 2025 is almost over! 🤩 January is often a time for reflection and goal setting for the year ahead. What’s your health commitment for 2025?

Is it to resolve those ongoing pains and niggles? Or is it to get stronger? Or is it to improve your mobility?

The time to take action is now and we are here to help with your health goals for 2025!

Let’s get it! 🔥🕺🏻

WE ARE HIRING 🚨PHYSIOTHERAPIST 🚨🚨

We are excited to find an amazing Physiotherapist with a passion for strength and conditioning to join our team!

Swipe through for full details of the role, essential requirements and how to apply

We can’t wait for you to join our team!

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We are back and ready for 2025! 🤩

To start the year off, here is some new year workout inspo for you 🎉

Complete as many rounds of possible (AMRAP) with your chosen weights to start your year off with a quick sweat sesh.

You can also use this AMRAP as a baseline test to get a gage for your fitness level across different movement and muscle groups. Complete this AMRAP across the year and compare how many rounds you reached at each stage to highlight your progress. 👊🏼

A great way to fuel some motivation for the year!

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What a time 2024 has been 🤪

Thank you to all the lovely people we have had the pleasure of getting to know and trusting us with your health. 😍

We can’t wait to continue to strive to provide an excellent health service that bridges the gap between injury and strength conditioning in 2025.

Many exciting things to come in 2025 and we can’t wait to share it all with you! 🎉🕺🏻

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Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas from Abby and her dog, Wally. 🎄🎉

We hope you all had a beautiful time with friends and family celebrating the year! 🥂

Thank you for all the support and we’ll be seeing you all in the New Year! 😍

#merrychristmas #kineticperformance #physio #injury #pain #strengthandconditioning #personaltraining #wangaratta

We are officially signing off for the holiday season! 🎉

We will be closed from the 23rd of December to the 5th of January.

Thank you for all the support ❤️ We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!

Merry Christmas to all 🎄

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Developing a strong core is key to recovering from low back pain. The key to creating a strong core is in combining core specific exercises with compound lifts.

Compound lifts train functionality of the core muscles to support your spine with multi-joint movements and tasks. Whereas, core specific exercises such as planking and sit ups zone in on the core muscle groups.

Specifically training the core with planking and sit ups will only get you so far in developing core strength that will translate to sport and daily life.

Get those big lifts such as squats and deadlifts to improve your core and recover from low back pain! 🤩

#kineticperformance #strengthconditioning #physio #personaltraining #injury #pain #kineticperformancephysio #wangaratta #lowbackpain #lumbarpain #corestrength #corestrengthening

How we produce and absorb force through our lumbar spine is related to how the structures above and below it are moving. These structures are your upper back (thoracic spine) and your hip/pelvis.

With reduced mobility in the thoracic spine, we must rely on our lumbar spine for range of motion, resulting increased load on the low back.

With reduced ability to utilise our core muscles to support our spine with lifting, walking and stair tasks, we must rely on our lumbar spine for force production/absorption.

With reduced hip strength, we need to utilise our lumbar spine more.

These 3 biomechanic factors are key to addressing your low back pain. 🔥

#kineticperformance #strengthconditioning #physio #wangaratta #personaltraining #injury #pain #lowbackpain #lumbarpain

Structural changes on a lumbar spine scan show only one part of the diagnostic picture that we need to consider when determining a treatment plan.

Your biomechanics play a large role in how your low back is producing and absorbing force, and is key in understating your low back pain.

To effectively treat low back pain, we must understand the interplay of the two. 🤩

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Our injury rehab approach is centred around increasing your capacity so that you can achieve the required load.

Increasing your capacity is a combination of improving your mobility and strength. Having more range of motion and strength with certain lifts and mechanics is the key to success. 🎉

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The reason for an injury boils down to the capacity vs load ratio.

If the load you are applying to the body is higher than your capacity, you leave yourself at risk of injury.

If your capacity is higher than the load you are applying, you prevent injury risk.

Check out tomorrow’s post to find out how to increase your capacity to rehab and prevent injury 🕺🏻

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A major difference between a deadlift and squat is the different flexion-extension ranges that are utilised.

The deadlift is a hip dominant movement focusing on full hip flexion to extension movement with a small extension range at the knee and ankle.

The squat targets all 3 lower limb joints at full flexion to extension ranges (depending on your squat depth). This makes the squat excellent at targeting multiple joints and muscle groups at full capacity.

Both exercises are great to include in your training programs for differing reasons. 🏋🏻‍♀️

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Happy Hump Day! 🕺🏻

You’ll find Ash helping you learn about us, book your appointments and create a beautiful space you enjoy being in. 😍

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A very warm welcome to our newest team member, Ash!

Ash has joined our team as our Receptionist and Front of house 🕺🏻 She is the beautiful person you will see when you first walk in the door. 👋

Ash is passionate about wellness and helping you achieve your health goals by guiding you towards a health pathway that is best for you.

Welcome aboard, Ash! We are so excited to have you on our team 🎉

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Our main aim with a bench press specific warm up is to prime the shoulder blade and rotator cuff muscle groups for the lift.

We want to choose banded movements that focus on the push aspect, and the shoulder blade squeeze aspect of the lift.

Have a go at these three for 10 reps each with a powerband prior to starting your bench press sets and you won’t be disappointed in the quality of your lift! 🔥

#kineticperformance #strengthconditioning #physio #personaltraining #benchpress #shoulderworkout #shoulderstrength

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SUSTAINABLE

EMPOWERMENT

Meet Abby

Director | Physiotherapist

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Follow us on Instagram @kineticperformance_physio

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Email reception@kineticperformancephysio.com

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