IC Sports Therapies welcomes Kym Dyer to the team.
Kym first started out in the Travel Industry, helping people choose their perfect holiday destination, and also helping Business people attend their meetings around Australia.
She then moved into an FMCG company as a Receptionist and then on to an Executive Assistant role.
Kym then worked for a Not For Profit organisation helping people with high support needs disability.
Kym also currently works for a local mobility shop helping people of all ages and disabilities find the suitable solution to make their everyday life a little easier.
In joining the IC Sports Therapies team, Kym aims to help clients look good and feel great in their own skin, while unwinding and relaxing, in a peaceful environment.
Kym has received training in our Moorlife range, and loves how smooth it makes her skin feel!
Kym is no longer with IC Sports Therapies, and we wish her well in her future.
The rectus femoris is situated in the middle of the front of the thigh; it is fusiform in shape, and its superficial fibers are arranged in a bipenniform manner, the deep fibers running straight (rectus) down to the deep aponeurosis. Its functions are to flex the thigh at the hip joint and to extend the leg at the knee joint.[1]
Fun Facts about the Quadriceps and rectus femoris
Did you know that the Rectus Femoris is the strongest and leanest muscle in the human body?
Did you know that the Rectus Femoris is the only quad that isn’t actually attached to the femur (thigh bone) but actually is attached below the knee and to the pelvis. So it can both straighten the leg and bend the hip!?
The Latin full formal name for quadriceps is musculus quadriceps femoris, and the meaning literally translates to “four-headed muscle of the femur”.
President Bill Clinton had surgery in 1997 to repair the quadriceps tendon in his right knee, which he tore stumbling on steps.
Arnold Shwarzenaeger has just about as many muscle fibers in his quads as you do. They’re just thicker.[2]
The quadriceps are used for knee extension, cycling, climbing stairs. Squats or leg extensions on a machine will develop this muscle.[3]
There is a fifth muscle of the quadriceps complex that is often forgotten and rarely taught called articularis genus. In addition, recent cadaver studies have confirmed the presence of a sixth muscle, the tensor vastus intermedius.[4]
You can’t use exercise to target fat loss in specific areas.
‘Targeted fat loss, also known as “spot reduction,” is a popular idea partly because it appeals to our intuition. After all, it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that the fat you burn while exercising comes from the area around the muscles you are using. Yet a 1971 study conducted by the University of California, Irvine on tennis players found that this is not actually the case.’[1]
10 Myths And Facts About Burning Fat[2]
You Must Eliminate Entire Food groups to See Results
Endless Jumping Exercises are Great for Fat Loss
Eating Twice a Day is the Best Way to Lose Fat
You can Eat Whatever you want, as long as you create a Caloric Deficit
Just Eat Less and you’ll Lose Weight
All Calories are Equalso Eat Less and you’ll Lose Weight
You should feel Exhausted at the end of every Workout
You need to Work Out Every Day if you’re Serious about Losing Weight
Intense Cardiovascular Training will Burn Muscle and Thin out my Legs
We’re excited to tell you that we’re extending the hours our therapists are available to treat you. We’re also adding new modalities, to give us extra ways to help you enjoy your life to the full!
Jason’s extended hours
Such is the demand for Jason’s services that he is extending his hours at IC Sports Therapies.
Jason is our physiotherapist, and he has a special interest in working with young people with sports injuries, and rehabilitation. He has also recently started to use Shockwave Therapy which has been found to cause benefits in the treatment of a number of injuries.
Jason’s availability has increased with additional hours every weekday morning, from 8:00 until noon, in addition to Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
Shockwave Therapy
Shockwave Therapy offers fast pain relief and mobility restoration. Together with being a non-surgical therapy with no need for painkillers, this makes it an ideal therapy to speed up recovery and cure various indications causing acute or chronic pain. Read more on what it does and how it works at our Shockwave Therapy page.
Nicki, Jason, Colin and Lisa are all available to be booked during their scheduled hours, to help you experience the benefits of Shockwave Therapy.
Hot Stone Relaxation Massage
Nicki recently completed Hot Stone Massage training with the Australian School of Remedial Therapies, and can now give you that extra relaxing Hot Stone treatment – ideal for the coming cold winter days!
The hours for booking a Hot Stone Massage are 8:00am-5:00pm, weekdays.
Colin and Massage
Our Personal Trainer and Pilates instructor, Colin Parish, has recently added qualifications in Massage to his skill set.
Colin is no longer with IC Sports Therapies, and we wish him well in his future..
Introducing Kym
Kym Dyer joins the IC Sports Therapies team as a Beauty Therapist, making you feel and look great with our Moorlife range.
By joining us, Kym hopes to help clients look good and feel great in their own skin. While unwinding and relaxing, in a peaceful environment.
Kym is no longer with IC Sports Therapies, and we wish her well in her future.
Balance testing
Testing a patient’s balance by assessing their Left/Right weight distribution
90% of our clients experience significant improvement in their balance by following a targeted exercise program designed to strengthen areas identified in the assessment process.
Balance testing and training is available during our normal business hours.
“Technically, the statement, muscle weighs more than fat is false. The truth is that when placed on a scale, one pound of fat is going to weigh the same as one pound of muscle – just like one pound of bricks is going to weigh the same as one pound of feathers. Where the confusion comes in is that muscle and fat differ in density (muscle is about 18% more dense than fat) and one pound of muscle occupies less space (volume) than one pound of fat.
So yes, muscle seems to weigh more because there is a difference in the volume between the two. When a cubic inch of muscle and a cubic inch of fat are measured, the cubic inch of muscle will weigh more. As you add compact muscle mass to the body, body weight may increase. However, pound for pound, muscle and fat weigh the same and when tracking progress of a fitness program, it is very important to look at all markers of improvement, and not just the numbers on the scale.
These diagrams visually express the differences between muscle and fat densities
1) Muscle = more dense
Structure of a skeletal muscle
2) Fat = less dense
Cross-section of fat tissue
3) Cross section of a skeletal muscle (200x) showing the muscle fibres (red) and the fat cells (white)
Cross-section of skeletal muscle
Note that the fat cells are less dense than the muscle cells and take up more volume.”
The biggest muscle in the human body is the gluteus maximus- your butt
The smallest is the stapedius. It is thinner than a thread of cotton and is located in your ear
The reason for goosebumps is the contraction of small muscles located in your hair’s roots
You use 17 muscles in order to smile, and 43 to frown
The fastest muscle group in the human body is the one responsible for blinking. Thanks to them you are able to blink up to 5 times a second
You use up to 200 muscles in order to take a single step
The strongest muscle in the human body is located in the jaw and its name is the the masseter muscle
Your muscles are normally around 40-50% of your body weight
Every half a kilo (1 lb) of muscle you gain, your body burns an extra 50 calories a day
The fibres you already know about can support up to 1,000 times their own weight
75% of the muscle is water
Producing human speech takes 72 different muscles
The human tongue consists of sixteen separate muscles, not one as many people think.
Did you know that your muscles have their own memory? This is why once you learn how to ride a bike, you can never forget it, no matter how long you haven’t done it.
Muscles produce up to 85% of your body’s heat. In fact they produce enough daily heat to boil 2 pints of water for an hour.
IC Sports Therapies have gained another way to help you – Shockwave Therapy.
Shockwave Therapy
Shockwave Therapy offers fast pain relief and mobility restoration. Together with being a non-surgical therapy with no need for painkillers, this makes it an ideal therapy to speed up recovery and cure various indications causing acute or chronic pain.
Shockwave Therapy helps us treat your
Tennis Elbow
Golf Elbow
Jumpers Knee / Patellar Tendonitis
Achilles Tendonitis
Plantar Fasciitis
Supraspinatus Tendinitis
Calcific Supraspinatus Tendinitis
Trochanter Pain Syndrome
Tibial Stress Syndrome
and it has several other applications to speed up your recovery.
Read more on what it does and how it works at our page about Shockwave Therapy, and book by clicking the button below.
