IC Sports Therapies are in this year’s Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Visitors Guide.
We’re putting it out there (along with many other local businesses) and you can benefit with this simple way to earn a discount at our clinic.
How to earn your discount
Take a selfie of yourself with our advert in the Bush Telegraph’s The Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Visitors Guide and share it with us on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or your favourite other social media (or just bring it in to us at the Clinic) and you’ll get a 10% discount* off your next treatment.
along with numerous other services and modalities.
The Visitors Guide
The guide is a regional Visitors Guide, encompassing the Ku-ring-gai district as well as Hornsby Shire and the Hawkesbury.
The Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Visitors Guide (HKVG) is more than a guide for visitors, it is a treasure trove of exciting places and beauty spots to be enjoyed by all.
Use the information in the HKVG to maximise your fun discovering what this exquisite region, encompassing waterways, foreshores, bushland, urban and rural getaways, has to offer – especially the services we offer!
We urge you to support us, as one of the numerous wonderful local businesses featured in this Guide, as you explore the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai region.
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Hurrah! Such is the demand for Jason’s services that he is extending his hours at IC Sports Therapies.
Jason has a special interest in working with sports injuries and rehabilitation. In particular he’s interested in injuries involving muscular and joint problems in the lower limbs. When treating these injuries he uses a combination of soft tissue therapy, joint mobilisations, ultrasound and a graded exercise program in order to rehabilitate you the client and get you back to your sports and activities as soon as possible.
He has also recently started to use Shockwave Therapy which has been found to cause a benefit in a number of injuries, including Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendinitis, and Tennis and Golfers elbow, as well as all other Tendinitis Conditions.
Here at IC Sports Therapies we also have a multifaceted team whose modalities include Remedial and Relaxation Massage, Personal Training and Pilates Classes, to assist you in getting you back to your sport.
Where Massage and Physiotherapy (and more) combine
Let our team enhance YOUR sports performance.
Our team members
In no particular order…
Jason Maxworthy
Jason Maxworthy, PhysiotherapistJason is a passionate sports fan, in particular soccer and cricket, and has been playing for his local clubs for over 20 years. This passion and enjoyment for sport led him to becoming a Physiotherapist, to help others recover and get back into their sport as soon as possible. He has been treating a variety of patients for over 9 years now and has a real interest in knee and ankle injuries.
Lisa Barnes, Remedial Massage TherapistLisa is an ex Commonwealth and Olympic games gymnast who has been involved in sport for most of her life as a competitor, coach or judge. She completed a Human Movement degree & Diploma of Education and was a PDHPE teacher for over 15 years. She is still heavily involved with primary school PE programs and has a Certificate IV in Massage Practice.
Nicki Cooke, Principal TherapistNicki has a passion for making people better. Using remedial, sports and lymphatic drainage massage, and combining her personal sporting experience and training, and over 25 years in practice, she is able to assist people to recover more quickly than is usually expected.
Stephen Cooke, Practice ManagerSteve has over 40 years experience creating and supporting IT and business systems. He holds two Bachelors degrees from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, majoring in English, Demography and Computer Science.
His responsibilities include administration, web site, blog, social media, online stores, and the IT systems for IC Sports Therapies.
The idea that ice baths are an effective way to speed up muscle recovery after strength training has again been debunked, this time by researchers from the University of Queensland and QUT.
They say athletes who immerse themselves in icy cold water are hindering long-term gains in muscle mass and strength and it would be better for them to “warm down” on an exercise bike.
Their 12-week study, involving 21 physically active men, shows that not only does cold-water immersion attenuate muscle adaptation, it also blunts the activation of key proteins and satellite cells in skeletal muscle up to two days after strength exercise.
Their advice to athletes is to stay clear of cold water, at least after strength training.
Findings
“The present findings contribute to an emerging theme that cold-water immersion and other strategies (e.g. antioxidant supplements, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) that are intended to mitigate and improve resilience to physiological stress associated with exercise may actually be counter-productive to muscle adaptation,” write the researchers in The Journal of Physiology.
See also our May 2015 post about Why Ice Delays Recovery by Gabe Mirkin, MD, author of the best-selling 1978 Sportsmedicine Book, and creator of the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) for the treatment of athletic injuries.
“When I wrote my best-selling Sportsmedicine Book in 1978, I coined the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) for the treatment of athletic injuries (Little Brown and Co., page 94). Ice has been a standard treatment for injuries and sore muscles because it helps to relieve pain caused by injured tissue. Coaches have used my “RICE” guideline for decades, but now it appears that both Ice and complete Rest may delay healing, instead of helping.
In a recent study, athletes were told to exercise so intensely that they developed severe muscle damage that caused extensive muscle soreness. Although cooling delayed swelling, it did not hasten recovery from this muscle damage (The American Journal of Sports Medicine, June 2013). A summary of 22 scientific articles found almost no evidence that ice and compression hastened healing over the use of compression alone, although ice plus exercise may marginally help to heal ankle sprains (The American Journal of Sports Medicine, January, 2004;32(1):251-261).”
He then goes on to explain that
Healing Requires Inflammation (Inflammatory cells rush to injured tissue to start the healing process),
Ice Keeps Healing Cells from Entering Injured Tissue (Applying ice to injured tissue causes blood vessels near the injury to constrict and shut off the blood flow that brings in the healing cells of inflammation)
Anything That Reduces Inflammation Also Delays Healing
Ice Also Reduces Strength, Speed, Endurance and Coordination (The cooling may help to decrease pain, but it interferes with the athlete’s strength, speed, endurance and coordination)
Dr Mirkin’s recommends “Since applying ice to an injury has been shown to reduce pain, it is acceptable to cool an injured part for short periods soon after the injury occurs. You could apply the ice for up to 10 minutes, remove it for 20 minutes, and repeat the 10 minute application once or twice. There is no reason to apply ice more than six hours after you have injured yourself.”
As Inaugural President of a new brand of cricket for kids with disability, Nicki developed health and first aid policy, and liaised with Cricket NSW.
Blind Cricket
As an accredited Cricket Australia Coach, Nicki has worked with the Aussie Blind Cricket Team and both the NSW and ACT Blind Cricket Teams. She has also worked as Team Therapist and Trainer.
In 2008 she was on the organising committee which hosted the Inaugural Australian Blind Cricket Ashes, and acted as Team Therapist for Australia. She also acted as Tournament Therapist for the 2010 Nationals in Sydney.
Patron of the Inaugural Australian Blind Cricket Ashes 2008 Tour, Richie Benaud, meets Nicki Cooke
Wheelchair Sport
Since 1998 Nicki has provided remedial massage, sports injury therapy and first response to athletes with disability. With experience at Olympic, Paralympic and World Cup level, Nicki has also travelled to Paris for the French Open (Wheelchair) Tennis, and worked with the WheelBlacks and Australian Steelers at International level.
Rehabilitation
The last 20% of recovery from injury, accident or illness takes 80% of the time and effort. It is challenging for therapists and frustrating for clients. Often a cheerful word and a fun approach to rehab helps to change mindsets and break down psychological barriers to progress. Research in neuroplasticity cause and effect has resulted in significant improvements for clients.
Masters Sport
Working with Masters Athletes requires a lateral approach, and Nicki feels that athletes at elite level in Masters sport have the most to gain from her experience. Usually therapists aspire to work with young elite athletes so Masters is an area with a paucity of therapy options. Thus she has found a willing and motivated group.
Nicki at the Indoor Cricket Masters World Series, 2010
Indoor Cricket
Both N.Z. and Australia have benefited from Nicki’s care. In South Africa in 2011, for Opens, and Masters Gold Coast for Australia, the teams under her watchful eye made a clean sweep of all 5 grades.
The N.Z. teams at Masters level took bronze, silver and gold in South Africa in 2013, and their Over 40 Men’s Team took Silver in the 2015 Australian Masters Championships.
Nicki Cooke went to Adelaide for the 2019 Australian Indoor Cricket Masters Championships, as Team Therapist for the New Zealand Central and Northern masters sides.
Following a recommendation from a friend, I went to see Nicki after being messed around by chiropractors and wrongly diagnosed by other medical specialists. After 6 intensive sessions I am now back doing things that I couldn’t do for more than 18 months of struggling with back pain and sciatica Continue Reading
I have been seeing Nicki for the last few weeks for back and leg pain. Never in my life have I ever felt so comfortable with a therapist before. I enjoy coming back every week and can not recommend her enough! See a video testimonial by Courtney.
I love this photo of Nicki and Declan with the beautiful paintings by Leeanne. Nicki thank you for being an amazing friend for over 20 years. Thank you for going above and beyond in treating Declan’s chronic pain. And for all the hours and hours of research you have done Continue Reading
A few months in, I am free of the constant pain! It’s when doing the simplest of acts with no pain that I realised, hey, this is amazing. Continue Reading
After undergoing major knee reconstruction, I believed I would never play soccer again. When a friend recommended Nicki, I was reluctant at first to reconsider playing. Now, I’m going really well! Have had no major issues, playing soccer and skiing without any problems with legs since beginning of the year.
IC Sports Therapies was established in 1995, and our team practices Sports Therapy using a wide range of techniques (including Remedial Massage, Sports Massage, Physiotherapy, Shockwave Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage, Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Lymphatouch Negative Pressure Therapy, Sports Injury Therapy, Balance Assessment & Correction, Low-level Laser (a.k.a. Cold Laser) Therapy, and Pain Management & Rehabilitation) at our Clinic in Hornsby, New South Wales.
What can we do for you?
Our qualified and professional therapists are highly skilled and can address issues such as sports injuries and personal fitness, headaches, stiff necks, sore shoulders, low back pain, tired heavy legs, ACL injuries, foot pain, lymphedema, plantar fasciitis, and general aches and pains.
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.
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