Return to Sport/Early Sport Conditioning

Our Performance team will focus on the essential elements for an athlete’s successful return to sport or introduction to a new sport or recreational activity. The process of returning to competition or challenging your body with a new sport involves enhancement of the body’s load carrying capacity in preparation for these higher load activities. Use of correct training techniques to maximise rehabilitation and reconditioning and allowing the body time to adapt is critical. While the goal is rapid resumption of activity, it is important to be aware of our ability to tolerate new loads from a strength and conditioning perspective. Knowing when you are ready to return to sport, or increase your loads can be a tricky decision to make alone. Many people go back too early and suffer re-injury or injure a new body part that has been allowed to decondition during the time off play. Our team will guide you through a program tailored to your individual needs and designed to reduce the likelihood of injury or re-injury while providing the building blocks for enhanced performance. They will also put you through your paces and test key factors that have been shown through research studies to predict readiness for return to sport.

Our GymStart Instructors
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Eric Huang - A Qualified Physiotherapist - PhysioTec

Eric Huang

Physiotherapist
Bike Fit Analyst

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Eric Huang

Eric has been a qualified Physiotherapist since 2004, having worked in a variety of clinical settings from medical centres to holistic health centres before joining Physiotec in 2009. With this many years at Physiotec, Eric is currently our longest serving physiotherapist. For many years, Eric split his time between PhysioTec and providing onsite injury management services to a variety of manual handling industries. In 2018, Eric decided to move from onsite injury management to work with Dr Patrick Weinrauch at Brisbane Hip Clinic. His many years working and training under Dr Alison Grimaldi and now under Dr Weinrauch make him highly qualified in the management of Hip & Groin pain.

His other interests in physiotherapy are neck and upper back pain, cycling related pain and injuries and dry needling. Eric is a competitive cyclist himself, runs his own cycling crew, MIA, and is passionate about all things cycling. He has competed at both Australian and World Track Championships. Eric provides our bike fit service and has a personal and professional interest in strength & conditioning. This experience he brings to our GymStart programs, where Eric can teach, assess and correct your form with gym lifts to ensure you will be safe and gain maximum benefit from your gym program. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience where it comes to balancing optimal performance outcomes and recovery from injury or training fatigue. In his spare time he also enjoys spending quality time with his family and keeping a great looking tropical aquarium.

Performance Services