There are many questions that relate to supplementation and performance with the most obvious being: do they work? The problem that we have in making this assessment comes with the lack of regulation of supplements (much like the lack of regulation around many complementary and alternative health care). The contents of a supplement vary widely [...]
For many of you the HSC PDHPE half yearly exam is fast approaching. You have only just settled back into your rhythm, and now in just a couple of weeks you will be sitting your first major set of exams for your HSC. So let's have a quick look at a couple of the best [...]
The latest release on ATSI health, the Closing the Gap 2016 Prime Ministers Report, has further confirmed what the 2015 report already stated. That the current Closing the Gap campaign is not closing at the rate it should. On track Closing the Gap 2016 This Closing the Gap 2016 report shows the following areas are [...]
To round out our series on useful sites, today I'm going to have a look at a few useful sites for Health Priorities in Australia. These sites are ones I used to gather much of the information to create the content for you on Health Priorities. The first of our useful sites for Health Priorities [...]
There are plenty of useful sites for Factors Affecting and Improving Performance that I use all the time. They provide up-to-date information and cover lots of content. The first of our useful sites for Factors Affecting and Improving Performance is Australian Association of Strength and Conditioning (ASCA). They don't provide a lot of free information to kick [...]
This article today is to describe a couple of usefulSports Medicine sites and why I try to use them as much as possible when looking at Sports Medicine. Throughout my site I have tried to make sure that there are useful Sports Medicine links that can help you to extend your study, knowledge, understanding and application [...]
The current trends in Australia's health "progressed" according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Their Measures of Australia's Progress, 2013 cover various components of Australia's health with the most important indicator being life expectancy at birth. Australia's life expectancy at birth indicates that our current overall health is trending upwards. Life expectancy is one of the most widely recognised [...]
When considering the use of drugs ethical considerations concerning fair play vs cheating need to be explored. The teacher notes in the HSC PDHPE syllabus are used to guide the learning of content to which they refer. In Improving Performance, use of drugs comes under ethical issues related to improving performance, and our understanding and application [...]
The performance effects and harms associated with drug use are drug specific and content heavy. It is specifically because of this that the HSC PDHPE syllabus has a teacher note to reduce the content and focus on ethics. Students need only a general understanding of the performance-related effects of, and the harm associated with, using [...]
Continuing our teacher note series, today we look at the combination of cold, wind and hypothermia. This teacher note comes under environmental considerations for What role do preventative actions play in enhancing the wellbeing of the athlete? in Sports Medicine. The teacher note says: Students should understand how the combination of heat and humidity or cold [...]
