May 2018

Physioworks Health Group APA titled Sports Physiotherapist Matthew Lynagh recently provided his skill set to an intensive Australian Men’s Deaf Cricket team camp based at the Cricket Australia National Cricket Centre in Brisbane.

The Australian Cricket Deaf team will compete in a World Cup in India in December. This is the first time that CA have fully funded the Australian Cricket Deaf team, so CA are looking to take the program to the next level in terms of high performance.

Over the nine (9) days of the camp numerous indoor training sessions, internal trial matches and games against an Invitational U17 Queensland team were held. The camp also included sports psychology (team culture) and sports nutrition. Australian spinner Nathan Lyon surprised the team spending a day working and coaching, which was great for the 17 man training squad.

Physiotherapist Matthew Lynagh undertook basic Auslan courses to help communicate with the players before presenting educational preparation and recovery lectures to all the players.

Everyday post training the team did hydrotherapy in the NCC pools, and learnt the benefits of using the hot and cold plunge pools. “At first the team struggled with the cold pools (about 10 degrees) but we got to the point where we had the whole team in for 10 minutes” said Matthew. “We put a real focus on warm ups and recovery, and across the camp there were no major injuries so hopefully the educational injury prevention aspects of the camp stand all players in good stead moving forward” added Matthew.

Check out this CA video about the camp: https://twitter.com/CAPathway/status/985352879408951296