Sports injuries

A physiotherapist's top tips for staying injury-free as you work towards 2017 fitness goals

Cairns-based physiotherapist Ryan Adam encourages everyone to get on board with the New Year, New Me concept popular on social media, but said people needed to be mindful of overdoing things.

"Everyone needs a bit of motivation, and if that's the start of the year for you then good on you," he said.

"[But] subtle injuries can arise over a couple of weeks or a couple of months and rear their ugly head, or you can get some obvious acute strains and sprains from just going too hard.