David Abi - Sports Chiro

David Abi - Sports Chiro David is a director and senior practitioner at 4D Health and Performance in Sydney’s CBD.

28/05/2026

Insert any client facing profession 😳

I love working in a service based industry, but it’s a tough gig having to be ‘on’ all the time!

28/05/2026

A comprehensive running assessment should include specific strength markers, measurements of force production and absorption as well as an analysis of movement mechanics and running gait.

The harder part is taking all of these individual pieces of info and figuring out what it means for the individual. Any single test won’t tell us much about a persons running efficiency or economy, it’s just a stand alone finding, but putting it all together to find some simple ways to improve a persons ability to run and to hopefully stay injury free is so valuable.

24/05/2026

Pretty simple yeah?

Calf raises, minimum 2x per week, heavy. Can be bent leg, should definitely include standing single leg, and go heavy!

This is a question I get asked every day - how should I do the rehab? Once a day every day etc??Rehab doesn’t have to lo...
14/05/2026

This is a question I get asked every day - how should I do the rehab? Once a day every day etc??

Rehab doesn’t have to look a particular one. One thing I’m fond of saying is that if you are rehabbing a knee for example, we are isolating one part of your body to rehab whilst continuing to train the rest.

Early stage, when we are still trying to quieten it down, sometimes I’ll like to isolate the program to just focus on that area, but most the time I like to incorporate the rehab into a more robust program.

Depending on who you are, how you like to train, time constraints etc will also determine what’s best for you.

13/05/2026

I must have missed these classes at uni 👀

I’m usually pretty open to practitioners using all the tools at their disposal, but I personally draw the line well before this 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

12/05/2026

As a clinic owner, I’ve received a few of these emails, both about myself and about my staff.

If you’ve been in the allied health space long enough, everyone will have a patient who is unhappy with your service and thinks you are s**t at your job.

If they are decent, it’s just an email expressing disappointment, but sometimes they basically tell you to quit your job because you’re a waste of space 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

In that moment you feel low. You question every decision you’ve made, including why you got into the profession in the first place. You forget about all the people you’ve helped, and the countless patients who love you.

I’ve met and worked with some practitioners who respond by blaming the patient “oh well they didn’t come back in when I told them to” or “they didn’t do the rehab properly” and while this is probably true, I reckon it’s a good opportunity to look and see if I could have done anything better. Did I not communicate something well enough or did I not listen to what the patients true objectives were?

At the end of the day, unfortunately, we can’t help everyone and sometimes we just have to accept that even if we did everything right, maybe we just weren’t the right fit for that person. Still feels like a punch in the nuts though 😂

04/05/2026

Yeah, I don’t think AI is taking my job just yet 😂

Although I’ve definitely noticed a lot more ChatGPT diagnoses lately 🤦🏻‍♂️

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