Visualising winning is pretty standard for a full-time athlete in any sport. But there’s nothing ordinary about it when Eltje Malzbender practises the mental technique. For the New Zealand para-cyclist, it takes a lot more mental energy than for most to imprint in her consciousness the vision of finishing on the podium at the Tokyo […]
It took Olly Mathers a year to learn how to smile again. But when he emerges from the surf at Raglan’s Manu Bay with his board under his arm, he can’t stop smiling. The 35-year-old Raglan man is back for his fifth surfing session on this Thursday morning, part of a 15-year journey to get […]
Farmers racked up $84 million in injury claims last year – the costliest since 2015. More than 22,000 farm-related injury claims were accepted by ACC, with an average of 60 workers getting injured every day. Since 2015, ACC has spent more than $383 million on farm-related injuries. Waikato has had the highest number of farm-related […]
Brook Macdonald is sitting on his bike at the top of the Hawke’s Bay Mountain Bike Trail and pauses for a moment – he’s been dreaming of this day for the past six weeks. On this fine and cool Hawke’s Bay morning, the local has a million things racing through his mind: his surgery, the […]
There were no tears, just a quiet moment of proud reflection for Ian Walker as he crossed the finish line of the Christchurch Marathon on Sunday. The 58-year-old local, who sustained a spinal cord impairment in 2006 when his bicycle collided with a truck and trailer, was involved in a second serious accident in 2019 […]
A landmark agreement between the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Institute of Trauma and Injury Management and the NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA), will help advance the trauma care patients receive, and provide an opportunity for NSW to become a national leader in the management of […]
A quick decision, a bit of bravado, and Andrew Leslie’s life changed forever. “As my head hit the ground, l knew instantly I was in trouble. My body went completely numb. I was paralysed instantly.” In March 2020 he dropped his daughter off at a mountain biking class and rode his own bike into Wellington’s […]
Mick Andrews is sitting on his surfboard out amongst the waves on Mangawhai Beach, Northland, as the sun rises over another set of golden waves. He takes a moment to soak up the idyllic surrounds of his home beach and remembers a surf that could have changed his life. Mick suffered a nasty head injury […]
It’s estimated 90% of all injuries are preventable. Research shows that these injuries aren’t random, unconnected or unpredictable – and we all have a part to play in stopping them. ACC accepts two million injury claims in Aotearoa every year – that equates to more than 5,000 injury claims every day. These claims cost more […]
Scaffolder Jono van Echten had suffered through 10 years of back injuries before his back gave way just before the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. “I couldn’t feel my legs and I thought I was paralysed. I thought, this might be it. “I was scared because I have a four-year-old son,” he says. Jono is […]