After major surgery or severe injury, home or gym exercise programs can be too painful and so Aquatic Physiotherapy is often the best option. In combination with “in-rooms” treatment and gentle home exercise, this type of therapy can super-charge your recovery, allowing achievement of muscular… Read more »
Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a complex and debilitating chronic pain disorder. It involves global muscle pain and stiffness, with painful areas often “moving around”. Commonly it is coupled with Chronic Fatigue type symptoms. It is also commonly misdiagnosed when people have multiple painful areas and Physio’s/Doctors label… Read more »
Footy Shoes
During footy season we start to see the stress fractures caused by increasing loads of pre-season training (for Football, Soccer etc) on hard, rain starved grounds. Most coaches allow training in runners, but as we start to go into practice match time, some players opt back… Read more »
Dealing with Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease that affects many of us in the community. Often thought of as an “old womans” problem, it can also affect older men, and even younger people with conditions requiring corticosteroid use (cortisone etc) or Vitamin D deficiencies. Given a diagnosis, some… Read more »
Do Braces Make Muscles Weaker?
A common misconception is that regular use of braces on ankle, knee or lower back will cause you to rely on them and weaken the supporting muscles. This doesn’t happen at all. No brace on the market is strong enough to prevent your muscles from… Read more »
Mystery Back Pain
Do you have back pain some days and can’t think of ANYTHING you’ve done to aggravate it? In fact, it’s sore when you’ve spent a day sitting on your bum doing nothing? One of the most common ways to get a passive pelvic sprain is… Read more »
Post Pregnancy Swelling
Women who are recovering from child birth often worry about the little pouch of swelling that remains in the lower abdomen. This is caused by a combination of slackness in the poor, over-stretched abdominal muscles, coupled with some internal swelling from the trauma of the… Read more »
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
If you’re waking up with numbness in your hand(s), find difficulty grasping objects due to weakness or stiffness, and have pain in the palm side of your wrists (often with a shooting quality), you may be suffering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. This is caused by swelling… Read more »
To Heat or to Ice?
For acute injury management (first 72 hours after tear/sprain/bruise/fracture), conventional wisdom says that ice will slow the rate of blood flow, meaning less bruising and swelling. This is preferable to heat which increases blood flow, meaning worse bruising etc. However, if you’ve hurt your back,… Read more »
Heel pain in the Morning
If you have heel pain when you first put your feet to the floor in the morning, or when you go to stand after sitting, you may have Plantar Fasciitis. This is a painful inflammation of the bony attachment of the plantar fascia that supports… Read more »