A physiotherapist, commonly known as a physical therapist, is a healthcare professional who helps patients recover from physical injuries, disabilities, and pain caused by conditions such as strokes, sports injuries, acute accidents, and chronic diseases. Physiotherapy is an essential part of modern medicine and plays a critical role in helping patients achieve their best […]
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The benefits of exercise for pain by Exercise Right Exercise and movement are essential ingredients in the management of persistent pain. Many pain researchers and health professionals recognise that increasing physical activity levels can improve pain, function, and wellbeing across a range of persistent pain conditions including osteoarthritis, back and neck pain, shoulder pain, fibromyalgia, […]
Corticosteroid (cortisone) injection of joints and soft tissue facts Corticosteroids are powerful anti-inflammatory medications. Cortisone injections can offer fast-acting relief of inflamed muscles, joints, tendons, and bursa. Complications are rare but may include infection and bleeding. When administered by an expert, cortisone injections offer significant pain relief from inflammation with only minimal discomfort. What are […]
The Warm Up: What It Should (& shouldn’t) Include The goal of the warm-up is simple enough, we want to prepare the body to perform dynamic, ideally explosive, powerful movements without injury. In the past, this has involved warming up with light aerobic exercise followed by lots of passive stretching to loosen up tight muscles […]
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Type 2 Diabetes and Exercise Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes making up to 90-5% of cases according to the Centre for Disease Control (CDC). It develops slowly over a period of time making the subtle onset of symptoms difficult to pick up and while T2DM can develop at any time […]
WHAT IS A CERVOCOGENIC HEADACHE There are many causes of headaches – from migraine to tension headaches to those which are caused by irritation of the upper neck. Just as nerves in the lower back radiate into the legs and the nerves of the lower neck radiate into the arms, nerves in the upper neck, […]
Foot and Ankle Plyometrics This is where we take all the mobility, control and strength from a combination of the stretches and exercises in our previous calf posts and we add SPEED. So, what happens when you add speed? There’s an interesting feature of our muscles called the ‘stretch-shortening cycle’ where a quick stretch or […]
3 Stretches For Your Calves Here are 3 calf stretches that target different parts of the calf group which I frequently use before conditioning exercises. Now, why is it so important to have good mobility at the ankle? Stiffness of the ankle can contribute to a number of issues within the foot and ankle but […]
Pre-Race Preparation Scott sits down with our resident elite runner and physio, Reece Edwards, to give our pre-race tips to help you get the best performance on race day. Reece was the first non-pro finisher of the Chicago Marathon in 2018, debuting as the 3rd ranked Aussie over the marathon and turned heads, stepping up […]
Jaw Pain- the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) This blog is aimed at providing a little more insight into the structure, functions and problems that occur at the TMJ for anyone who has had problems in the past or is currently suffering from jaw pain, clicking or tightness that leads to grinding and what an experienced Physiotherapists […]
