Sep 12, 2019
I’m sure you have heard the term slipped disc before. You may have even been told before that you have “slipped a disc in your spine”. This sentence can create a lot of worry and fear, and it leads us to a perception that discs are fragile structures, easy to slip out...
Sep 4, 2019
A recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine looked at this exact question – how much leisure time exercise at a low intensity makes you healthier, how much is too much and does leisure activity count towards the World Health Organisation’s...
Aug 28, 2019
Listen up – I’m going to bust those back pain myths. 1 in 6 Australians reports low back pain in their lifetimes, and it is one of the leading costs of healthcare, as reported by Medicare. Over recent years our medical knowledge of the pain mechanisms of back pain has...
Aug 8, 2019
Trigger point dry needling is a technique that we use to help reduce, or eliminate the pain caused by trigger points in the muscle. A trigger point (also commonly talked about as a knot ) is a taut band in your muscle that is hyperirritable. It can cause pain, not...
Jul 31, 2019
Cupping therapy is a massage technique that originates way back to ancient Egyptian, Chinese and Middle Eastern Cultures. In fact, one of the first medical textbooks dated 1550BC called Ebers Papyrus describes Cupping in detail. Modern-day cupping involves placing a...
Jul 26, 2019
Tennis elbow (also known as lateral epicondylagia) is a condition where the tendons from your forearm muscles that attach to the outside of your elbow become inflamed and painful. It is commonly associated with overuse, and not necessarily just from tennis, but any...
Jul 19, 2019
Prolapse is one of the biggest secrets in women’s health. Did you know that 50% of women who have had children are affected by prolapse, so there are literally millions of women who suffer this condition in silence! A prolapse is where either the bladder, bowel or...
Jul 11, 2019
A recent study, (Damsted et al, 2018) examining the role of training load and progression in running-related injuries found that while most running injuries are related to tissue overload, the evidence supporting effective load-management was not running-specific....
