Knee pain or stiffness
Do you experience knee pain or stiffness when you exercise? Try these simple knee release exercises.
Injury Prevention
Preventing catastrophic knee injuries in teenage girls! This week our physio Naomi was asked to head along and chat to the girls and coaches at the Murwillumbah Vulcans AFL club about injury prevention. In recent years there has been a massive increase in major knee injuries in teenage athletes, like ruptured anterior cruciate ligaments or …
Getting pain around your hips and pelvis
Experiencing pain around your hips and pelvis? Try these simple foam roller exercises Jenny is demonstrating in the video below.
Having trouble squatting?
Having trouble squatting? Your ankle range of motion is super important for this. Also really important if you do any running, jumping and impact type sports. It’s the first shock absorber so it can cause problems if you don’t have enough range. Here are a few quick tips to help you improve your ankle range …
Pelvic floor training exercises for women
Who can have weak pelvic floor muscles? Particularly pregnant women, women after childbirth and women during and after menopause. Where are the pelvic floor muscles located? They sit like a hammock between your pubic bone at the front and your tail bone at the back. They have a role in supporting your bladder, uterus and …
Choosing the correct pillow
I must be asked every day by our clients what is the best pillow to be sleeping on and its a question that I don’t have a simple one size fits all answer. The number one factor you are trying to achieve when choosing a pillow is what will keep your neck and spine as …
3 tips to prevent neck and shoulder pain for new mums
It is very common to suffer from shoulder and neck pain after you had a baby, as you are looking down constantly when you are feeding and because you are sleep deprived it is hard to adopt a good posture. My first tip would be to try to alternate the feeding positions knowing that seating …
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How to avoid surgery of the knee!
In the clinic we see thousands of patients with knee pain each year, most avoid surgery, some have surgery because they require it and believe it or not some have surgery that could have been avoided. It’s the latter group that that i want to talk about, imagine having knee surgery you don’t need. The …
Why am I in Pain?
Free gift, complete book download. A great colleague of ours in Brisbane has created this great resource on Pain. He has given permission for us to use it and share it with our clients. Thanks, Nick Schuster, Physio from Scarborough Physio and Health. Download your copy now!