A soft tissue injury involves a “soft” structure of the body, this means not bone. Examples of these injuries are muscular strains, ligament sprains, tendopathies and other tissue injuries (eg fat, myofascial tissue, joint capsules, skin and other connective tissue). These types of injuries are often as a result of a sudden unexpected or uncontrolled …
There are more people over 100 years old in Australia than ever before, with 4,400 recorded in January 2017. There are many reasons behind our, and the world in general’s increasing longevity including improvements in hygiene and healthcare as well as food resources. With everyone coming from different health and social backgrounds, one of the …
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If you train at the gym or you simply training to improve your performance, chances are the FITT principle applies to you. FITT stands for frequency, intensity, time and type. These are training principles in which we should all get right if we want to optimise the effect of our training. Frequency: Refers to …
My name is David, I am 52 years old and work for the Ambulance Service. In September 2018 I injured my lower back while transferring a patient from the floor to an ambulance stretcher. Over a period of two weeks the injury increased to a point where I noticed one late afternoon that I …
Pain can be considered chronic or long term when it lasts for more than 3 months and is generally defined as pain that persists beyond the normal healing time following an injury. Pain is the human body’s alarm system to alert you when something is wrong. For example, when you accidentally touch something hot, the pain will make you retract your hand …
Do you suffer from pain? Are you hampered by stress and a lack of sleep and energy? Are you struggling to integrate rituals for effective diet and exercise into your life? We know this is common-place as we see it within our clinical practice every day. In today’s society and the radical changes we have …
Do you have a stiff and/or sore midback? You may even have been struggling from a sore shoulder, neck and lower back. Due to the thoracic spine connecting to these areas it wouldn’t be a surprise that your mid back could be a potential cause driving your pain. These days unfortunately our jobs do not …
Everyone has a feeling of anxiety, stress, tension and nervousness from time to time. These are all normal feeling when we go through a stressful situation and usually pass once the stressful situation has passed. However, Anxiety is when these feelings happen without any reason or cause and do not go away. Here are few tips to …
1. Move more If you don’t use it, you lose it! Contrary to popular belief pain is not always equal to damage and arthritis is no different. Just because you get pain when you move a certain way doesn’t mean that it is causing damage. We know in conditions such as osteoarthritis the tissues become …
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