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What is a Portion of Food
2023 is in full swing and some of the top resolutions people make for the New Year is to exercise more & eat healthier, we wanted to delve deeper into the healthy eating topic & brush up on our terminology – particularly the word ‘portion’. So, what exactly...
Maintaining Your Resolutions
With new year feeling like a hazy distant memory, 2023 is well and truly underway, with new year resolutions like the persistent sting of a recent sunburn, people are hitting the gyms, hitting the streets in joggers & watching their diets. Motivation for some...
Present Ideas to Avoid Christmas Injuries
More musculoskeletal injuries occur during the Christmas holiday period as people are busy & tend to push themselves to fit things in. So we have some Present ideas to help you avoid looking like Santa after his busy night delivering presents across the world....
Movement helps persistent pain!
Chronic pain is inherently a multi-factorial experience, influenced by things such as past experiences with pain, how family/friends have described their pain experiences, pain-tolerance, beliefs about the causes and treatment of pain, the list goes on. Naturally the...
Why do my knees click?
Cracking, popping and clicking in the knee is a very common occurrence, with studies supporting that the vast majority of people will have some knee crepitus (noisy knees) at some point within their lifetime. The two main determining factors to distinguish whether the...
Exercising with knee osteoarthritis
There is a common misconception that exercise may harm osteoarthritic knee joints. This leads to decreased activity levels due to fear and avoidance, which in turn will have negative effects on knee joint health. There is consistent evidence proving otherwise,...
Do I have a Frozen Shoulder?
Frozen shoulder, also called adhesive capsulitis is a condition affecting the joint capsule of the shoulder. It is characterized by inflammatory changes within the shoulder capsule that lead to pain and stiffness. Frozen shoulder is categorized as either primary or...
Do I need surgery after rupturing my ACL?
An ACL rupture is a common injury among athletes that often sees their season cut short with a long rehabilitation process. ACL tear management commonly leads to reconstructive surgery despite the growing body of evidence that many people can return to normal and...
Physiotherapy vs Exercise Physiology
A tale of two allied health professions - when it comes to injury rehabilitation or chronic condition treatment/management/prevention, there are two health professions that are frequently mentioned and, to the layman, are commonly confused due to the homophonic nature...
Rotator Cuff Tear – What’s next?
Rotator cuff tears are considered a common finding with advancing age. Just as we get grey hairs or wrinkles, we expect age-related changes to occur internally too, and not all of them will cause pain. Generally small to medium rotator cuff tears will be asymptomatic...
Running Mistakes to Avoid
Setting running goals and achieving them can be an extremely rewarding experience. Sometimes unrealistic expectations, injuries or pain can create a physiological and psychological hurdle in achieving these goals. To aid your running experience, here are some tips and...
Weight loss to prevent surgery
It may come to you as no surprise that losing excessive weight has multiple positive health benefits. These include things like reducing blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, reducing risk of heart disease and stroke improving sleep and breathing etc. But did you...