A Complete Overview Of Manipulative Musculoskeletal Therapy

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Manipulation treatment traces its origins from parallel developments around the world, where it was instrumental in treating several musculoskeletal conditions. Alternative therapies, including musculoskeletal manipulation, have been in use to treat various ailments for centuries. Manipulative musculoskeletal is a specialised area treating neuro-musculoskeletal conditions. Backed by clinical and scientific evidence, the therapy is an innate […]

Physiotherapy Offers Great Benefits in Managing Your Shoulder Pain

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Shoulder pain is a common occurrence across people of all ages and walks of life. The dull and constant ache of shoulder pain can be very disruptive to a patient and can even impact on a good night’s sleep. It can make the patient feel a lack of energy during the day, which can affect […]

Everything You Need to Know about the Treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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Sometimes the median nerve encounters compression when it goes through the hand. This physical condition is known as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or CTS. The median nerve is located on the palm of the hand, which creates a sensation in the thumb, index finger, partial ring finger, and long finger. It is responsible for instilling impulses […]

How can Physiotherapy Improve Functional Mobility Caused by Cerebral Palsy?

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Cerebral palsy is one of the most common reasons behind children’s disabilities. Cerebral palsy is a series of neurological disorders that may affect movement, muscle tone or postures. Sometimes, the immature and growing brain of a child gets damaged before its birth. This damage causes cerebral palsy. Signs and symptoms of this disorder become visible […]

Health Benefits of Strength Training

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What pops in your mind when someone talks about strength training? Most people can connect it only with bodybuilders who have a hulk-like body. This concept discourages many women from trying strength training. Some believe that it is designed only for men or those needing a model-like physique. If you also think this same way, […]

An Overview of Lower Back Pain

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The lower back or lumbar spine is a well-built frame of interconnected bones, nerves, joints, ligaments, and muscles. All these organs work together and maintain harmony to empower the human body with support, flexibility, and strength. However, this structure of the lumbar spine is complex, and it is prone to getting easily injured. Any injury […]

The importance of the Rotator Cuff in shoulder stability

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Have you often heard trainers in the gym saying you need to strengthen your rotator cuff and actually ever wondered what is our rotator cuff and why is it so important ? The shoulder joint (the Glenohumeral joint) is a ball and socket design which allows for significant movement in all directions. However, despite this […]

The Postpartum Road to Recovery

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Physical activity has many wonderful health benefits for mums. However, it is fundamental that return to exercise postpartum is specific, guided and gradual. During pregnancy, your centre of gravity changes and shifts weight forward. This alters your posture and changes the biomechanics of your pelvis and back. Furthermore, changes in hormones during pregnancy alter lumbopelvic […]

Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

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Hands up whose trying to get fit right now ?!? We often throw ourselves into exercise without preparing our bodies and slowly building up. This often makes you more susceptible to developing injuries especially when our deeper stabilising muscles haven’t been switched on in a long time. One injury that people are particularly susceptible to […]

Do you suffer from headaches or migraines ?!

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Headaches are literally a pain in the neck ! There are several types of headaches people experience and many different triggers. Cervicogenic headaches are a type of headache referred from either bony structures or soft tissue of the neck. It is thought this referral pattern is caused by nerve structures that supply the head, neck […]

What Are Shin Splints

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Have you ever been exercising and noticed pain along the front of your lower leg? Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome or “shin splints” describes pain felt along the shinbone and is a common presentation that runners, dancers or people doing other high impact activity e.g. basketball can suffer. This pain is caused by inflammatory process around […]

Having Osteoarthritis? – Everything You Need to Know About the Disease

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If you are facing the problem of osteoarthritis and seeking permanent relief from the disease, then you must know everything about the disease, its symptoms, causes and available treatments. Without the proper knowledge, you may skip a lot of steps and even fall prey to treatment scams. Thus, to help you know everything about osteoarthritis, […]

Top 4 Exercises Recommended by Expert Physio’s in Collaroy

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Our shoulders support a lot of actions that we carry out in our daily lives. From reaching out, lifting, carrying around to pressing and pulling, we need our shoulders and so, they must be strong and flexible. With all these activities, it is not at all surprising if we experience a certain amount of pain […]