Understanding your MRI results for lower back pain is vitally important given the growing number of people sent for imaging each year. Lower back pain is one of the most common injuries we see and treat in our clinics. An estimated 1 in 6 Australia’s have chronic lower back pain. Nearly 3 in 10 Australians will experience back pain at some stage. This prevalence is so high that lower back pain is the third highest disease burden in Australia.
This article will outline some of the best ways to strengthen your glutes, avoid injury and improve your athletic performance. Glutes are seriously in fashion at the moment. Not from an aesthetic point of view, but a functional one. Functional is also in fashion.
Physiotherapists and Exercise Physiologists have been aware of how important gluteal strength is for many years. It isn’t any revelation in the rehab sector but lately for some reason every personal trainer, Instagram exerciser and amateur runner is talking about gluteal strength. And so are we! [Read more…]
Whether you’re behind the wheel or in the passenger seat, we all spend a large amount of time in a car. It is often filled with fun, laughter or the all too often “are we there yet?”. However, when you have back pain, time spent in a car can often ‘drive’ you mad.
Back pain is one of the most common health problems in the world. In 2011, The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found that back pain was the third largest cause of disease burden in Australia, while in 2014-2015, 1 in 6 Australians reported they had back problems. We spend on average 87 minutes a day in a car, which is a a lot of time a person can be in pain and discomfort. [Read more…]
So hopefully you’ve already read the article posted on flexibility exercises for golfers here. Now that you’re as limber as a Cirque du Soleil performer, you’re ready to get strong. This is where exercises for golfers is really important. Most people don’t think of golf as requiring much strength.
Although if you hit 150 balls at full effort at the driving range you’ll definitely have some sore muscles the next day.
The main areas that we look at strengthening are upper leg muscles and core. Even though a lot of the swinging happens with the arms, most of the power generated in a golf swing (and many other sports) comes from the hips and core. Imagine in the backswing that the body is being wound up like a rubber band.
Dance has become a highly participated activity with it’s own unique set of injuries. Consequently, we are seeing more and more dancers in the clinic. Particularly, lower back pain in dancers.
From a physiotherapy perspective it is quite interesting treating a dancer as they usually have a high degree of flexibility and hopefully good strength. However, since dancers have to be able to contort themselves into infinite positions, often at speed there is always a risk of injury. [Read more…]
