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7 Tips to Help You Prepare for Longer Bike Rides
Wanting a longer bike ride, now that winter is over? Unfortunately spring here in Australia means we move straight into magpie season! It’s not the best time for cyclists. However there are a few big events coming up and it’s time to start some serious training. If you are anything like me, you have been…
Hamstring Injuries: The Best Hamstrings Strength Exercises to Prevent Injury
Hamstring injuries, tears and strains are one of the most common sporting conditions. And even worse; they have one of the highest re-injury rates. We see plenty at Sport & Spinal Physiotherapy. They occur most commonly during sports that require high speed, agility and explosive power. In this article I will discuss hamstring tears, the…
Understanding Your MRI Results For Lower Back Pain
Lower Back Pain Is Really Common 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…
Can Physiotherapy help your headaches?
Headaches and migraines are a serious burden for many people. I’ve had many occasions where I’m treating someone in the clinic for a completely different injury and they mention that they get frequent headaches. After asking a few questions we often have enough information to say “did you know that we can probably fix it?”.…
Neck Pain in office workers
Do you spend hours sitting at a desk? Have you noticed an annoying niggle in the neck that wont go away? If you answered YES to the above questions then continue to read to find out how you can prevent and/or manage neck pain at work. Did you know that by doing regular neck stretches…
5 Life Hacks to Help Relieve Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP)
What is Pelvic Girdle Pain? Pelvic Girdle Pain used to be lumped together in diagnosis of lower back pain. However, more recently Pelvic Girdle Pain (or PGP) has become it’s own ‘injury’. It refers to pain around the pelvis, usually focusing at your two sacroiliac joints, groin and your pubic symphysis. The pain can sometimes…
The Importance of Calf Strength and the BEST Calf Strength Exercises
Your calf is one of the most under-trained muscles in your body and is usually neglected from a strength program. Most people don’t understand or believe the importance of keeping your calf complex strong. If this is you (or you just want to know more), then read on! The Calf Complex.. It really isn’t complex.…
Hip Joint Impingement Explained & How You Can Fix it!
You may have been recently diagnosed with a hip joint impingement or hip joint capsular restriction or even femoroacetabular impingement. Thankfully, they’re all pretty much the same thing. In this article we’ll look at this impingement from a practical perspective and what you can do to improve it. As a general rule you’re probably suffering…
What is Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome and 5 Tips to help you
At Sport and Spinal Physiotherapy, when we tell someone they have Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (or GTPS for short) we usually get a look back mixed between confusion and disappointment. People are often concerned with the term ‘syndrome’. They think we have just diagnosed them with a permanent injury, which it is not. And usually…
13 Simple Ways to Strengthen Your Glutes and Avoid Injury!
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…
Private Health Insurance changes for Pilates and how it affects you
Background to Changes In early 2018, it was flagged that a comprehensive review of Australia’s Private Health Insurance industry was required. Specifically, it was announced that a number of natural therapies were ineligible for Private Health Insurance rebates. The Australian Government’s original position was that Pilates would not be rebatable, regardless of who/how it was…
Continuing Professional Development: How Kinesio Tape Works
Recently, I attended a two day level 1 and 2 course on Kinesio Taping at the Canberra Institute of Technology in Bruce. I have met the course presenter, Tuay (Twee) Bridges, twice before. As usual I was wowed by her insight, knowledge and experience of all things anatomical, assessment wise and her high level of clinical…