Author: Sam Ward
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The Incredible Benefits of Resistance Exercise
In a world that constantly emphasizes the importance of physical fitness and well-being, finding the most effective exercise regimen can be a challenging task. While cardiovascular workouts often steal the limelight, it’s essential not to overlook the incredible benefits of resistance exercise. This type of training involves working against a force, such as lifting weights…
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WHAT IS YOUR PELVIC FLOOR?
The pelvic floor muscles are situated at the base of the pelvis. They attach from the pubic bone at the front to the coccyx at the back, in a hammock-like formation. The pelvic floor muscles consist of both a superficial and deep layer. When you activate your pelvic floor, you are squeezing both layers. The…
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Paying Attention to Tension Headaches
What is a tension headache? Tension headaches are headaches caused by tension in the muscles and joints of your neck and upper back. These headaches usually involve dull pain that wraps around the head. They can also include different patterns of pain in the head and neck, as well as symptoms like dizziness and nausea.
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Get a Grip on Your Elbow Pain: How Physiotherapy Can Help
Do you feel pain in your elbow when gripping, twisting or lifting objects, or using your arm? This may be due to an overuse injury to one of the tendons in your elbow, known as lateral or medial elbow tendinopathy, or more commonly tennis elbow or golfer’s elbow.
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Knee Osteoarthritis
Have you recently been diagnosed with knee Osteoarthritis by your GP? Or been told that your knee joint is “bone-on-bone”?This can all sound quite scary if you’ve not been given adequate education on your knee condition.
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Normatec Compression Pants
Normatec compression pants are a type of intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) device. The device uses cuffs around the legs to provide and release pressure throughout your legs. Its goal is to improve the circulation of blood flow within the veins in the legs. Veins carry de-oxygenated blood from your body back to your heart.
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Stretching: What’s the point?
One of the most common things that we hear patients say is that they injured themself because they didn’t stretch properly, or they think they haven’t stretched enough. This may not always be the case.
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Knee Arthritis Program
Do you know how many times per week we hear people say: “I just have arthritis in my knee, there’s nothing I can do about it” or “The surgeon just said to wait until it gets bad enough and then have a knee replacement”? Our team of Physiotherapists at Aushealth Physiotherapy run a knee arthritis…
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Why is My Hand Burning?
So, have you ever wondered why you get pins and needles in your hands? Not sure if its a Doctor problem or a Physio problem? Let us help you out. Pins and Needles or numbness/burning in your hand is all too common for people with desk jobs or students stuck hunched over books all night!…
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Stretch it out!
All stretches should be held for 15-20 secs and repeated twice. A good indication of how far you should stretch is to only go as far as you can go whilst maintaining normal regular breathing. You should avoid holding your breath and pushing the stretch into pain. Here is a sequence of moves that flow…
