Low Back Pain Exercises
Over the years I have had many different injuries and problems including multiple back type sprains, usually with central pain but often with a right-side bias. This pain has usually begun due to a lifting type of incident and caused a sharp and acute response requiring initial rest and medications to overcome the 3 days […]
WHAT IS LONG-COVID AND WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?
Long COVID is a term used to describe an illness when the symptoms of COVID continue for a period of 12 weeks or more. Symptoms can include persistent respiratory problems, headaches, fatigue, depression, heart palpitations and increased heart rate, pins and needles, numbness, poor sleep, chest pain, muscle or joint pain, altered sense of taste […]
How to treat Back Pain.
There are so many options for treating low back pain and other injuries in general. It would be hard to touch the surface in a short blog, so I will cover the basic difference between what is called Conservative treatment and what would be termed Surgical treatment. The most referred to conservative treatment modality in […]
What is the difference between a Sprain and Strain?
We sprain ligaments and we strain muscles. Both are essentially soft tissue injuries, they will cause bleeding and swelling to occur and a resultant loss of function. The most common sprains are of the ankle and knee, your wrist and your back or neck. The most common strains we have are of the long muscles, […]
Tradies National Health Month
August is Tradie’s National Health Month. The goal of Tradie’s National Health Month is to encourage tradies, their employers, as well as friends and family to prioritise tradies health. Tradies do physically demanding work and often complain of aches and pains. On top of these day-to-day demands tradies are at risk of workplace injury due […]
Low Back Pain Diagnosis
Non-specific or mechanical low back pain is defined as low back pain that is not attributable to a recognizable, known specific pathology, such as infection, cancer, or more serious types of pathology. Non-specific low back pain then has 3 subtypes: acute, sub-acute and chronic low back pain. These subtypes are based on the duration of […]
Low Back Pain Causes
In your back or neck you have many joints, your disc is actually a joint, and then at each vertebral segment you have 2 other joints called facet joints (in your thoracic spine you also have a rib joint on each side. Around all these facet joints you have small ligaments and when you over-move […]
What is a Disc Bulge?
You have probably been to the GP, had a CT or MRI scan and been told that you have a disc bulge. Statistically speaking there are lots of people that have disc bulges but have no pain. But this is most likely not you, but it is what we aim to do with you in […]
Low Back Pain Treatment Guidelines
Current guidelines recommend simple first line care for the first week or two. Simple first line care consists of: Avoid prolonged bed-rest Encourage movement – stay active and return to normal activities as soon as possible Exercise- get moving! Reassurance of recovery- don’t stress, the majority of cases of low back pain recover within a […]
Half Roller
The Half roller is used mainly for thoracic spine extension mobility exercises. Place it in the area that gives you some tightness and slowly and steadily extend or lean back over it to gain mobility in the area… | The Half roller is used mainly for thoracic spine extension mobility exercises. Place it in the […]
