Just like during all stages of our lives, exercise during pregnancy is vital to ensure not only our physical but also our mental health. Research has shown that regular exercise during this time can have many benefits. Read more here.
The term ‘core’ can be used to describe a wide variety of structures around the mid-section of the body. For the purpose of this blog, the ‘core’ refers to the four abdominal muscles that sit between the ribcage and pelvis on the front and side of the body (this is probably the most common use of the term ‘core’).
Pilates has so many benefits for so many people. I have been teaching and completing my own sessions for 12 years. For those of you yet to discover the magic of Pilates let me share some information with you!
Most people have had some sort of neck or lower back pain throughout their life.
But how many of you have experienced a sharp stab between your shoulder blades when you raise your arm? A deep ache that shoots around your side, or some pain when you take a deep breath?
If so, you might have had a thoracic spine issue.
In our first blog covering pain in children, we discussed niggling pain; the type of pain that comes on over time and doesn’t necessarily have a clear cause or mechanism of injury. Today we’ll cover another very common type of niggling pain in children; shin pain.
Achilles tendinopathy (or tendonitis) is pain in the Achilles tendon, usually felt when doing activities such as running and jumping. Often symptoms will remain consistent over time as pain will usually limit you from doing too much.
Does this sound like you?
Throughout our years of education in school or growing up at home, we have been told to ‘stand up straight’ or ‘sit up tall’. I’m sure we can all relate to the time where your mother told you off for slumping over or your teacher routinely requesting everyone to sit up tall at assemblies.
This slumping forward posture seems to be what we associate with as ‘incorrect’ posture and the ‘tall and upright’ posture seems to be the accepted ‘correct’ posture. I always hear patients tell me “I know I don’t sit in a good posture’ or “I know my posture is bad”.
BUT, what if I told you that there is no correct posture!?
In our last blog covering pain in children, we discussed niggling pain; the type that comes on over time and doesn’t have a necessarily clear cause or mechanism of injury. Today I want to talk to you about a very common type of niggling pain in children; knee pain.
Raise your hand if you have shoulder bursitis. Ouch!
Did you know acute shoulder pain makes up 16% of the injuries that physiotherapists see each month? And that on many occasions, people with shoulder pain are referred for imaging such as ultrasound or MRI.
BUT did you know that more than 25% of shoulders WITHOUT pain, show shoulder abnormalities on imaging, namely, subacromial bursitis and rotator cuff tears? Amy explains all here.
Back Pain. Disc Bulges. Nerve Pinches. Sciatica. Surgery. These words are normally enough to make anyone shake in their work boots.
Nonetheless back pain is extremely common and fortunately in the large majority of back pain cases there isn’t a significant muscle, joint, or disc injury and it is expected to resolve with good management between a few weeks, up to a few months.
Midland Physio has been providing leading physiotherapy and allied health care services in Perth since 2002.
