Sciatica: Your Questions Answered Sciatica is one of the most common types of back pain, thought to affect about 40% of adults at some point in life. Here’s everything you need to know about it. What is Sciatica? Sciatica is the name for pain that follows the path of your sciatic nerve. This is…
Calf Pain: Muscular, Neural or Vascular? Calf pain is often due to a problem with your muscles, vascular system or nerves. Your calf, that bit of your leg between your knee and your ankle, is made up of two major muscles, the gastrocnemius and the soleus, which join at your Achilles tendon above your…
If you’re a tradie, you need your body to be in great shape so you can do your job. You’re always on the move, perhaps lifting, hammering, drilling, tiling, roofing, or fitting pipes. You may well have been injured at work, either in an accident or through repeatedly straining your body. That repeated strain can…
If your work or recreational activity involves heavy lifting you’ve probably heard and heeded the conventional advice to ‘lift with your legs not with your back.’ Bending your knees and keeping a straight or neutral back has been a core manual handling technique for decades. Traditional manual handling training developed around the idea that our…
