Muscle Knots and Stiffness Do you ever feel like your muscles are in knots? Muscle knots are made up of hard, tense muscle fibres that can be extremely painful or irritating. The medical term for them is ‘myofascial trigger points’ or ‘trigger points.’ Muscle stiffness is when tension has formed in the muscle and can…
Back Pain and Pregnancy: Causes and Relief Your body undergoes tremendous changes during pregnancy. It’s not just the growing belly, morning sickness and weird food cravings. You may experience pregnancy-related changes to your hair, skin, nails, veins, body temperature and mood. And you might experience back pain pain during pregnancy. What’s going on there? …
7 Reasons You’re Experiencing Shoulder Pain Chances are you don’t often stop to think about how important your shoulders are to your daily life – until something goes wrong with it, that is. Our shoulders are vital to a wide range of everyday activities, providing support and strength to our arms’ vast range of movements.…
Surgery, Rehabilitation and Recovery When you’ve experienced an injury or degenerative condition and lived with the associated pain and inconvenience, it’s tempting to see surgery as the ultimate solution, a quick fix that will make everything better. If you really need surgery, it is certainly a wonderful blessing, a clear milestone in your recovery. But…
No pain, no gain, right? If you’ve been using your muscles at the gym or on the sports field then you can expect to feel a little soreness. But when is it more than that? And how do you tell the difference? About your muscles There are about 600 muscles packed inside your body,…
Whether you have a surgery approaching or you’re somebody who would like to stay as far away as possible from suffering an injury and all of the baggage they carry, then Prehabilitation might be for you. What is Prehabilitation? The term ‘prehab’ is one you’ve probably heard in the past and mistaken for a…
About Your Hamstrings Your hamstrings are a set of three muscles at the back of your thigh. They run from your pelvis to just below your knee and you use them whenever you bend your knees or straighten your hip. What Causes a Hamstring Injury? You may hurt your hamstring if you’re doing something…
Posture is the position you hold your body in while standing, sitting or lying down. You might stand tall or slouch, you might sit upright or hunch forward over your keyboard, you might have just the right pillow or one that is too low or too high. For many of us, posture is unconscious. You’ve…
Modern medicine has advanced significantly in the last century, meaning huge leaps forward in our understanding of our bodies and how their different systems work. However, even with everything we know about our bodies now, there are still many mysteries in how they operate, and how certain systems link together. Unfortunately, this can lead to…
If you’re living with back pain, you’re not alone. A recent snapshot of Australians’ back health, by the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare (AIHW) reported that one in six of us – or 16% of the population – sought treatment for back pain in 2015. The AIHW research found that 14% of people living…