What Is Your ACL? Your knee is a complex joint. It’s essentially a hinge that allows your legs to bend and straighten. It includes several bones as well as ligaments and muscles that provide stability. Your ACL is the anterior cruciate ligament in your knee. It’s a dense band of connective tissue that joins your…
If your back aches long after you’ve delivered your baby, you’re certainly not alone. Persistent postpartum back pain affects around half of the world’s mothers. This unwelcome aftereffect of the endurance event of pregnancy and childbirth can last for weeks or months. As a busy mother, we understand that it can be tough to find…
The health and wellbeing benefits of yoga are well established. Practicing at a level that’s right for you can increase strength, flexibility and balance and reduce stress. As with any sport or physical activity, there is always the risk of injury. Common yoga injuries Poor technique and over stretching are common causes of yoga injuries…
If you do sport at any level, sooner or later you’re likely to be injured. As our colleagues at Physiopedia state rather plainly, ‘musculoskeletal injuries are an inevitable result of sport participation’. Fortunately, physiotherapists are experts in all things musculoskeletal. This means we’re well placed to treat the sprains, strains and other injuries that sports…
Thousands of Australians suffer from intensely painful and debilitating headaches. According to the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, a primary headache is triggered by “problems with or over activity of pain-sensitive structures in your head.” Moreover, the muscles of your head and neck, the nerves or blood vessels surrounding your skull, chemical activity in your brain, or…