Last month we looked at a very simplistic test that can be used to indicate your longevity and a few exercises to improve the outcome of this test. But what about all the other indicators and tests that help us detect health conditions before they become a problem? Are they also important to check? And …
The search for the ever-evasive Fountain of Youth has been the story line of a few B-grade movies and the driver behind countless crazy inventions. Yet the answer to a long life or longevity has been staring us in the face and asking us to “pick-me” for countless years. The secret to longevity is found …
Warning…this BLOG is very personal, so if you are here for physio advice, you will get advice but you will get it from a very different perspective this month. It is March 2020. I am about to turn 40. I may or may not be having a midlife crisis but I am okay. Over …
Shoulder pain can be extremely debilitating. Think about instances where you don’t use your arms. Not that many, right? Shoulder pain is a common complaint frequently related to overuse or overload. Terms you may have heard are frozen shoulder, impingement, rotator cuff syndrome, biceps or suprapinatus tendinopathy and even instability. Some terms are outdated but …
I’d like to start the new decade by sharing 9 lessons I learned (both personal wellness and physio related) over the last year with the hope that it will also help you in 2020. 1. Movement counters poor posture 100% of the time. It is not the position you sit in that causes the …
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “Don’t do as I do, do as I tell you to do”. I am about to tell you the story of a physiotherapist that knew better, tried her best to follow her own advice but failed and suffered the consequences. All in the name of having an experience that …
Knee pain is sadly very common, and many of us have experienced knee pain in some shape or form in our lives. It can be caused by many things, such as body mechanics; habits; what type of exercise you do (or don’t do); age and degeneration, as well as increasing activity or a change in …
1. Flexing the spine fully first thing in the morning. Did you know that your discs hydrate while you sleep and are a lot fatter in the morning. So when you bend, the fluid displaces more than it would at the end of the day making it a higher risk for back pain especially if …
For the non-runners out there, PB does not stand for peanut butter. It stands for personal best, the fastest time it takes an individual to complete a distance, in this case 5k. It is the Holy Grail for runners. ‘What is your 5k PB?’, ‘I beat my PB today!’, ‘How do I improve my 5k …
Last month I gave you a few Physio Truth Bombs to think about. Now I want to dive a tiny bit deeper into one of those truths – exercise is 90% of your recovery. It is the one thing that people simply struggle to get around to and then wonder why they aren’t getting better …