Author: Brisbane City Physiotherapy Blog

The new normal? The weight of the head in a living person in somewhere between 4-6 kilograms. Forward Head Posture (FHP) as typified in a current high street fashion model (see below) increases the muscle tension needed to maintain the head in an upright position. This postural alignment can contribute to persisting neck pain and headaches. The many hours spent on various devises can contribute ...
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Graded exposure and "keep using it so you dont lose it" are the keys to gaining and maintaining good functional movements required for comfortable competent daily living.My aim is to be able to full depth squat (front squat with elbows straight ahead & overhead squat) at least 15kgs when I'm 90..more than 1/2 way there! So good so far)Maintaining this requires ankle-knee-hip range, thoracic ...
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Nine months after career-saving hip resurfacing surgery, Andy Murray, 32 years of age, admits he wished he had done the operation sooner as it “would have saved bit of pain and a bit of time”. After the highs of 2016 saw him win a second Wimbledon title, a second Olympic gold medal and finish the year as the No 1 player in the world, it went downhill the following year. He missed the second...
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Infrared heat is efficiently absorbed and metabolised by human body cells and can promote healthy cellular function. This can help with pain relief and settling inflammation. Profound muscle relaxation can be experienced due to improved blood flow and patients often report improved sleep quality and mental clarity. Acupuncture needles have copper handles (copper being a super conductor) and the ...
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Soleus is a very underrated deep muscle of your calf that can significantly influence ankle mobility, knee, hip and low back accumulative strain. It is a work horse of a muscle and as a result it can be hard to achieve soft tissue mobility gains. Rolling (including pinning and flossing) can double the results of your efforts to improve flexibility and strengthening gains. For experienced hands o...
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The ITB – What is it ? Why does it hurt ? How to treat it! The Iliotibial Band (ITB) has a poor reputation in sports and sports medicine. Mention your ITB and knowing nods and shakes of the head abound. The ITB is often associated with sports injuries and problems such as iliotibial band friction syndrome and anterior knee pain: and we all know…it hurts ! The ITB is, however, connectiv...
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VOMIT = "VICTIMS OF MODERN IMAGING TECHNOLOGY" This term was first introduced by Richard Hayward, a consultant neurosurgeon in an article in the British Medical Journal in 2003 VOMIT (victims of modern imaging technology) - an acronym for our times. BMJ 2003;326:1273: “…The history of imaging since the discovery of x rays has been one of an exponential rise in the volume and accuracy ...
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Look down..at your big toe. Is it starting to drift across toward your other toes? Is there a large bump contour developing on the inside of the base of your big toe. The more progressed condition of this malalignment is called a bunion and can become gradually more painful. If your foot or low limb alignment (genetic component as well) has not been efficient over time this can result in sustained...
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A sore tendon (tendinopathy) needs to be treated differently to other soft tissues. The primary reason for this is that tendons have a poor blood supply and heal slower when compared to other soft tissues. The priciples of treating a tendinopathy are: 1)Tendinopathy does not improve with rest – the pain may settle but returning to activity is often painful again because rest does nothing to incre...
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Move it or lose it!.. has been the Arthritis Foundations catchphrase for decades and there is a lot of truth to that. Or on more positive note, less threatening advice is we must simply "keep our moving parts moving" for best short and longterm outcomes. Did you know that knees suffer the consequences of poor or altered feet mechanics from the ground up and also from hip mechanics, tightness/we...
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