Brisbane City Physiotherapy Blog

Improving thoracic mobility is crucial for generating power and distance in the golf swing. Here are some exercises that can help enhance thoracic mobility and increase your swing distance: Thoracic Spine Foam Rolling: Lie on your back with a foam roller positioned horizontally beneath your shoulder blades. Support your head with your hands, keep your knees bent, and feet flat on the ground. ...
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Mouse use varies depending on the individual. If you do a lot of mouse work it is worth considering teaching your brain to become proficient with both upper limbs to help share load. A significant number of overuse injuries associated with office work involve the right upper limb. As most of us are right handed, and the unwritten convention of using the mouse on the right side (beside number pad),...
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As the temperature is warming up, it’s a good time to start or even ramp up your exercise routine! It is important to do the type of exercise we enjoy and we should be aiming for at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week and and 2 days of muscle strengthening activity. Exercise is reported to improve our physical and mental fitness, improving our mood, reducing anxie...
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Sleep is an important part of well being. It is particularly important when recovering from an injury. Some tips: Get your light right - When your eyes tell your brain "we're up and we're clocking on for the day" this sets your circadian rhythm. If your eyes don't see the sunlight until later in the day your brain won't be ready to "clock off" until later in the night. Difficulty falling asle...
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Modern shoe design defies the natural anatomical shape of our feet. It is very common to have shoes with a tapered toe box and a heel. Women’s shoe design is usually more pronounced than men’s. These forces squash our toes together and increase the weight bearing on the front part of our feet. Furthermore, the ankle joint (talo-crural) loses mobility and the calf has restricted range. We are desig...
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We often have people tell us they are "so tight."  There is a bell curve of flexibility and you can be too tight or too flexible. Ideally it is good to be in the middle of the bell curve. When you have physical "tighness" of a muscle it can be improved with static stretching. Static stretching has copped a bad wrap over the years paricularly as it has been shown to have limited usefulness as part ...
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The Sports Medicine journal published a recent systematic review on sex-specific differences in running injuries.  They looked at the results from 38 studies and found the overall injury rate was very similar, with 20.8/100 female runner injuries and 20.4 /100 male runner injuries. Female runners had a more frequent occurrence of bone stress injury while male runners had higher risk for Achilles t...
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Plantar fasciitis or fasciopathy is one of the most common causes of chronic foot pain. Research suggests that 10% of us will develop plantar fasciitis at some stage in our life. Conservative management, such as physiotherapy, has been shown to be effective, first-line treatment (Hasegawa et al, 2020). The plantar fascia is a band of connective tissue that runs from the heel to the ball of ...
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Neck pain – what to do? Most of us experience neck pain at some time in our lives.  It is in fact, one of the top 5 chronic pain conditions worldwide (Cohen et al, 2017).  It can be the result of trauma, for example, a whiplash injury following a car accident or due to our everyday function such as work or exercise.  Usually our neck pain will settle with some exercise, over-the-counter med...
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Interesting page for anyone with persisting heel pain (plantar fascia) or metatarsal region pain: Healthy Feet Daily https://www.facebook.com/Healthy-Feet-Daily-270071377203357/ Main points -beware of shoes with a narrow toe box - look for shoes with a wide toe box to encourage the natural position for the toes (not squashing the toes - see picture) -must have a adequate calf flexibility...
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