Training for a triathlon is not an easy task. The repetitive stress can lead to pain, weakness, inflammation and injury. Cycling is most commonly linked to low back pain, neck pain and Achilles injuries. Whilst running can result in knee injuries or overuse hamstring...
A women’s health physiotherapist has vast experience in treatment through the different stages of a women’s life, including throughout the trimesters of pregnancy. As your body changes, it is common to experience pain in your low back, pelvis, hips or groin. There are...
Can physiotherapists treat dizziness? General dizziness and/or feeling light headed can have many causes – dietary imbalances, low blood pressure, migraines etc. Physiotherapists can treat general dizziness when it is has cervicogenic causes (ie. if the cause is...
In Australia, 1 in 2 women that have had children will have some degree of a prolapse and of them 1 in 5 will require medical treatment (1)1 in 2 women will have stress urinary incontinence between the age of 18-83 (3)1 in 10 women will have endometriosis (2) A...
De Quervain’s is a condition which affects your wrist at the back of your thumb. The two tendons involved are in the back of your thumb called your Extensor Pollicis Brevis and Abductor Pollicis Longus. These tendons help to move your wrist inwards (if for example,...
Tension-type headache is a widespread form of headache characterised by mild-moderate head pain with no other associated symptoms (such as vomiting or light/sound sensitivity). It has a very high prevalence with studies reporting a prevalence of 36% for men and 42%...
