by AdelaidePhysio | Mar 9, 2017 | Health Tips
The body feels the repercussions from Sports at any level, you don’t have to be an elite athlete to need Sports Physiotherapy. Athletes and individuals who play sports regularly are more prone to develop sports injuries. Some of the common sports injuries are tennis...
by AdelaidePhysio | Feb 3, 2017 | Health Tips
The diagnosis of cervical headache is frequently under-diagnosed. Many symptoms are similar to other classifications of headache such as tension headache, migraine, hormonal headache and even cluster headache. There may be clear dietary, environmental or hormonal...
by AdelaidePhysio | Jan 13, 2017 | Health Tips
The wrist & hand form a precision instrument allowing performance of highly skilled tasks with great power or pinpoint accuracy. Injury to the hand or wrist can deprive us from achieving the most simple of tasks. Wrist pain or injury is common and can usually be...
by AdelaidePhysio | Sep 2, 2015 | Health Tips
Soft tissue injury is an injury to any of the soft tissues of the body. The most common soft tissues injured are muscles, tendons, and ligaments. These injuries often occur during sports and exercise activities, but sometimes simple everyday activities can cause an...
by AdelaidePhysio | Aug 6, 2015 | Health Tips
Tradies have among the highest number of injuries, musculoskeletal conditions and other health and safety risks of any profession. Every day 10 tradies are badly injured at work. That is 3650 tradies a year on workers compensation. Nearly a quarter of all roofers,...
by AdelaidePhysio | Jul 16, 2015 | Health Tips
Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as “…an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage”.¹ Potential mechanisms for pain and the risk...
by AdelaidePhysio | Apr 13, 2015 | Health Tips
Years ago, arthritis was considered an inherent part of the aging process and a signal to a patient that it’s time to slow down, but not so anymore. Recent research and clinical findings show that there is much more to life for arthritis patients than the...
by AdelaidePhysio | Oct 14, 2014 | Health Tips
Exercise headaches usually strike in younger people, from adolescence through age 50. This type of headache usually occurs with lengthy exercise sessions. The headache usually pops up at the height of exercise and the pain typically fades when the exercise stops....
by AdelaidePhysio | Aug 29, 2014 | Health Tips
If you suffer from persistent or recurring headaches, it may be that your neck is the culprit (and you may not even have pain!) This cause of headache has been commonly overlooked which has often resulted in patients suffering for many years. Physios are...
by AdelaidePhysio | Jul 28, 2014 | Health Tips
Chronic pain usually falls into one of two categories: Nociceptive pain is caused by damage to body tissue and usually described as a sharp, aching, or throbbing pain. The damage may be due to an event such as an injury or surgery or an active disease process within...
