Exercise Physiology Benefits Exercise physiology involves analysing your fitness in order to help you improve your health. This treatment option is used not only to treat illness and chronic conditions but is also used to plan exercise programs for all kinds of athletes. An exercise physiologist can support patients across a wide range of fitness [...]
The Kinetic Chain Nearly everyone gets back or neck pain at some stage in their lives, but we all get it at different a point in our kinetic chain. Some people with a sprained toe feel sore in the toe, get it treated and have no further problems. Others don’t notice the toe pain because [...]
Tips for a Healthy Back In this day and age, sedentary stressful jobs and fast food options have unfortunately become the norm in our western world. Our poor lifestyle choices due to increasingly busy schedules make us more susceptible to nonspecific lower back pain. Non-specific lower back pain is defined as lower back pain which [...]
How Shockwave Therapy Works If you’ve read our previous blog on the Benefits of Shockwave Therapy, you will know how effective this non-invasive treatment can be. This treatment option is being offered at our Wynyard, Northbridge, Castle Hill and Liverpool physiotherapy locations. It can be used to treat persistent musculoskeletal conditions. How does shockwave therapy [...]
10 Tips to Assist in Recovery from your Chosen Sports Performance One of the areas of greatest recent advance in Sports Injury management is what we do to assist in our bodies recovery immediately after playing our favourite sport. The following pointed guidelines come from the elite side of sport and are appropriate for athletes [...]
Working from home? Stiff neck? Sore back? Over the last few months patients of mine have reported an increase in the time that they spend sitting…whether it be because they are recently working from home, not heading out and about on weekends or due to business lockdowns. This has resulted in aches and pains [...]
Benefits of Shockwave Therapy Do you have a long-term musculoskeletal condition? Shockwave therapy might help. Here at Sports Focus, we’ve seen excellent results with shockwave therapy – a non-invasive treatment option that has little to no side effects. Shockwave therapy is a safe, non-invasive physiotherapy modality that promotes natural tissue healing for a variety of [...]
What happens to your body during pregnancy? We all know that pregnancy causes changes to your appetite, activity levels, body shape and mood. And when you have it figured out, the changes come again as you move through the trimesters. Here’s a look at what happens to your body during pregnancy. Hormones Hormones are chemical [...]
How to Manage a Groin Injury A groin strain is a common groin injury that occurs on the inside of the thigh. Often referred to as a groin pull, this injury occurs when there is a tear in the adductor muscles. Sufferers may experience a sudden sharp pain ranging from mild to very severe. Groin [...]
Exercises for Lower Back Pain Pain and stiffness in the lower back can be a real, well, pain in the back. This is one of the most common areas of the body where people experience pain, and up to 80% of us will experience lower back pain at some point in our lives. Although it’s [...]
