This time of year we find more patients are complaining of pain in their heel/s and/or the sole of their foot. One explanation may be...

Headaches are no fun. Some people will only experience short-term headaches every now and then, but for some people headaches are...

Winter sports are back and with them come more muscle strains, particularly hamstrings, quadriceps and calves. So what is a muscle...

I'm sure we've all experienced painful muscle cramps in muscles like the hamstrings, calf or quadriceps during or following exercise....

One of the key things that patients expect when visiting a physiotherapist is a diagnosis. But is a diagnosis necessary, and is it even...

It's a commonly reported phenomenon that people with chronic pain experience worse symptoms in winter. But why would this be? One or a...

The current environment makes it hard for many of us to work as much exercise into our routine as we'd like. We know there are many...

Modern technology allows for consultations with health professionals to occur via a video link, and this is referred to as "telehealth"....

People with chronic pain often find it difficult to know where to go for help. They can get conflicting information from different health...

Lower back pain, the majority of the time, is a temporary annoyance that will resolve fairly quickly, sometimes requiring a period of...

Lateral hip pain, that is pain on the outside of the hip, is a very common complaint, particularly among middle-aged women. Often people...

"Rotator cuff" is a phrase we come across often when talking about shoulder injuries. But what exactly is it, what does it do and how do...

Often people experiencing a headache are also experiencing neck pain/tightness at the same time. There are different ways that neck pain...

Even kids need physio sometimes. Sure, they're less prone to things like back pain, neck pain and injuries than the rest of us, but...

The shoulder is a very common site of musculoskeletal pain. We hear terms like "bursitis" and "frozen shoulder" but what do they mean?...

Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylalgia (which literally means "pain on the outside of the elbow"), is the most common non-traumatic...

Pes anserine bursitis is a seldom thought of, but surpringly common cause of knee pain. The pes anserinus (latin for goose's foot) is an...

When muscles feel tight, what exactly does that mean? The feeling of tightness in muscles is related to their length and their resting...

Maybe it's time we stop thinking of pain as simply a bad thing. Pain obviously serves an important evolutionary purpose. Namely, it...

Conventional wisdom has been that if you tear your ACL and want to return to sports such as football, soccer, netball, basketball etc,...