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

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

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

Medical imaging technology seems great, right? It can take pictures of what your tissues look like and tell you exactly...

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

When muscles feel tight, what exactly does that mean? Maybe it's time we stop thinking of pain as simply a...

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

A fairly common cause of buttock pain is piriformis syndrome. Pain from this condition is usually felt in the buttocks...

We think of the knee as one joint. And while "the knee" primarily refers to the joint between the femur...

Calf pain and/or tightness is a very common complaint in runners. While we might be familiar with the concept of...

When you get tendon pain then tendency is to rest. Exercise makes the tendons hurt, so resting will make them...

Ankle sprains are the most common sports injury. One in five patients seen in an emergency room for a sports...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a super common condition causing joint pain. It may effect a number of different joints in the...

When people come in complaining of "hip pain" they are sometimes referring to the groin, sometimes to their lower back,...

Regular readers of these blog posts will know that I'm often banging on about the advancements in our understanding of...

Anyone who watched game 5 of the NBA finals a couple of days ago would have seen Golden State Warriors'...

*"Strength" incorporates power generation, endurance and control. These all play a role in preventing different injury mechanisms, but for the...

I have seen, literally, zero people with golfer's elbow who actually play golf (I have seen golfers that are suffering...

Load is a common cause of chronic lower back pain (Lower back pain that has lasted longer than three months)....

The sacroiliac joint (SIJ) is an often underlooked potential source of lower back pain. It's particularly common to be a...

Now there's a big important question that I, perhaps, should have addressed in a blog post earlier. I think there's...

Kinesiology taping has been around since the 1970s, but a surge in awareness of it and its popularity occurred after...

At this time of year many of us up our exercise levels. Heat's no longer an excuse not to exercise,...

Bursitis is a common condition. But what is it exactly? You might have a friend that has bursitis of the...

Since the inception of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition it's seen a high rate of ACL injuries. The injury report...

When we think of what physiotherapists try to do, we generally think about them trying to relieve very immediate symptoms,...

Overuse injuries are common when you're starting a new exercise regime, or increasing your exercise load. It can be disheartening....

Muscle tears and muscle strains are common sporting injuries. Particularly now that we are heading into the winter sports season,...

Our understanding has come along way in recent years, in terms of shoulder pain that in the past we would...

Many office workers are no strangers to neck and upper back pain. Ever wondered why? Or how to treat or...

Fibromyalgia is a condition which causes widespread chronic (persistent) pain, and has associated sleep problems, depressed mood, fatigue and cognitive...

Back pain is one of the most common reasons for presenting to a GP. It's also an enigma. It's less...

I read a post on facebook recently. Someone was asking for recommendations for a health professional, because they'd been to...

It can be a scary experience when it happens, but it's very common. You wake up with pain in one...

Back pain is a very common condition. Most people will experience back pain during their lives. For many this will...

Pain in the sole of the foot or heel pain is more common in the summer. "Why?" you may ask....

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

As we come to the end of the year, many of us start setting goals for next year. Many of...

What's the point of a warm up and cool down before and after an exercise session? It's just a time...

You might have heard of shin splints before. They're a fairly common injury, particularly in runners and people playing sports...

I get this question all the time. Unfortunately, the answer is complicated. Wouldn't that be nice, if there was an...

Also known as Achilles tendinitis, Achilles tendinopathy is a fairly common affliction, particularly in people in their thirties. Runners and...

Those of you with whom I've diagnosed "infrapatellar fat pad impingement" know that it's a tongue-twister of a diagnosis. But...

Have you seen the rise in the use of foam rollers and wondered what it's all about? What does it...

"My hamstrings are always tight." Is this you? Maybe it's someone you know, or multiple people you know. Tightness in...

Knee pain and heel pain are common complaints in kids, particularly active kids between the ages of 10-14 years. Common...

For many people, a big reason for exercising is the desire to lose some excess weight. But for many, despite...

You might not know much about your 'core' but you've probably heard that it (and it's stability) is important, particularly...

Have you ever had this happen to you? You bend down to pick something up, or maybe you combine lifting...

I promised more blog posts on specifics related to chronic pain, so here we go. A lot of chronic pain...

Ankles sprains are the most commonly sustained sporting injury. As an example, between 70-80% of basketball players have had at...

Headaches suck. We've almost all had them and they're no fun. A lot of the time headaches don't last too...

The treatment of chronic pain is a particular interest of mine. So I thought I should probably take the time...

We spend around a third of our lives asleep. So just how beneficial is sleep to our health? And how...

Surely everyone has tried stretching before. But what exactly does stretching do and how does it do it? And how...

Have you ever thought about how you're moving your shoulder blade? The answer's probably no, right? Well you're not alone....

Poor posture often gets the blame for causing lower back pain. While it probably gets the blame more often than...

You've sprained your ankle, or strained your calf, or done a similar acute injury. How you manage it in the...