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🕵️‍♂️ September 2020 Review 🕵️‍♀️ Read More »
“DecemBeard” – Raising Awareness for Bowel Cancer Australia 1st – 31st December 2017 From Specialised Health’s Exercise Physiologist, Jennifer Smallridge: Aside from Santa Claus, you might be seeing a few more beards around in December, thanks to Bowel Cancer Australia’s “DecemBeard” campaign. For the fifth year running, DecemBeard encourages men to grow their facial hair
Bowel Cancer – What You Need to Know about Prevention and Treatment Read More »
In our previous article, we gave a comprehensive background of perinatal depression and anxiety with a particular focus on postnatal depression (PND), in light of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Awareness Week from November 12th to 18th. In this update, you will find out why a multidisciplinary approach to PND works, and how best to provide
Perinatal Anxiety and Depression – Eating and exercising your way back to health Read More »
Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Awareness Week 12th – 18th November 2017 By Jennifer Smallridge, Accredited Exercise Physiologist At Specialised Health, our Exercise Physiologists are frequently working with customers with a diagnosed mental illness such as depression, anxiety, PTSD or bipolar disorder. One less frequently encountered condition in the Life Insurance space is Perinatal Depression.
Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Read More »
From Specialised Health’s Exercise Physiologist Jennifer Smallridge: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among Australian women – the chances are that you’ve been involved in a case with a breast cancer survivor. Fortunately, 89 out of 100 women1 diagnosed with invasive breast cancer
We recommend clicking settings at the bottom of the video above and turning on subtitles. A few months ago I penned an article on Linkedin which you can see here titled “The Future for Rehabilitation?”. In it i explained Paul’s situation. Paul was a Cattle Farmer living in outback Victoria who had torn his supraspinatus tendon lifting a fencepost
For better viewing and to not disturb anybody we recommend you turn on subtitles for this video, click on settings at the bottom of the video above. For obvious reasons, low back pain is tough to deal with. But what many people don’t realize is that, beyond the hurting, low back pain also affects many
Kris Scaife explains one key exercise he used to take a patient from being unable to bend and reach past her knees to doubling her sit to stand speed and being able to lift from the ground again, all at the same time as kick starting her return to work process. Enter Kris: The patient
A great case study and an exercise you might not have seen for LB pain Read More »
Throughout all exercise physiology programs, whether they’re instantly recognisable or slowly identified over the course of a few sessions, Yellow Flags will impact a rehabilitation program whether you like it or not. Protection is natural After experiencing some form of trauma, the body’s natural, in-built, response mechanism is to minimise further damage and protect the body
Creative thinking in an exercise physiology program to minimise Yellow Flags Read More »
Meet our Brisbane based Exercise Physiologist, Kris Scaife. Kris is a lecturer at the University of Queensland where he teaches Exercise Prescription for Metabolic Conditions, Ageing and Cancer and well as being the go-to EP for the Oncologists at Greenslopes Hospital, Kris also provides his Exercise Physiology services to Specialised Health clients throughout the Brisbane
The role of EP during chemotherapy and post-cancer fatigue Read More »
