What are these “Functional Exercises” EPs keep going on about?
Both great glute, hammy & quad exercise, but can you pick which one is more Functional?
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Education
The Secret Weapon: HRV
We like to stay up to date with technology and research, and that’s why we use HRV. Seeing as it’s a big part of most of our programs, we thought we should give you some insight into what it actually is and how we use it! HRV in History Using pulse as a measure of
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😭 Chronic Pain vs Persistent Pain 😣
Chronic Pain vs Persistent Pain – What’s the Difference? Chronic! What are your associations with the word ‘chronic?’ Imagine you were told that you have something “Chronic”. How does it make you feel? Scared? Disempowered? Stuck with something.. ..FOREVER?!Now imagine you’ve been told you have something which is “Persistent”. What’s the difference? Do you
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🏆 Motivational Interviewing in Rehab 🏋️♀️ – Part 2
Following up from Part 1 of Motivational Interviewing in Rehab, we’ve provided some extra detail at a time where adherence can falter and some recovery strategies might be needed! The Principles and The How to of Motivationally Interviewing Motivational Interviewing is: “A directive, patient-centred counselling style for eliciting behaviour change by helping patients to explore and
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🚴♀️ Exercise and Motivational Interviewing 🗣 in Rehab
April is an exciting month for Australians with consecutive public holidays, Easter, school holidays and Anzac day often meaning that many families will take time away and hit the road for a break. However, this poses a risk of faltering adherence to Rehab. To keep Rehab moving forward in this busy time we discuss a
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Low back pain can affect your life in unexpected ways (luckily, we have some exercises to help)
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
A great case study and an exercise you might not have seen for LB pain
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
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Creative thinking in an exercise physiology program to minimise Yellow Flags
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
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The role of EP during chemotherapy and post-cancer fatigue
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
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