We as a nation and as RTW professionals, have the potential to be leading the powerful trend supporting General Practitioners in taking the initiative to get patients back to work. Ten years ago The Royal Australasian College of Physicians first released the Australian and New Zealand Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Work. Then […]
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First published April 7 2020 What’s the difference and when you should choose an EP Rehab processes, especially in the world of Occupational Rehabilitation, almost always involve a multidisciplinary team. Physios, Exercise Physiologists, Vocational Consultants, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists (just to name a few!). Most of these disciplines are very clear in their delineation and
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Ahh, work… How about a 365 day holiday every year? It may sound appealing at first… the value of work can often be underestimated. Work impacts our mental health in positive ways (beyond the numbers in the bank account!). Not working for extended periods can actually have a negative impact on our health and quality
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When is the best time to start an exercise physiology program to get the most out of it? Exercise is magic. Sometimes there barriers. There are a few factors to consider..
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The use of exercise to assist in rehabilitation and reconditioning after a bone or muscle injury is well established, so much so that it would be considered a faux pas if there was no exercise component during an expected recovery. Cardiac rehab has been a thing, with movement slowly creeping into recovery since the 1950s,
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It’s Exercise Right Week, May 25th-31st 2020, and the theme this year is “Movement Is Medicine.” Let’s explore this, through the lenses of Return to Work and Return to Life, because that’s what we specialise in! Exercise and Medicine – Definitions When most people think “medicine” they think “pill.” There are two general meanings of
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Everyone knows that you send a claimant with a musculoskeletal injury to an Exercise Physiologist when they’re ready for a focused work and life conditioning program. So as you can imagine a large proportion of our work is with musculoskeletal injuries: rotator cuff tears, frozen shoulder, whiplash, carpel tunnel, lower back strains, disc bulges, ACL
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Both great glute, hammy & quad exercise, but can you pick which one is more Functional?
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Meet Mark Watson and one of his very happy clients!! Mark delivers a brief overview of a knee rehabilitation program executed perfectly. Sometimes patients are quick to jump to the option of surgery when it’s recommended by their Doctor as they believe that it’s their only way forward and often they’re unaware of the recovery
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Hi guys. Brad here from Specialised Health. I wanted to put this quick little video together because I just did an appointment earlier today, where I was working with a fellow on a knee injury and was talking to him a lot about movement patterns and the importance of using a really sound hip movement pattern when doing squatting movements. I wanted to do this quick video because I’ve been talking to insurance case managers lately about what movement patterns are, what the point of optimising these is, and how that can help somebody improve their function.
Looking at the first example now of this fellow in the video above, you can see the knee angle he started with. If you see the line inserted and you can see where the knees are in front of the toes and essentially moving his centre of gravity over the balls of the feet, what that requires is, therefore, a lot of quadricep activation to raise his body and that, therefore, puts a lot of pressure on the knees.
With the second example, you can see that we moved the centre of gravity a bit further back, so it’s more over the centre of the feet or over the heels. What that then causes is the hips, the glutes, the hamstrings to really be the prime movers through the movement.
Through optimising that movement pattern, this guy can stop putting so much pressure on the knees and create, actually, a lot more force by using the hips. That’ll give him a greater lifting capacity, greater squatting capacity. That’s a really good example of using movement patterns or optimising movement patterns to illicit more function.
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