If you’ve suffered from chronic pain for months (or even years!) and you’ve finally got that surgery date booked in, it might seem a bit counter-intuitive to start ramping up your exercise training… You’ll just have to start from scratch again after the surgery anyway, right? Well, not quite! Prehabilitation, or “prehab” for short, is […]
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If ever anyone were up for a return to work challenge, James Danos, our Melbourne-based Exercise Physiologist, would have to take the cake! Getting someone back to their full-time hours after an injury can be challenging enough in itself… But what if full-time hours for that person meant an 86 hour work roster? 86 hours.
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Active vs passive treatment. Which is better? Ok, yes, we as Exercise Physiologists obviously love prescribing therapy that is “active” in nature. It’s what we’re trained in and it’s what we see, day in and day out, bring the most benefit to patients referred for our services. It would, however, be naive of us to
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People who experience non-specific low back pain often say things like – ‘I have a weak back’, or ‘I need to strengthen my core’. But working in the industry, you are quick to realise – it’s typically not as simple as that. Crunches, sit-ups, and back extensions tend not to be the top of the
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One of the things that set us aside as an EP company, is our unwavering dedication to specificity in the return-to-work space. We understand that, To get better at drawing, you need to draw more… To get better at baking cakes, you need to bake cakes more… To get better at lifting pallets over your
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Purposeful Pain Pain is a normal and important part of our life. It is our most loyal guardian, always keeping a watchful eye out for us. More than anything, it wants to keep us safe, protected, and out of harms way. Just imagine a life without it – we would be constantly discovering cuts, burns
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Your Question: “Who would you suggest I should see to improve my overall posture? I think it has worsened since I gained weight. And is it going to be something I’ll need to be consistent on training with? Because I suck at that.” (Repost from July 2020) Our Answer Great question and thanks for sending
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Semantics “Bone-on-Bone” generally refers to the condition of Osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a “disease” of the joints which results in narrowing of the joint space through articular cartilage degeneration and consequent parts of the bone thickening. For a recap, articular cartilage is the connective tissue at the end of bones which decreases friction between the bones
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Both great glute, hammy & quad exercise, but can you pick which one is more Functional?
What are these “Functional Exercises” EPs keep going on about? Read More »
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
