You may be suffering from rib pain if you have been experiencing: Sharp pain or ache in the thorax; often between your shoulder blades and spine, or the lower part of your chest. Pain or catching in your chest or thorax when you turn your head. Acute tightness/stiffness...
The Australian Government removed Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) items from the Medicare Benefits Schedule in 2005 and replaced them with Chronic Disease Management (CDM) items. The terminology Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Plan never took off and people still refer to their ‘Care Plans’ as EPC Plans. For...
Almost everyone can suffer from lower back pain at some point in their life. If you’re one of the lucky ones, the pain is caused by a specific activity, which if avoided, can resolve with rest, over time. Unfortunately, not everyone is that lucky and some must learn...
Myth shattering fact number 1: There is no such thing as TENDONITIS! When I was first trained to become a physio we treated tendon pain with rest, ice and anti-inflammatories thinking it was an inflammatory response we were dealing with. This treatment was never very effective,...
If you suffer from chronic headaches or migraines, you’ve probably seen your doctor to get help… and most likely received a prescription for pain medication. While it might make you feel better momentarily, medication won’t actually FIX anything. It’s a band-aid solution – blocking the pain temporarily,...
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 1 in 4 of us will experience lower back pain at any given time. And almost ALL of us will experience a form of back pain at least once during our lives. Those are pretty scary statistics! Worse yet,...
Have you ever felt disappointed to find that your pain has returned a few weeks or months after seeing a Physio? At Physio Fit Studio, we teach our patients that pain is the last symptom to manifest and the first symptom to go. Pain is simply...
We’ve all experienced pain at one time or another. Most of us avoid it at all costs – but have you ever taken the time to think about what pain is? And how it might be helping us? Pain is influenced by many physical and emotional factors, and can...
Tech Neck is a colloquial term used to describe the repetitive strain injury to the head, neck, upper thorax and shoulder blades caused by long and/or repetitive periods of looking forward and down at an electronic device. As you might imagine, it’s a pervasive problem today...
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