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Saving Your Kids from a Life of Back Pain

We often think of chronic low back pain as a problem for middle-aged adults. Unfortunately, a recent study of more than 1,000 children age 10 to 17 finds that this common problem affects our children as well

Three Top Strategies for Protecting Bone Health

Projections show the prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia in Australians age 50+ increasing from 66% in 2012 to 86% in 2022.[1]

New Study Finds Running Barefoot is More Efficient that Running with Shoes

Running barefoot obviously changes gait patterns. Specifically, when running with shoes, we are more likely to land on our heels, and we use longer strides.

Running Over the Idea that Running Causes Heart Attacks

Over the past decade, a debate about the healthiness of endurance running has simmered.

How Believers Perform Better but Don’t Believe It

A sports psychology study shows the profound effects of belief, brands, and the complications of detecting them.

Physiotherapy Reduces Opioid Use

High-income countries have witnessed a dramatic rise in opioid-related deaths over the past two decades.1

Appreciating the Effects of Bed Rest on Older Patients

Bed rest serves as a time-honored recommendation for both injury and illness. However, the drawbacks of bed rest include a somewhat surprising list of consequences: decreased heart volume, increased insulin resistance, skeletal muscle atrophy, muscle denervation, triggering of neurodegenerative processes, and decreased oxygen uptake capacity.1

The Science of How to Squat

Squats are an important exercise. They protect our ability to perform various actions effectively and without injury: lifting, running, climbing stairs, etc. We often read advice on how to perform squats based on professional opinion or expert consensus.

How to Predict, Prevent, and Overcome Knee Pain

Knee pain affects one in three people in parts of Australia.1 When walking makes the knee pain flare up, people often begin avoiding physical activity for fear of worsening their knee. Consequently, this barrier to physical activity contributes to physical disability.2

ICU Physiotherapy Did Not Prevent Prolonged Weakness Among COVID ICU Survivors

While healthcare has been rapidly building knowledge about COVID-19, data regarding post-COVID, long-term sequelae is only beginning to trickle in

Back Pain: Early Physiotherapy Pays for Itself by Reducing Other Healthcare Spen

A new study with nearly one million people finds that early physiotherapy for everyone would largely pay for itself by reducing spending on emergency departments, advanced imaging, and other healthcare spending.

Heart Healthy Exercises for Women: Aerobic or Resistance?

It’s a classic question. Which is better for your goal: strength or endurance training?

Elastic Taping: Is it a Stretch to Believe It Could Help with Osteoarthritis?

Elastic athletic tape has been used in various settings with goals such as inhibiting pain, increasing muscle strength, facilitating motor skills, and reducing muscle fatigue – especially when sports injuries or musculoskeletal disorders are present.

Ankle Sprain: Getting Back to Action Faster!

Following an ankle sprain, full recovery before return to sport or full activity is important.

Risk of ACL Injury Soars Five Times Higher after an Ankle Sprain

Ankle sprains are common. Given time, most begin to feel better on their own, and people return to full activity. Unfortunately, these circumstances may be lulling people into believing they have fully recovered

Bigger Waists: Are They Unavoidable with Age?

It’s obvious that we get wider with age. What may be less obvious is why

Elbow Pain: Treat or Wait?

The common term is tennis elbow. It refers to pain on the outside of the elbow and results from all sorts of repetitive activities, not just tennis and not just sports.

Knee Osteoarthritis: What Works?

Osteoarthritis is Not Just for Seniors Arthritis is often thought of as a problem that only affects a more mature population. In fact, one form of arthritis, osteoarthritis of the knee, is a problem for younger, more active people as well.

Low Speed Crashes Pose Significant Injury Risk

An important new study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health shows that conventional thinking may be wrong

What is the Best Type of Protein Powder?

People looking to enhance the effects of their workouts often use protein powder supplements. Why? Protein consumption strategies increase muscle hypertrophy, increase fat-free mass, and decrease fatty mass

Back Pain – What Works? Results of the Largest Meta-analysis.

Worldwide, low back pain causes nearly 24 billion days lived with disability each year. From the first decade of this century to the second, that sum of disability increased 17.5%.

Whiplash Physiotherapy: How Much is Enough?

Whiplash associated disorder (WAD) encompasses a syndrome of symptoms that may result from an acceleration/deceleration injury of the neck - especially disability and neck pain.

Smart Watch Approved for Detecting Atrial Fibrillation

One out of every 50 Australians deals with atrial fibrillation (AF).1 This condition involves an irregular – often rapid – heartbeat leading to poor blood flow.

What’s the Best Timing for Protein?

We all know that we need to eat protein to maintain and build muscles. Malnutrition in this regard can make exercise counterproductive to building strength. But does it matter when the protein is consumed?

Whiplash: When to Begin Treatment

The science demonstrates unequivocally that whiplash should receive physiotherapy within 96 hours of the injury.1-

Is Straight-back Lifting Really Better than Rounded-Back Lifting?

Three out of four physiotherapists will tell you that straight-back lifting is better for your back than rounded-back lifting.1

Meniscal Tear Knee Injury in a Younger Adult? Consider Physiotherapy

It is well established that physiotherapy is a good first-line treatment for certain meniscal tears in the knee, and that physiotherapy is not inferior to a common surgery.

Post-exercise Stretching: Separating Theory from Fact

Why do we stretch at the end of a workout? Some people skip it altogether. What are they missing? If you are like many of us, you have been told that stretching will prevent sore muscles or increase range of motion

Exercise That Works for Low Back Pain

Across Australia, the cost of low back pain is on the rise, but outcomes are not improving.

Getting Thinner: Weight Training vs. Aerobics

You only have so much time in a day. We get it. Every temptation around us and every influence looks like something that will take away physical activity and add calories

Laughter is the Best Medicine

We all know that laughing makes us feel better, but do you really know why? Science is finding multiple interesting answers about the medical and psychological benefits of laughter.

COVID Recovery – The Other Part of the Story

The data regarding recovery from a severe COVID infection is still in its nascent stages. We know that exercise intolerance, even months after a case of COVID-19, is common.1

Exercising with Arthritis – Start S.M.A.R.T.

Naturally, arthritis pain can slow people down. With a normal age of onset as early as 30, it’s a common misconception that inactivity can preserve arthritic joints. It turns out that the opposite is true. Not exercising can worsen the pain and invite more problems.

Can Vegans Build Muscle and Have Endurance?

It’s a constant question and concern, especially among people who prefer high muscle mass. Can a vegan or vegetarian diet support muscle building?

Inactivity Proves More Deadly than Obesity

Just a little bit of exercise can go a long way. In fact, a large study shows that twice as many premature deaths occur due to lack of activity compared to the premature deaths attributed to obesity.

They Say Frozen Shoulder is Self-resolving, but . . .

Affecting an estimated 2% to 5% of the general population, adhesive capsulitis (also known as frozen shoulder) ranks as the leading cause of pain at the shoulder joint among the middle-age and older.1

Preventing Chronic Opioid Use After Surgery

Surgeons need to manage a patient’s pain after surgery, and opioid medications have long been part of that. One challenge is that surgical pain managed by opioids increases the risk of chronic opioid use.

Get More of a Workout in Less Time

You may have already heard about high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and how it can improve the outcomes of your workout. The truth of the matter is that different workouts are best for different people and different goals

Do I Have a Rotator Cuff Tear?

With a superlative capacity for motion, the shoulder joint can experience multiple sources of pain. One of the more problematic shoulder conditions is the rotator cuff tear.

Tennis Elbow - So Much More than Tennis

Tennis elbow refers to a repetitive use disorder causing recurring pain on the outside of the elbow. Without treatment beyond anti-inflammatory approaches, recurrence is high

The Association of Smartphones, Back Pain in Adolescents, and Sitting Posture

For many of us, smartphones have become as essential as shoes. This greater connectivity seems to come with some orthopaedic drawbacks. You may have heard the term “text neck.”

Osteoarthritis – Belief Matters

Research out of the UK finds that 50% of people with severe, disabling knee pain do not seek a healthcare consultation.1 Why? Beliefs

Lunchtime Walks Make Happier Workers. It’s Science.

We’ve all heard that exercise is good for both the body and mind. But squeezing exercise into a modern, hectic lifestyle could be another matter. If the promise of better fitness isn’t getting you there, what if we told you exercise will help you enjoy your job more?

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