Physiotherapists with a Special Interest in Sports Injuries and Pain Management. Branches in Alberton and Greenstone, Johannesburg
As physiotherapists we often deal with a lot of myofascial problems. Most people understand the first part of this word i.e. Myo-referring to the muscular system but I want to explain the second component of this word a little better – Fascia - and its relevance to how your body functions. Firstly – [...]
So as promised, following my last article “Sitting posture and (D)evolution of man”, here are a few stretches that you can do at your office or home to help loosen up those stiff muscles affected by poor sitting posture. Please note that these are general stretches for people without neck or lower back pain. If [...]
As a physio, I often hear these questions: • “What type of exercise should I be doing to build muscle? • “I’m going to gym and training hard…but I don’t see the results on the sports field. What am I doing wrong?” Here’s some food for thought: In order to obtain maximum muscle growth [...]
FACT: Human beings were not designed to sit for hours on end… Sitting posture is a constant topic that raises its “crooked” head up at nearly every physio appointment. Why? Well because as physiotherapists, we are constantly battling the negative effects of sitting for hours on end. The human spine is divided into 4 distinct [...]
While not typically physiotherapy-related I thought it important to write on something everybody should know a little bit about – First Aid. First Aid refers to emergency assistance given to an injured or ill person using readily available materials. This aid ranges from something as basic as removing a splinter from a child’s finger and [...]
I thought I would just share a neat little trick that I teach most of my patients to manage their own muscular issues. Its so easy and effective that most of my patients end up saying ,”Why didn’t I think of that??”. All you need is a wall or floor and a tennis ball….Place the [...]
A Total Hip Replacement - or THR as we like to call it in this business – is a surgical procedure in which diseased cartilage and bone, located at the head of the femur and acetabular cap, are replaced with artificial materials (a prosthesis). More often than not, this is an elective procedure. Therefore, [...]
Having repeated this bit of info over and over again to a lot of my patients, I decided its time to put it in writing…. Lets me just start off by saying, Anti-Inflammatories are over-prescribed! At the first sign of any pain or swelling, a doctor will usually pull out his/her referral pad and write [...]
Our bodies were designed to move and participate in the different activities of daily living. So what happens when we, recovering from an injury or illness, find ourselves restricted to bed rest for a prolonged period of time? The way in which immobility affects our body and what we can do to prevent the associated [...]