Benefits of Hydrotherapy Hydrotherapy (or Aquatherapy) involves activities/exercises performed in warm water to help assist in rehabilitation of a variety of neurological and musculoskeletal conditions. When partly or fully submerged in warm water, a force known as hydrostatic pressure is exerted on the body. This increase in pressure and temperature promotes an increase in blood […]
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Lower back pain is a common compliant we see as a Physiotherapist, and the importance of regular stretching is often overlooked. Regular stretching of the muscles, ligaments and tendons that support the spine is a key element to any treatment for lower back pain. It may also be the most effective and cost-efficient way to
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What are they?Carbohydrates, also known as carbs or saccharides, is a group of foods that are converted into glucose during digestion. Glucose is a type of sugar that can be used immediately or stored away and be used later for energy. Once carbohydrates turns into glucose, it can raise your blood sugar level. It is
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Looking back at my 5 years at university, one of the areas I would say I had the MOST improvement/growth was my cooking skills and food knowledge. My first year of Brisbane my diet consisted of about 3 meals2 minutes noodles – the chicken flavour don’t even TRY and tell me the beef is better.
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Client Appreciation: Kaylin A huge congratulations to Kaylin who was a part of our first Mums and Bubs group. Last weekend Kaylin competed in her first Crossfit comp after having her little man only 5 months ago. Whilst she wasn’t at her pre baby fitness or strength we are super proud that she had the
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Our mission statement is no matter how we grow, to transform self-belief and physical capacity with unrivalled care. What and how do we define unrivalled care? Glenn Hansen, Founder and Director of Coaching at Vector Health & Performance explains: “When I started coaching people, I drove performance and performance only. I thought to get a
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The miraculous thing about the human body is that it’s alive. And when we are alive, we want to stay alive, so we adapt. When we have a change to our lifestyle, our body undergoes physiological processes to adapt to that change. If you went from off season, into the pre-season for a given sport,
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I wanted to take the time to highlight Hannah MacDonald and the hard work she put in over the past year. Hannah has been working with me since the first week I started at Vector Health a little over a year ago now. At the beginning we had a lot of ideas and dreams about
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NEW YEAR JUNIOR CLINIC ????♀️ Start the year off right with this three-day intensive clinic where you will learn things about nutrition and technique as well as all things mobility, agility, speed, flexibility, strength, and aerobic fitness. Day one and three will be at Vector Health and day 2 will be out at a park
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The last day of this round of Mums and Bubs: First steps class, this called for a step up in exercises and we also got to wind down and learn how to do baby massage at the end with our Musculoskeletal Therapist Lacey Hayes! Thank you to all these lovely ladies for participating in our
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A question we get asked frequently is why this is happening. It could be for many reasons, one of the more common ones is called femoroacetabular impingement, basically what this means is the bone and the socket where your hip and leg meet, there can be rubbing of the bone which is where the pain
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What is it? Basically it is the knee dropping in sideways. You can usually see this when someone is doing squats, lunges and any sort of gait pattern. Why does it happen? It can be for a couple of reasons. Sometimes your abductors can be too tight or overactive, these are the muscles running on the inside
In this video Glenn Hansen discusses front squatting variations for all different levels using a barbell or dumbbell.
