Stretches for Lower Back Pain
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 …
Move it or Lose it | Bridget Nash – Exercise Physiologist
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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Mums and Bubs: First Steps 26.11.2020
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 …
Groin or hip pain when squatting?
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 …
Knee Valgus
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 …
Front Squatting
In this video Glenn Hansen discusses front squatting variations for all different levels using a barbell or dumbbell.
