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  4 tips to Squat correctly Squats are one of the best exercises for people with knee pain or arthritis.  They maintain the strength in major leg muscle groups such as glutes (buttocks) and quads (front of the thigh). They are a great weight-bearing exercise for optimizing bone health, Many clients avoid squats due to knee arthritis, but interestingly, people with knee arthritis are often the ones who need squats the most. Strength around the knee joint is the best way to reduce pain and protect the joint surfaces. Your muscles are like the ‘springs’ in your car suspension – they are the ‘shock absorbers’ around your joint. If they are not working optimally, your knee joint will not be happy. In order to get the muscles working optimally, you have to squat correctly. Here are our tips: Keep your knees pointing the same direction as your middle toes! If your feet are pointing straight ahead, your knee-caps should face straight ahead. If your feet are ‘open’ slightly in a V-sha...

  Orthopaedics ( Mandurah Physio) is the branch of medicine concerned with the correction or prevention of deformities, disorders, or injuries of the skeleton and associated structures, such as muscles, tendons, and ligaments. This may be prior to or following surgery or injury. It can involve “pre-hab” which is rehabilitation prior to surgery to improve the outcome, and “rehab”, which occurs following the surgery or injury. It may involve hands-on treatment, exercises in the pool or gym and home exercises. Assessment is vital to ensure that treatment is both safe and effective.

  The carpel tunnel is a narrow bony and soft tissue passageway at the wrist which allows certain nerves and other soft tissue vessels to pass through into the hand. Sometimes pressure can build up in this tunnel causing pressure on the soft tissue structures and often in particular on the nerves passing through. This can cause numbness, pins and needles and often pain.  It is commonly seen during pregnancy or those with excessive fluid.  It is commonly a problem at night due to resting positions of the wrist. Physiotherapy can be of benefit and treatment can be successful with conservative treatments.  We always use our hands!  So living with pain and stiffness in this area can be difficult.  Sometimes surgery is necessary.   Surgery release of this tunnel involves a small operation where they release some of the soft tissue structures in order to take the pressure off these vessels. Following surgery, it will take some time for swelling and pain to ...

  Our Physiotherapists in Rockingham and Mandurah believe exercise is important.  Previously it was thought that once you retired inactivity was acceptable.  It’s now recognised that activity is beneficial throughout our journey. Our bodies are designed to exercise every day.  In fact, if we don’t exercise, just as if we don’t eat, our body literally starts to break down and all sorts of problems emerge e.g. heart, bone/osteoporosis, depression, balance. Mobility and lots more. It is a well-known fact that the way to fitness and good health is a well-balanced diet and regular physical activity. This is especially true and important for the elderly. Recent studies have shown that physical exercise in the twilight years adds quality and vitality to life. One major concern among a lot of people who don’t exercise is the fear of overdoing it and risking injury, especially as we get older.  This concern is valid but should not hinder from reaping the benefits of wha...

  An ankle injury could range from a simple soft tissue sprain to a fracture.  Injury to the talar dome is an injury to part of the ankle joint.  The talar bone is one of the major bones that make up the  joint. An ankle sprain is a soft tissue injury to the ligament structure around the ankle joint most often occurring as you roll on your foot.   Ligaments stabilise joints and prevent excess movement so it stands to reason that if you have a significant soft tissue injury causing lack of stability then the joint may become unstable and may roll so much that the actual joint or part of is damaged.  If severe this may cause a talar dome injury.  The dome aspect of the talus bone, which is the joint surface, becomes damaged. A talar dome injury may be just to the cartilage attached to the bone or to the bone itself or a combination of both.   It is most often diagnosed by bone scan and may not picked up by xray.  A xray will often be ...

While it might sound intimidating, shockwave therapy is a non-invasive treatment used in a variety of health fields, such as physiotherapy, sports medicine, urology, and orthopaedics. Shockwave therapy is an ideal treatment for muscle injuries, relieving acute and chronic pain as well as assisting to speed up your recovery. Shockwave therapy was originally developed to treat kidney stones and gallstones, it’s also effective for plantar fasciitis, calcific tendonitis, knee pain and a range of other treatments. What Issues Can Shockwave Therapy Help You With? Tennis elbow, Achilles tendinopathy, golfers elbow, jumpers knee (patella tendinitis), shoulder bursitis, plantar fasciitis (heel pain), Hip or trochanteric bursitis, hamstrings tendinitis, and muscle knots. What Can I Expect During A Shockwave Therapy Appointment? Before we begin any shockwave therapy treatment w ith you, our physiotherapists will undertake a thorough assessment of your areas of concern to diagnose your injury. I...