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Osteoarthritis and Exercise

Will Exercise make my OA worse?   As physiotherapists, we frequently get asked  if exercising is safe after a daignosis of knee OA. Despite people being more aware how exercising is the magic pill to many diseases, we seem to continue to believe that once we have...

Mindfulness in 2019

Is Mindfulness the next big thing? In a word of increasing stress and technological advances,  it is often too easy for us to prioritise the world around us before our own wellbeing. Whether it be due to long work hours, running around our kids or the pressures...

Calf Pain?

What’s the cause? If you’re experiencing some calf pain and wondering if you have injured your calf. Believe it or not there are in fact 3 different sources of pain that can be felt in this region. They are… Muscular Neural Vascular But how can we differentiate...

The Post Pregnancy Tummy

Will I get my flat tummy back? What is it? Rectus abdominis diastasis (RAD) is a widening of the abdominal muscle wall resulting in the separation of the two main abdominal muscles (rectus abdominis) by increasing the width of the linea alba. What is normal? Normal...

The Barefoot Runner

Where are we in 2019? In 2010 Daniel Lieberman and fellow colleagues took to the skeletal biology lab at Harvard university to ask, how and why humans can and did run comfortably without modern running shoes. Before we come to the hypothesised answer we need to...