Those old sporting injuries
At this time of year many people are signing up and starting their winter sports. We often find people have finished the last season with some injuries and have optimistically thought that rest over summer would fix the problem. For minor injuries, the rest can be useful in allowing the body to do it’s own recovery of painful muscles. A graduated return to high intensity training and competing allows the muscles to regain strength and control ready for the new season. Continue reading
Sochi – Peter Caine returns
Peter Caine has been involved with the Australian winter Olympic team at the Sochi Olympics and was also at their training camp in Finland in December. Peter has now returned to normal working hours again at Burns Bay Physiotherapy. Behind every athlete is a complete team of coaches and medical staff including physiotherapists. Physiotherapists play an important role in prevention and treatment of injuries for athletes, whether they are elite Olympic athletes or weekend warriors.
Rowing Injuries
Rowing is a fantastic way to get fit, whether you are a school child or an adult, experienced or new to the sport.
Back pain is one of the most common injuries affecting rowers. Factors involved in pain include rowing technique and posture in the boat. The way you sit in a chair is likely to be the way you sit in the boat so if you slouch all day on the lounge or at the desk, it is guaranteed that you will revert to this position in the boat. The good news is with some postural changes that we can teach you, learning how to correct your sitting posture is easy. These changes in posture have been shown to reduce back pain. Continue reading
Best practice back care.
Back pain is one of the most common issues experienced, with an estimated 1/4 of the population reporting back pain on any one day. of these, 25% suffer pain that keeps them off work for an average of 10 days per year, costing approximately $4.8 billion in health care. With these sort of figures you would expect every practitioner treating back pain would be delivering the highest quality treatment and advice. Continue reading
Should I have surgery for the pain?
Often we find that people come in to Burns Bay Physiotherapy wondering whether physiotherapy will be of benefit as they believe that surgery is required to ultimately fix their problem. Sometimes they believe that the surgery should happen as soon as they can get to see a specialist and get it organised. Sometimes they believe that the problem will naturally worsen until eventually they will be cured by surgery. Continue reading
Our Commitment to you.
As part of our commitment to providing the highest quality care to the people of Lane Cove, Burns Bay Physiotherapy will be operating with a skeleton staff on 17th and 18th October as we are attending The Australian Physiotherapists conference in Melbourne. Continue reading
Tradies Health Month
August has been Tradies Health Month. Tradies fix most things but not always themselves. 80% of workplace injuries involve Tradies. 10 Tradies experience serious injuries every day. Avoiding experiencing pain and becoming a statistic is an important message for everyone.
Congratulations to The Village Observer.
Congratulations to the Village Observer for serving the community of Lane Cove so admirably for the last 20 years. Burns Bay Physiotherapy has been serving the community of Lane Cove for 16 1/2 of those years. In that time we have been writing articles in The Village Observer trying to educate people on issues involving musculoskeletal care and wellbeing. In the clinical setting we have been keeping Lane Cove residents moving to the best of their abilities by reducing pain and improving quality of life. Continue reading
Standing
Recently, the Sydney Morning Herald (June, 3) reported the results of some research into the health effects of prolonged sitting undertaken at University of Queensland. Prolonged sitting has been linked with increased risks of diabetes, heart disease, muscle wasting and premature death. It has been likened to the public health risk of smoking. Continue reading
Tendon Problems
Tendon problems are extremely common. They were once called tendonitis and now called tendinopathy. Common areas where tendon problems occur include the elbow (tennis elbow), the shoulder (rotator cuff), the heel (achilles), the hamstrings and the knee (patella tendinopathy.) Continue reading
