What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession that focuses on helping individuals improve their physical function and mobility, manage pain, and prevent or rehabilitate injuries or disabilities. Physiotherapists are highly trained healthcare professionals who use various techniques and modalities to assess, diagnose, and treat a wide range of musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiorespiratory conditions.
In private physiotherapy, physiotherapists utilise various skill sets to treat injured patients. Firstly, they assess and evaluate a patient’s physical and mental condition using their detailed knowledge of anatomy and their excellent observational skills built through training and studying for four years at a university in Australia whilst working with a range of patients in private and hospital systems.
Should I see a Physio for my Neck Pain?
It’s best to see a Physio as soon as you have neck pain. Even though it may be acute and not improve drastically, a Physio will be able to give guidance on what to do and what not to do with your neck pain. This will speed up your recovery from your pain and also prevent it from coming back again.
What is the Most Common Wrist Injury from Weight lifting?
What is the most common Wrist Injury from lifting you ask? Maybe you’ve been suffering through some recent workouts with wrist pain that’s come from nowhere and limited your ability to catch weight or hold weight in the front rack position, use a kettlebell, do an overhead squat or a handstand hold? Well, let us help you work out what might be happening with your wrist.
How do I Train for the Splits?
In order to train for the splits, first figure out which muscles or joints are actually tight, versus which ones need to be strengthened. This will determine what you need to work on and focus your attention on.
Working with a Physiotherapist can help you understand your body, and what each soft tissue needs. This will help set you up for success and help you avoid the monotonous stretching of hamstrings and hip flexors with no improvement in your splits.
Is it worth paying for Private Physio in Australia?
Physios are definitely worth the money in Australia. Here’s why. Physios not only help you with the physical limitations of your injury or pain, by helping alleviate pain and discomfort through hands on treatment such as massage or dry needling. Physios are also worth the money because they help with the psychological effects of an injury on your lifestyle, relationships and work, by calming you and guiding you through the process of injury, including determining how long your pain will take to dissipate. Furthermore, private physios are worth their weight in gold, as they can communicate with your coaches, General Practitioner, Employer and partners/parents, in order to communicate with them what is going on, or what has occurred and its likelihood of recovery.
Why do I have Tensor Fasciae Latae pain?
Typically with TFL pain there is general aching around the upper thigh just slightly on the lateral side, but sometimes this can come and go, it can also refer to the lower leg into the outside quadriceps, iliotibial band or around your glutes and into your lower back. Remember normally there’s been dysfunction elsewhere to cause tfl pain as we will discuss soon.
Why You’re Unable to Hit Depth in your Squat
I’m now officially (and always have been) the oldest person working at Evolutio. Safe to say I’ve been around the physio block a couple of times and have seen and worked with a range of peeps, made a few mistakes, learnt from those mistakes and had a few wins too.
Peace & Love
Anyone involved in any form of sport and exercise knows the age-old acronym RICE. Rest, ice, compress, elevate. Damaged your hamstring? Your trainer will hog-tie it to your leg until it turns purple and screams with repulsion.
However, later that night, you’re at home watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire slayer, with the ice hanging there like a warm mojito, you suddenly can't remember what the trainer told you. Was it 20 minutes every 15 minutes, 20 minutes every hour, or an hour every 20 minutes? Furthermore, your partner no longer thinks it's cute that you're injured, and looking after you is getting damn tiresome.