Muscle Tears or Strains

Muscle Tears or Strains

by | Jan 4, 2024 | Conditions

‘Muscle strains’ and ‘Ligament sprains’ and are often confused and usually written about in tandem, and although the rehabilitation principles are similar they are in fact quite different conditions. Ligaments join bone to bone and injuries occur when there is...
Musculoskeletal Pain

Musculoskeletal Pain

by | Jan 4, 2024 | Conditions

Musculoskeletal pain is pain caused by injury to the bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons and/or nerves. The pain can be either acute or chronic and either localised or widespread. It is basically a summary of all the types of physical pain a person could suffer...
Neck–Arm pain

Neck–Arm pain

by | Jan 4, 2024 | Conditions

Also referred to as ‘Neck-Arm syndrome’, Neck-Arm pain encompasses a number of conditions that affect your neck or upper back, which include some arm symptoms. The most common form is the shoulder variety. Specific to problems that cause referred pain down the arm,...
Osgood Schlatter Disease

Osgood Schlatter Disease

by | Jan 4, 2024 | Conditions

Your child has been complaining about his knee for the last couple of months and in trying to get to the bottom of it you may have been told to let him just push through – “it will pass!” Or he must “stop all sports immediately!” Should you...
Overuse injuries

Overuse injuries

by | Jan 4, 2024 | Conditions

Overuse injuries, as the term implies, are the result of the gradual, repetitive action and overuse of certain muscles, tendons or bones, as opposed to acute injuries, like a sprained ankle, which happen instantaneously. They can happen through sports, be work...