Everyone knows that exercise can have an extremely beneficial effect on your health and well-being. This is a common treatment tool used to attack conditions such as diabetes, cardio-vascular disease, obesity, depression and many more conditions. When individuals try to take up exercise for whatever reason this often can end in despair as injuries can… [more]

Exercise alone is a common source of treatment used for any shoulder pathology and is frequently prescribed by any specialist. The rationale behind exercise is that it is used to restore shoulder stability and mobility and improve shoulder/scapula ROM and muscular function. Commonly prescribed exercises focus on the entire kinetic chain from rotator cuff, scapular… [more]

Pain when you move your thumb? There are many causes of thumb pain, but one common one is De Quervains Tenosynovitis. De Quervains Tenosynovitis presents as a sharp pain just below your thumb on the side of your wrist, made worse when moving your thumb out from your hand. You may have some swelling and… [more]

What is it? Shoulder impingement or sub acromion pain syndrome is a complex condition with many contributing factors. It is characterised as pain from compression of the structures within the sub acromial space (between the scapula arch and the head of the arm). Impingement has symptoms of pain when lifting the arm by the side,… [more]

There are muscle groups in our body (inner and outer), which help stabilise your spine. The inner muscles are your pelvic floor, transverse abdominus, multifidus, diaphragm and psoas, while the outer, consist of large superficial muscles that are connected and functionally related. This outer sling system works together to help with the transfer of load… [more]