If you’ve ever gone mattress shopping you know how confusing, expensive and time-consuming it can be. There’s nothing worse than trying to get through a day when you’ve had a rotten night’s sleep the night before. Tossing and turning on…
Back pain, shoulder pain, headaches, osteoarthritis – we all know someone living with these conditions. Globally it is estimated that one in five people, or about 1.5 billion people, live with chronic pain, with prevalence increasing as we age. This…
Beer belly, love handles, the middle-aged spread – whatever you call it, having a bit of a gut is something many people notice as they age. But just how harmful is a beer belly for health and what are the…
More than six million Australians live with some form of incontinence and yet the majority – 62 per cent – never seek professional help and physiotherapists are often overlooked. Jenny Phillips This is despite evidence that incontinence can be better…
The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) has embraced the latest recommendations from The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) that promote the systemic use of an ‘exercise prescription’ to combat the effects of cancer treatment and improve survival rates. The guidelines recommend that…
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