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Finding Your Neutral Spine: How to Sit More Comfortably!
If you work in an office chances are you may have experienced a few aches and pains – anywhere from your neck and shoulders to your lower…
Set Yourself Up Right: How to Succeed With Your Meditation Practice
Starting a meditation practice can be challenging. How do you disconnect from a world that’s sending a constant stream of messages and…
Top 5 Tips to Prevent Neck Pain
Chances are that if you have a desk job or a job that requires any prolonged sitting you’ve had a run in or two with neck pain. Or maybe…
Your MRI Report: What Does It All Mean? What Now?
For most people looking at an MRI, CT scan or X-Ray means nothing. Reading the report with all the medical jargon can be both confusing…
Injury Prevention: Stop It Before It Starts – A Case Study
A couple years ago Andy came to me with severe headaches. Andy was a runner who had fractured his ankle 8 months previously. His ankle…
Breathe Right: Is There A “Right” Way to Breathe?
Breathing – the first and last thing you ever will do! As one of our most basic yet fundamental functions, it isn’t natural to think of…
Breathing & the Muscle Connection
Bad breathing – it’s more common than you think. You may be a bad breather and not even realise it. What influences your breathing? 1….
Meditation: 7 Reasons to Start Now
Meditation or mindfulness training is the act of spending time in quiet thought for the purposes of relaxation. We live in a world…
From Head to Toe: A Holistic Approach to Physiotherapy
“The arm bone is connected to the shoulder bone. The shoulder bone is connected to the back bone.” So, the children’s sing-a-long goes….
What You Need to Know about Lower Back & Knee Pain: Getting Caught in the Middle
When it comes to pain and injuries most people can say that they have experienced lower back pain; 80% will have an episode of lower back…
Got Stacked: What is Thoracic Ring Approach™?
The Thoracic Ring Approach™ (TRA) is used to assess and treat the thorax – the thoracic spine and thoracic rings (ribs 1-10). It was…
The Thoracic Ring Approach™: Time to Decompress
In our last blog we introduced the Thoracic Ring Approach™(TRA), a physiotherapy model used to assess and manage dysfunction in the…