Decoding Sports Drinks: Unravelling the Hypotonic, Isotonic, and Hypertonic Puzz
Last month, we reported on the science showing that some hypotonic sports drinks can hydrate the body better than water!
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Empowering Women's Health: Our Pelvic Floor Physio and Exercise Services
In April, we welcomed Jessica Dingle to our physiotherapy team. She has earned graduate certificates in both pelvic floor physiotherapy and exercise and women’s health through the University of Melbourne.
New Study Finds Some Sports Drinks Better than Water, But Not All
A new study out of Massey University in New Zealand, and recently published in Sports Medicine, finds that some sports drinks are better for hydration than water itself, but not all.1
How Being Slow Loses Weight
In the pursuit of weight loss, various strategies have been explored, ranging from dietary modifications to increased physical activity. Here’s one you may not have seen before: the speed at which we consume our meals
Back Pain is Not an Injury. It’s Not a Disease.
What is the World’s Most Disabling Condition? The Lancet’s Low Back Pain Series Working Group published today’s definitive paper for summarizing the condition we call non-specific low back pain (LBP) (1).
Six Things You Can Do to Manage Joint Health
Sometimes we feel like painful joints are just something we are going to have to live with, even to the point of near disability
Heat Wraps for Back Pain Melting the Pain Away or Firing Up the Problem?
A recent, multi-national study out of Europe is heating up the old debate about heat treatments for non-specific back pain.1 It’s an important question.
A Low-carb Diet Reduced Total Work Capacity
Nutritional strategies need to be specific to individual goals. With evidence that they may decrease the risk of diabetes, decrease heart disease, and improve weight loss, low-carb diets prove popular
Australia’s Senior Fall-death Rate Rose 37% over 10 Years.
Consider Exercise Physiology and Physiotherapy at the First Sign of Trouble .In 2020, the peer-review journal, Maturitis, published a study documenting a dramatic rise in age-adjusted, fall-death rates across Australia.1
The Expensive Running Shoe Advantage: In Your Head or In Your Sole?
Have you ever wondered if more expensive running shoes work better for you than less expensive shoes?
One Minute of Jogging for Bone Health
Poor bone health is rapidly increasing in Australia. There’s an estimated 31% increase predicted from year 2012 to present.1
Prescribe Physiotherapy to Save the Oceans! . . .?
Earlier this year, professors from LJ University (Ahmedabad, India) and UiT The Arctic University of Norway published a paper connecting stressors on marine life with modern healthcare.
Self-treatment for Back Pain Found Not Effective
Nonspecific low back pain (LBP) ranks as one of the most common and costly musculoskeletal disorders. Despite a strong focus on the problem for decades, healthcare spending on this problem continues to rise. Nonspecific low back pain (LBP) ranks as one of the most common and costly musculoskeletal disorders. Despite a strong focus on the problem for decades, healthcare spending on this problem continues to rise.
Running from Death: It Doesn’t Take Much
How much exercise does it really take? Everyone tells us to stay active, but do some recommendations ask too much and end up discouraging some people
Rheumatoid Arthritis New Research to Guide Clinical Management
Over the past decade, Advanced Physiotherapy has published 15 bulletins outlining the research demonstrating supervised exercise therapy to be a good first-line treatment in osteoarthritis
If You Compete or Exercise for More than an Hour You Need a Nutritional Strategy
In prolonged exercise, athletes burn through considerable amounts of carbohydrates and fluids. If that nutrition is not replenished during the exercise period, performance diminishes.[1]
Saving Your Kids from a Life of Back Pain
We often think of chronic low back pain as a problem for middle-aged adults. Unfortunately, a recent study of more than 1,000 children age 10 to 17 finds that this common problem affects our children as well
Three Top Strategies for Protecting Bone Health
Projections show the prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia in Australians age 50+ increasing from 66% in 2012 to 86% in 2022.[1]
New Study Finds Running Barefoot is More Efficient that Running with Shoes
Running barefoot obviously changes gait patterns. Specifically, when running with shoes, we are more likely to land on our heels, and we use longer strides.
Running Over the Idea that Running Causes Heart Attacks
Over the past decade, a debate about the healthiness of endurance running has simmered.
How Believers Perform Better but Don’t Believe It
A sports psychology study shows the profound effects of belief, brands, and the complications of detecting them.
Physiotherapy Reduces Opioid Use
High-income countries have witnessed a dramatic rise in opioid-related deaths over the past two decades.1
Appreciating the Effects of Bed Rest on Older Patients
Bed rest serves as a time-honored recommendation for both injury and illness. However, the drawbacks of bed rest include a somewhat surprising list of consequences: decreased heart volume, increased insulin resistance, skeletal muscle atrophy, muscle denervation, triggering of neurodegenerative processes, and decreased oxygen uptake capacity.1
The Science of How to Squat
Squats are an important exercise. They protect our ability to perform various actions effectively and without injury: lifting, running, climbing stairs, etc. We often read advice on how to perform squats based on professional opinion or expert consensus.
How to Predict, Prevent, and Overcome Knee Pain
Knee pain affects one in three people in parts of Australia.1 When walking makes the knee pain flare up, people often begin avoiding physical activity for fear of worsening their knee. Consequently, this barrier to physical activity contributes to physical disability.2
ICU Physiotherapy Did Not Prevent Prolonged Weakness Among COVID ICU Survivors
While healthcare has been rapidly building knowledge about COVID-19, data regarding post-COVID, long-term sequelae is only beginning to trickle in
Back Pain: Early Physiotherapy Pays for Itself by Reducing Other Healthcare Spen
A new study with nearly one million people finds that early physiotherapy for everyone would largely pay for itself by reducing spending on emergency departments, advanced imaging, and other healthcare spending.
Heart Healthy Exercises for Women: Aerobic or Resistance?
It’s a classic question. Which is better for your goal: strength or endurance training?
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Elastic Taping: Is it a Stretch to Believe It Could Help with Osteoarthritis?
Elastic athletic tape has been used in various settings with goals such as inhibiting pain, increasing muscle strength, facilitating motor skills, and reducing muscle fatigue – especially when sports injuries or musculoskeletal disorders are present.
Ankle Sprain: Getting Back to Action Faster!
Following an ankle sprain, full recovery before return to sport or full activity is important.
Risk of ACL Injury Soars Five Times Higher after an Ankle Sprain
Ankle sprains are common. Given time, most begin to feel better on their own, and people return to full activity. Unfortunately, these circumstances may be lulling people into believing they have fully recovered
Bigger Waists: Are They Unavoidable with Age?
It’s obvious that we get wider with age. What may be less obvious is why
Elbow Pain: Treat or Wait?
The common term is tennis elbow. It refers to pain on the outside of the elbow and results from all sorts of repetitive activities, not just tennis and not just sports.
Knee Osteoarthritis: What Works?
Osteoarthritis is Not Just for Seniors Arthritis is often thought of as a problem that only affects a more mature population. In fact, one form of arthritis, osteoarthritis of the knee, is a problem for younger, more active people as well.
Low Speed Crashes Pose Significant Injury Risk
An important new study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health shows that conventional thinking may be wrong
What is the Best Type of Protein Powder?
People looking to enhance the effects of their workouts often use protein powder supplements. Why? Protein consumption strategies increase muscle hypertrophy, increase fat-free mass, and decrease fatty mass
Back Pain – What Works? Results of the Largest Meta-analysis.
Worldwide, low back pain causes nearly 24 billion days lived with disability each year. From the first decade of this century to the second, that sum of disability increased 17.5%.
Whiplash Physiotherapy: How Much is Enough?
Whiplash associated disorder (WAD) encompasses a syndrome of symptoms that may result from an acceleration/deceleration injury of the neck - especially disability and neck pain.
Smart Watch Approved for Detecting Atrial Fibrillation
One out of every 50 Australians deals with atrial fibrillation (AF).1 This condition involves an irregular – often rapid – heartbeat leading to poor blood flow.
What’s the Best Timing for Protein?
We all know that we need to eat protein to maintain and build muscles. Malnutrition in this regard can make exercise counterproductive to building strength. But does it matter when the protein is consumed?
Whiplash: When to Begin Treatment
The science demonstrates unequivocally that whiplash should receive physiotherapy within 96 hours of the injury.1-
Is Straight-back Lifting Really Better than Rounded-Back Lifting?
Three out of four physiotherapists will tell you that straight-back lifting is better for your back than rounded-back lifting.1
Meniscal Tear Knee Injury in a Younger Adult? Consider Physiotherapy
It is well established that physiotherapy is a good first-line treatment for certain meniscal tears in the knee, and that physiotherapy is not inferior to a common surgery.
Post-exercise Stretching: Separating Theory from Fact
Why do we stretch at the end of a workout? Some people skip it altogether. What are they missing? If you are like many of us, you have been told that stretching will prevent sore muscles or increase range of motion
Exercise That Works for Low Back Pain
Across Australia, the cost of low back pain is on the rise, but outcomes are not improving.
Getting Thinner: Weight Training vs. Aerobics
You only have so much time in a day. We get it. Every temptation around us and every influence looks like something that will take away physical activity and add calories
Laughter is the Best Medicine
We all know that laughing makes us feel better, but do you really know why? Science is finding multiple interesting answers about the medical and psychological benefits of laughter.
COVID Recovery – The Other Part of the Story
The data regarding recovery from a severe COVID infection is still in its nascent stages. We know that exercise intolerance, even months after a case of COVID-19, is common.1
Exercising with Arthritis – Start S.M.A.R.T.
Naturally, arthritis pain can slow people down. With a normal age of onset as early as 30, it’s a common misconception that inactivity can preserve arthritic joints. It turns out that the opposite is true. Not exercising can worsen the pain and invite more problems.
Can Vegans Build Muscle and Have Endurance?
It’s a constant question and concern, especially among people who prefer high muscle mass. Can a vegan or vegetarian diet support muscle building?
