Aquatic Hydrotherapy / Physiotherapy: Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries
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Aquatic Hydrotherapy / Physiotherapy: Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries

Rehabilitation for sports and traumatic injuries may often require patients to stop training and literally rest. And knowing athletes and sporty individuals, this will frustrate them. A lot. Let me give you an example, say ankle injuries, which are the most common musculoskeletal injury that happen in both recreational and competitive athletes. Unfortunately, ankle sprains…

Back Pain Strain Physiotherapy Back Pain and Strain, and How Proper Physiotherapy Management Can Help
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Back Pain Strain Physiotherapy Back Pain and Strain, and How Proper Physiotherapy Management Can Help

Back pain is not only painful, but also very disruptive to daily routines and lifestyle. Most of our patients will skip work for days, and sometimes they’re even confined to their beds or chairs for most of the day. Unfortunately, around 60-70% of adults suffer from back pain. That’s a minimum of 6 adults out…

Chronic Low Back Pain Physiotherapy
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Chronic Low Back Pain Physiotherapy

Chronic low back pain is defined as low back pain that continues for 12 weeks or longer…even after the original injury has been treated. About 5-10% of people who has back pain develops chronic back pain which lasts at least one year. To make things worse, 20% of doctor visits are related to back pain!…

Spondylosis Physiotherapy
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Spondylosis Physiotherapy

Spondylosis is a very specific type of osteoarthritis in the joints of your spine bone (neck, back or sacrum), and it affects the center of the spinal verebrae and/or neural foramina. Note: It can be easily misdiagnosed, so the doctor and physiotherapist needs to do differential diagnosis: if the same condition affects the zygapophysial joint…

Can Epidural Injection Cause Chronic Back Pain?
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Can Epidural Injection Cause Chronic Back Pain?

After becoming a dad for the third time, it’s still an amazing experience for myself; and my wife also feels the same: that pregnancy and motherhood can be a wonderful experience, though it sometimes may come with some discomforts, inconveniences and pains. Sometimes some patients experience soreness and pain where the epidural injection was done,…

3 mistakes that will make your back pain WORSE
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3 mistakes that will make your back pain WORSE

7 out of 10 people gets back pain at some point in their lives…but the worse thing is, half of these 7 people will go on to have long term back pain (ouch!). For some, their back pains are “just” some ache in their back, and to some, it’s so pain that they can’t even…

The Alexander Technique for Back Pain
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The Alexander Technique for Back Pain

The Alexander technique refers to a self-improvement process that takes place over the course of lessons and practice with the goal being to teach you how to become increasingly aware and make gradual changes to the movement and postural habits of your body. The core focus is on developing and learning awareness of your mind…

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Spinal physio care of the painful upper back

Our upper back has a lot of joints and muscles that makes it, and that makes it much higher risk of having injuries, pains and conditions. Even if just one muscle or joint injury from accident or working out can cause pain and discomfort with simple movements. What spinal physios will do is to assess…

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Manual Physical Therapy for Pain Relief

Physiotherapists and hand therapists have a number of treatment approaches and techniques to help our patients. We’ll decide after assessments, because any treatments need to be appropriate and not contra-indicated. An example is say heat therapy treatment or ultrasound therapy, they’re great with specific conditions and situations but in all. In fact, many physiotherapists may…