Structural Imbalance Physiotherapy
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Structural Imbalance Physiotherapy

You may have chanced upon this word “structural imbalance” before, online or speaking to your friends, or even seeing a physio for your body pains and aches. To understand imbalanced structures, it’s good to understand first, what is “balanced structures”. Structural Balance It simply means the optimal posture and position for our body, be it…

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…

Chronic Pain Syndromes Physiotherapy
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Chronic Pain Syndromes Physiotherapy

There’s an estimated 116,000,000 Americans who have chronic pain every year, and it costs an averae of $600,000,000,000 for medical treatment, lost work time and lost income. Chronic pain is ongoing pain in one or more parts in the body…with or without any real body tissue damage due to injury or illness, beyond normal tissue…

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!…

Sprained Your Ankle Again?
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Sprained Your Ankle Again?

90% cases of untreated ankle sprains can become recurring (as in the ankle keeps getting sprained again and again), but there’s good news: with skilled ankle sprain physiotherapy we can decrease the recurrence to below 40%. What’s an ankle sprain? An ankle sprain happens when the ankle either bends IN or OUT too much, stretching…

Foot Strike During Running
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Foot Strike During Running

As physios, we get a lot of patients who loves jogging and running (as well as marathoning) and many of them get runners injuries and pains. One of the best things about running and jogging is that it doesnt need much gear and costs: just running gears such as shoes and light clothings roads, treadmills…

Bankart Lesion Physiotherapy
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Bankart Lesion Physiotherapy

A bankart injury refers to the tear of the glenoid labrum in the shoulder, and it’s a pretty common shoulder injury. What happens is that the shoulder dislocates forward (medically termed as “anteriorly”) and this specificly damages the lower portion of the cartilage in the shoulder socket. Usually happens to younger and active individuals such…

Biceps Tendon Rupture Physiotherapy
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Biceps Tendon Rupture Physiotherapy

Everyone knows the biceps – it’s usually called “the guns” of the body…but sometimes the tendons of the biceps muscle can tear at the insertion site because of falls, sports injuries, car accidents etc. Most of the time, bicep tendon tears happen at the bicep tendon that’s near the shoulder; and moreso in men than…

Biceps Tendinitis Physiotherapy
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Biceps Tendinitis Physiotherapy

Biceps tendinitis is actually a quite common cause of shoulder pain and shoulder impingement (compression of tissue with movement). Biceps tendon inflammation (tendinitis) tends to happen to individuals who do lots of repetitive, over-the-head movements. It also tends to be a wear-and-tear (ie happens over a period of time), typically with aches and pains just…

Thinking of picking up running? Read this first.
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Thinking of picking up running? Read this first.

Running is one of the easiest and most accessible sports people can do around the world – you dont need much gear, just basic running gears and off you go. Singapore’s weather is pretty good for jogging and running too, being very predictable most of the time being hot. Running has good health benefits such…