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  • March 25, 2018

    GLA:D™ Australia

    GLA:D stands for Good Living with Arthritis: Denmark. It is a good-living and exercise program for people with osteoarthritis of the knee and hip, developed in Denmark. It is suitable if you have mild, moderate or severe osteoarthritis of the hip or knee

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  • March 25, 2018

    What is osteoarthritis?

    Osteoarthritis (or OA) is a lifelong joint disease that can start without any obvious reason. OA is a disease that affects the whole joint, and is the leading cause of inactivity in people over 65 years of age.

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  • March 7, 2018

    Keeping your balance

    Balance is an integral part of how we live our lives. A reduction in balance can impact your ability to stay fit and active, play sports or keep up with the grandkids. One in four Australians over the age of 65 will experience a fall that can result in significant injury, often due to poor balance reactions.

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  • January 21, 2018

    How Does Yoga Help Physiotherapy

    Are you interested in yoga but not sure where to start? If you're looking for a way to improve your flexibility, gain more strength and bring balance into your life, then Physiyoga is for you! Suitable for beginners to intermediate yogis, see why everyone is loving our hands-on classes.

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  • November 7, 2017

    How to make your daily walk an effective exercise

    Our bodies have been engineered over thousands of years to be very effective at walking. What that means is that your daily saunter around the block may not be challenging your muscles or your heart and lungs, and you are therefore missing out on the multitude of benefits of cardiovascular exercise.

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  • November 7, 2017

    Breathing

    Breathing is something we do everyday and although it is an automatic process for most, being mindful of how to change your breath can improve your mood and have other physiological benefits.

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  • November 7, 2017

    Managing your back pain

    Spinal pain may occur for no specific reason. This may be as a result of accumulated load (repeated heavy work or exercise), prolonged poor posture, skeletal irregularities (scoliosis or osteoporosis) or arthritis.

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  • November 7, 2017

    Hamstring stretching

    The hamstring muscle group attaches from the buttock region to behind the knee. If the hamstrings are tight this can increase the load on the hips, knees, calf and lower back.

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  • November 7, 2017

    Whiplash

    Whiplash is a common term for the acceleration-deceleration forces on the neck that may occur in a car accident or other form of accident. It may result in an injury to the muscles, joints or ligaments, nerves and fascia in the neck or spinal areas.

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  • November 6, 2017

    Hip soreness

    For many women, hip pain can be extremely troublesome. Pain on direct pressure on the outside of the hip or with activity may indicate underlying hip bursitis or gluteal tendonopathy, often resulting in lateral hip pain.

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