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Bursitis Shoulder

Your bursa is a fluid filled sac that helps to reduce friction in your shoulder spaces. Bursitis shoulder is a common cause of shoulder pain that is usually caused from impingement of your bursa between your rotator cuff tendons and bone.

Overtraining. How Much Training is Too Much?

How Much Training is Too Much? We all know exercise is good for us, but how much should we do?  According to Australia’s Physical Activity Guidelines, we should be active most (preferably all) days of the week.  In total it is recommended that we accumulate 2.5-5 hours of moderate intensity physical exercise each week.  Furthermore […]

Core strength for low back pain – Inner West Physiotherapist Suzie Williams discusses

What is core stability or core strength? The “core” as it is commonly referred to is a group of muscles that provide support, stability and control movement of your spine and pelvis.  A common misconception is that your core is simply strong abdominal muscles, but there are many more muscles that are important in giving […]

Achilles pain

Treatments for Achilles pain and injury can be challenging. Achilles pain can affect all levels of physical activity, from people that enjoy going for a walk to people that enjoy running long distance and playing all manner of sports…..or not! Determining the diagnosis is very simple, the challenge is how to treat it.

Fungal Nail – Why Laser is safest and most effective

Fungal nail infection of the toenail (onychomycosis) is a difficult to treat condition. The infection causes discolored, ugly toe nails that can be very unsightly. The treatment is challenging because the beasties live in the nail bed (the part that we can’t see, beneath the skin). Topical therapies are largely ineffective because they don’t penetrate […]

Anterolateral ligament found

Scientists have described a new ligament in the human knee. The ligament has been named “anterolateral ligament” (ALL).  A French surgeon first noticed a structure that he described as “pearly resistant, fibrous band” in 1879.  Recently, a group of Belgium surgeons have finished a study where they describe in detail the anatomy of this now […]