Personalised physiotherapy services in Lismore
The word “physio” is Greek and means natural. Physiotherapists use natural resources, such as hands, ice, heat, electrotherapy modalities, self-help advice and exercises to treat musculoskeletal disorders.
Treating Australian baseball players. Courtesy: The Northern Star
About musculoskeletal disorders
These disorders include muscles, joints, bones and neurological (nerve) conditions that affect movement. They can include low back (lumbar), thoracic and neck (cervical) pain or pain in other joints such as the knee or the shoulder.
What to expect
A physiotherapist will establish a treatment regime and management program for you to ensure that your injury is healing as quickly as possible. Later in the healing process, the physiotherapist's tasks also include avoiding secondary complications, such as, unecessary stiffness or weakness and whenever possible, ensuring that the problem doesn't recur.
General advice & recommendations
This section is intended for general advice and recommendations for the variety of conditions listed. This advice is not personalised for you.
List Of Conditions
- Osteoarthritis OA: Knee & Hip. Consumer Fact sheet: https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Osteoarthritis-of-the-Knee-Clinical-Care-Standard-Consumer-Fact-Sheet.pdf
- For more details about knee OA, if desired, please navigate the FB page.
- Osteoporosis, exercises. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26243363 (Contact us for details)
- Chronic Pain (management & education)
- Ankle Injuries (also strapping & taping an ankle https://youtu.be/676aln-8x9s)
- Patellofemoral (Knee Cap) Pain
- Neck (cervical) Pain
- Whiplash
- Excercise Benefits Osteoarthritis
- Low Back (Lumbar) Pain
- Exercise Prescription
Chronic Pain Understanding
In recommended order:
1. paintrainer.org/login-to-paintrainer/ Free. University of Melbourne. You need to register, however, they do not send spam or divulge your contacts to third parties. Hint: don't hurry keying and tabbing the short registration process as the registration process can become erroneous, if you've tabbed before it has accepted your previous page's information. Helping patients understand, manage and disengage their chronic pain circuit.
2. Agency for Clinical Innovation:
ACI Pain Management Network. ... The site contains free information to enable you to develop skills and knowledge in the self management of your pain in partnership with your healthcare providers. You will hear from other people, just like you and learn how they too have lived with chronic pain.
3. Getting a grip on pain and the brain, Professor Lorimer Moseley,
Successful Ageing Seminar 2013 (Youtube video, 40:39)
Why Things Hurt (14.32) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs
Recommended books: (in suggested order of importance)
a. Explain Pain - Butler & Moseley
b. Explain Pain Handbook (The Protectormeter) - Moseley
c. Painfull Yarns - Moseley
Other videos of interest (in suggested order of importance)
4. Understanding Pain: Brainman chooses (2:39) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwn9rC3rOI
5. Understanding Pain
What to do about it in less than five minutes (5:0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWMKucuejIs&list=PLwQZCGpRbfnuh0lX5tRHM79z0SVXyfaeb
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