Posterior Glute Stretch Progression
Posterior Glute Stretch Progression – Progress The Posterior Glute Stretch By Adding An Opposite Leg Tuck
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Plantar Fascia Trigger Point Release
Can’t touch your toes? Do you have heel pain? A common cause to this restriction and pain is tension in the plantar flexors. The Gastrocnemius (calf muscles) as well as the Plantar Fascia can cause movement dysfunction and muscular chain tightness. A simple drill to use to release this tension and improve your pain and
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6 Simple Ways To Improve Your Brain Health
Our society is experiencing a rampant increase in chronic brain problems currently. The most recent research estimates that between 15-20% of all Australians are suffering from mild to severe problems relating to anxiety-related disorders, depression and degenerative brain conditions. The use of antidepressants doubled from 1995 to 2005 and they are now the most prescribed
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Why Does Magnesium Matter?
At the Sports and Spinal Group, we do our best to inspire our client’s to live lifelong, active lifestyles. Our practitioners are constantly being asked about the necessity of supplementing Magnesium into their daily lifestyles to offset any muscular cramping or fatigue they are suffering from during activity. Magnesium is an essential mineral that demands
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Low Back Pain and Dr Google
Low back pain is the most common presenting complaint we see in our clinics – it will affect 70-90% of Australians over their lifetime (A.B.S. 2012) and can be debilitating. A lot of our patients look up their symptoms on Google to try to determine what is going on with their lower back, what is
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Can Osteopaths Help With Your Breast Feeding?
The moments a mother shares with her child during breast feeding are unique, bonding and intimate. However, for many mothers breast feeding is a source of much stress, discomfort, worry and self-blaming. Breastfeeding is the natural feeding preference of the newborn, however there are many things that can make it difficult or impossible for a
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Sciatica in Pregnancy?
What is it? Sciatica is a term that describes leg pain due to irritation from the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. It is an extremely common presenting complaint in our practices, one that can present as mild pain, however can also be severe and debilitating, making it hard to get up or
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Sciatica
What is it? Sciatica is a term that describes leg pain due to irritation from the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. It is an extremely common presenting complaint in our practices, one that can present as mild pain, however can also be severe and debilitating, making it hard to get up or
Building An Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle: Part Two
Long-term success is achievable when you focus on small, specific and achievable goals. In order to heal your particular condition, you certainly do not have to adopt all the steps below immediately, all at once. Building momentum and consistent health deposits is the key to achieving and MAINTAINING healthy living. Remember, it us much more
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3 Reasons Why Your Knee Hurts
“My knee hurts” – at the Sports & Spinal Group, we hear this everyday! Whether it is a little child, their parent or grandparent, knee pain is prevalent in all age groups and at all stages of life. There are so many structures that make up the knee that it can be hard to accurately
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Building An Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle
The Sports And Spinal Group believes in empowering our clients to take control of their health in a holistic manner. This includes movement, sleep, nutrition and stress management. Controlling inflammation is the key to managing and improving our overall well being in both the short and long term. What Is Inflammation? Inflammation is the immune
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Banded Hip Thrust
Progress The Bodyweight Hip Thrust to include banded tension, which increases strength and power demands to the Glute complex
Banded Clamshell
Progress the Bodyweight Clamshell by adding banded tension. This increases the power and strength demands on the Glute complex
Bodyweight Clamshell
A low weight bearing exercise to begin activating and waking up your Glute complex
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Banded Supine Glute Bridge
Progress the Bodyweight Glute Bridge by adding banded tension. This increases the strength and stability demands of the Glute complex
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Bodyweight Hip Thrust
Increase your glute strength and endurance by adding a Bodyweight Hip Thrust to your exercise routine.
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Supine Glute Bridge
Use this drill as a beginning point to wake up your Glute complex and build foundational strength and endurance through the Hip Musculature
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Low back pain – Where you think it is – it ain’t!
Some information on Low Back Pain 70 -90% of all Australian’s will suffer with LBP in their lifetime (A.B.S. 2012) The biggest predicator of LBP is previous LBP Pain can come from the discs, joints, muscles, ligaments, nerves and brain. But why does low back pain occur? There are many reasons why low back pain
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