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Physical Milestones During a baby’s first year of life there is a lot of change as they progress from being a small, fairly immobile, bundle through to an independent, moving, little person. Milestones are the times where a major change in their movement patterns occurs and they end up learning & mastering some cool new […]
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How does your neck feel today? Is it a bit stiff? Traditionally with neck pain, a lot of individuals tend to look at the surface level muscles and relate it to a persons headache or neck pain. Another key factor in this can be what is occurring below these muscles, in particular at the deep
You will have heard the term “bad posture”…or you might have had someone say to you (or you’ve even said it yourself) “put your shoulders back” or “stand tall”. Posture denotes many things – health, confidence, attitude, success. Much of which has nothing to do with posture at all. What is bad posture really? Truth
Bad Posture? We can help! Read More »
Whether it is driving, cooking or hanging out the washing – almost anything we do with our hands and arms requires movement from our shoulder. For that reason the shoulder needs to be highly mobile in multiple planes of movement, which inherently means that is it less stable when compared with other joints. This is
Your rotator cuff strength – why is it important and how do I improve it? Read More »
Hip extension is one of the most important and overlooked human movements. Why? Because it plays a multitude of important roles in both functional performance and injury prevention. These range from power and speed production in sports to simply walking and standing. This article discusses the mechanics of hip extension, why we need it and
Why is it important to improve Hip extension strength and how do I do it? Read More »
When we think of injuries an ankle sprain is often referred to as ‘’just an ankle sprain’’ and is not given the same attention to an injury such as lower back pain however if ankle pain is not diagnosed and treated early long term stiffness and pain can develop. When you come to see an
Rolled your ankle? Tired of the same issue? Start building strength and stability! Read More »
You may be a runner, a golfer, a pilates enthusiast or a gym rat but if knee pain is stopping you doing what you love it can reduce your ability to keep fit, look after your mental health and have good self care practices. Knee pain can come in many forms such as tendon pain,
Is knee pain stopping you doing what you love? Read More »
All of our brain and body parts that make up mental health are largely built in infancy. These include the various parts of the nervous system and the related neurotransmitters such as serotonin, norepinephrine, GABA, glutamate, dopamine and the microbiome of the gut. When infant relationships and experiences are nurtured in infancy the brain and
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“Young children feel emotions in their bodies and don’t have the adequate language to share how they feel” Young children are not able to self-regulate because their nervous system has not developed yet to allow them to be able to do so. The part of the brain responsible for self control, the pre frontal cortex
The Emotional child – How we can help you Read More »
Our entry into life and what happens in the birth process and the early days of life has the potential to shape our nervous system and our emotional patterns, as our birth is the lens that we see and experience the world through…even as adults. When we are in utero, and up to the age
Can our birth patterns and strains shape us? Read More »
Face pulls are an exercise that should be added to your upper body lifting routine in order to improve poor shoulder and thoracic positioning. Both play a large role in posture, making the face pull a beneficial exercise in that it directly contrasts the slumped shoulder position we tend to live in everyday when sitting
The Face Pull: A key to improving posture and shoulder strength and stability! Read More »
Whole Person recovery – what we do at SSG! The many facets on recovery In one day we can train, work and invest time and love into our family and friends then we do it all again the next day. Sometimes it feels like we are being pulled in all different directions. To be there
SSG’s approach to recovery – The whole person approach! Read More »
Neck pain is an extremely common and restricting condition that can affect the large majority of Australians. In combination with this, headaches can be a major factor for increasing neck pain or causing the pain in the first place. Headaches themselves can be categorized into primary and secondary. Put simply, primary headaches are conditions that
Having neck pain and headaches? Here’s how we can help! Read More »
With the constant tasks of work, activities of daily living, exercise and other things we do throughout our days, the muscles around our neck and shoulders can feel and become quite tight and sore. The everyday stress of life, work, activities and exercise can all have a negative effect on how we feel through our
Those shoulder muscles feeling tight and sore? Here is how to fix it! Read More »
A poor midback posture is very closely linked with several other postural imbalances that coexist and feed off each other. These include forward head posture, neck flexion, rounded shoulders and depressed ribs. All of these combine to influence the mechanics of the body in a many ways, including the way that we breathe. The lungs
How your midback posture is impacting your ribs and breathing! Read More »
Sitting with a rounded back is a reality for so many of us. Worryingly, it is also this bad posture that negatively affects the health of millions of people each year. Let’s explore what causes us to sit with a rounded back, how it affects our health and how we can fix it with a
Sitting and your rounded back – what does this mean to your health? Read More »
Breathing is something we take for granted every day. In our lifetime we take 672,738,000 breaths and every one of those breaths requires muscles that attach onto the rib cage to contract and relax. These muscles fall into primary and accessory muscles of breathing. One muscle that is key to this process is the quadratus
How Lower Back Pain impacts your breathing and how to fix it! Read More »
Are you having prolonged symptoms following concussion? Our CCMI accredited Osteopaths can help! Without appropriate management, over 30% of concussed people can go onto experience persistent symptoms that last beyond 4 weeks. This is called Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS). There is a range of reasons why this may occur. Outlined below are some of the most likely theories, and
Are you having prolonged symptoms following concussion? Read More »
