The Crucial Role of Glute and Core Strength in Alleviating Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain is a widespread issue affecting countless individuals, leading to discomfort and limitations in daily life. However, relief may be closer than you ...
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How your midback posture is impacting your ribs and breathing!
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, ...
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Sitting and your rounded back – what does this mean to your health?
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 ...
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How Lower Back Pain impacts your breathing and how to fix it!
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 ...
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Gratitude and pain – are you counting your blessings?
Count your blessings. Be thankful. The message about gratitude can be heard these days, loud and clear. Being thankful is such an important practice to ...
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Core Stability & Back Pain
The muscles that surround our spine are considered the “core” of our body. It is composed of the abdominal muscles on your front and sides, ...
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3 Things You Can Do Right Now For Your Low Back Pain
Low back pain – most likely you will get some pain in your low back in your lifetime – in fact 70-90% is the stat ...
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Stiff And Sore Mid Back? Try This!
A stiff and sore mid back (or thoracic spine) is one of the most common presenting complaints we get at the Sports & Spinal Group. ...
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Should You Stretch Your Hamstrings?………Maybe!
Every summer, I see sporting teams everywhere running around ovals or in the gym – preparing for the season ahead. Without fail, I see the ...
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3 Reasons Why Your Low Back Continues To Hurt
3 reasons why your low back continues to hurt Your low back (or Lumbar spine), is a stable area of the the spine in contrast ...
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Crunches For A Stronger Back And Core? Ummmmm….. Maybe Not!
The traditional abdominal crunch – a staple exercise that is being undertaken in most gyms around the world for the last 100 years – mainly ...
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Low back pain? My back is out! Wait….what?
Many people with low back pain – either acute on chronic – have been told by a practitioner that their back is “out” – whether ...
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Foam Rolling – What Does It Actually Do?
In the fitness and health industry, foam rolling has become as popular as yoga pants, kale smoothies and motivational quotes on Instagram. But what does ...
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3 Warning Signs Your Glutes Are Not Working
Our Glutes are a super important area of the body. Not only do they look good in jeans, but they actually have many roles: Outwardly ...
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3 Myths Regarding Low Back Pain
Over the years I have heard hundreds of different reasons and explanations as to why my patients have, and continue to have low back pain. ...
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Why Upper Body Strength Is Important In Cycling And Triathlon
When we think about muscles we need to work on for riding a bike, the last thing we tend to consider are those through our ...
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Slipped Disc….I Think Not!
It is something we hear in the our clinics a lot – a patient coming in and describing their back pain by saying something to ...
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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. ...
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