The GLP-1 receptor agonist medications have changed obesity treatment. The weight loss they produce is substantial, sustained while treatment continues, and comes with genuine cardiovascular and metabolic benefits demonstrated in
Someone with a stubborn tendon problem eventually arrives at a decision point. They have tried rest, they have tried anti-inflammatories, and they are now being offered something that costs several
Dry needling is one of the few treatments in physiotherapy where the patient can feel something specific happen. The muscle twitches — an involuntary, unmistakable contraction — and then it
“Sciatica” is not a diagnosis. It is a description of a location. It means pain travelling down the back or side of the leg along the distribution of the sciatic
A patient describes low back pain. Deep, one-sided, worse after standing, sometimes spreading into the buttock and down the outside of the thigh. They have had imaging. The report mentions
The upper trapezius is the most frequently treated and least frequently understood muscle in the human body. People arrive with tight traps, trap knots, neck and shoulder tension, “carrying stress
You get a massage. It feels excellent. For about four days, the tightness is gone. Then it comes back, in exactly the same place, and you book again. If you
Ask a physiologist what happens to muscle as we age and they will tell you about sarcopenia — the progressive loss of muscle mass and strength. Fair enough. But there
Plantar heel pain is the injury people put up with the longest. It is not dramatic. It does not stop you working. It just makes the first twenty steps of
The standard exercise advice given to Australians with osteoporosis is: walk more, do some light weights, avoid anything jarring, be careful. In 2017, a research group at Griffith University on
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