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
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
Let’s start by being fair to Pilates, because this article is going to sound critical and it isn’t meant to be. Pilates is genuinely good at several things. It restores
Of all the conditions treated in a physiotherapy clinic, this one has the most absurd effort-to-outcome ratio. A person has been dizzy for eight months. They have stopped driving. They
There is a category of headache that responds extremely well to physiotherapy and is routinely treated with medication for a decade instead. It is called cervicogenic headache — also known
Here is a statistic that ought to be better known than it is. Roughly one in four to one in three people over 65 who sustain a hip fracture are
There is a joint in your body that gets almost no attention, has no interesting surgery attached to it, does not show up in any wellness marketing, and determines whether
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
Practical, evidence-based insights on pain relief, strength, and healthy ageing from the Longevity Physio Studio team, helping you stay active on Tamborine Mountain and beyond.