OUR BLOG

Stay up to date with the latest news and posts with our regular blog from our team at Port Melbourne Physiotherapy & Pilates

Cervicogenic Headache: A pain in the neck!

What are they? A Cervico-genic headache (CGH) is a headache that literally comes from your neck! Neck joints can cause neck headache or pain if they are either too stiff or too loose. They can also cause pain if unsupported by weak muscles or are in an abnormal joint position. (eg. locked facet joint or

Continue Reading »

The MRI experience

One of our clients shares her firsthand experience of going through a MRI scan. If you’ve just been referred by your doctor or medical specialist for your first MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), what would you like to know? Of course, there’s plenty of information online about MRIs… what they’re for, what they do, how they work.

Continue Reading »

Different types of vertigo

Vertigo in a patient can present due to a number of different causes. The vestibular system includes the parts of the inner ear and brain. These areas process the sensory information involved with controlling balance and eye movements. If disease or injury damages these processing areas, vestibular disorders can result. Vestibular disorders can also result

Continue Reading »

Older person’s health

Keeping our older people safe and well: With an ageing populating, it is now more important than ever to look after the health of the older people in our community. According to Sherrington et al, At least one-third of people aged 65 years and over fall once or more annually. The flow-on effects from a

Continue Reading »

Hand Therapy at PMPP

What is Hand Therapy? Hand Therapy is the art and science of rehabilitation of the upper limb. It involves evaluation and testing to assess the injured limb, from which a specific treatment program can be designed. Hand Therapists have specialised skills in the following areas: Custom-splinting. Scar and wound management. Exercise prescription. Manual therapy. Hand Therapists are qualified Physiotherapists

Continue Reading »

Returning to Exercise Post Covid

With the new Omicron Covid-19 variant having arrived on our doorstep, many of you (and us) have now contracted the virus. Not the start to 2022 that we had been hoping for! With rising case numbers epidemiologists are predicting 60% of the population will have had Covid in the next few weeks. So we thought

Continue Reading »

Are your New Year’s resolutions achievable?

Is your diet doing what it’s supposed to? It’s easy to get swept up into the aspirational health marketing thrown at us every New Year. The advertisements telling us “to take this simple step…”, “ follow this diet…”, “do this workout regime…”, to be the best you you can be! And the resounding implication is

Continue Reading »

Does exercise reduce pain?

There are hundreds of physiological and psychological benefits to exercise but have you heard that exercise can also reduce pain? There are many proposed mechanisms for why exercise can reduce pain in healthy populations as well as those managing long standing pain and stubborn muscle tightness. In a recent study assessing the benefits of exercise in

Continue Reading »

Frozen shoulder

What is frozen shoulder? Frozen shoulder typically presents as an extremely painful and irritable shoulder. It usually arises quickly and for no apparent reason. The “causal” movement may have been minimal or nothing at all. This condition changes over time from a painful predominant stage to a stiff predominant stage. The physiological changes: In the stiff

Continue Reading »

Toileting habits

Why you shouldn’t go to the toilet “just in case” “Just in case” trips to the toilet can train the bladder to go to the toilet when it isn’t ready. By setting up these toileting habits, it can predispose you to having an overactive bladder (OAB). What is an OAB? An overactive bladder causes frequent

Continue Reading »