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As we emerge from the indulgence of Christmas and enter the new year, many of you will be taking up new exercise regimes to improve your health and fitness. The extra motivation that comes with new year’s resolutions is terribly exciting but that enthusiasm and inexperience makes everyone a little prone to injuries. Here are

Gout is an extremely painful condition that can affect joints throughout the body but it is not even caused by musculoskeletal injury. So what is gout? And why is it called The Disease of Kings? Gout begins in bodily systems entirely separate from the musculoskeletal system. The excruciating joint pain that gout generates occurs when

Everyone knows we have to get eight hours of sleep a night but very few of us do. What’s driving this behaviour is that we think we can get away with it. We’ve allowed ourselves to believe it’s something we should do rather than something we need to do. This is wrong, allow me to prove it.   Sleep

That’s a photo of me freezing in Iceland. This last week in Sydney hasn’t been too much better.  We often hear people tell us their arthritis pain worsens with the cold. Others say their pain is worse with the rain. But is this merely an old wives tale or is there something to it?  

No gain, no pain.  Yes, you read it right. Weight gain causes all sorts of pain. This doesn’t happen sometime down the road, the pains that come with weight gain can hit you nice and early in life, it could be affecting you now. Weight management is always spoken about as something to do for

Shoulder impingement is a very common phenomenon in the athletic population. It is often wrongly spoken of as a diagnosis but it is really a clinical sign (like jaundice is a clinical sign not a diagnosis). There are two types of shoulder impingement and the focus of this article is the most common type: Subacromial

Sudden and acute lower back pain can occur without prior symptoms and is usually triggered by bending, twisting or lifting. Pain often improves slowly over time but can be severe and debilitating until you recover. Here are the best ways to manage your lower back pain and prevent it happening again.   #1 – Put