Cyclists on the road can be the bane of a car driver’s life! And if we ask the cyclists, aggressive car drivers are equally troublesome! One thing is certain: cycling is here to stay. It is an activity with a multitude of health benefits, and is being suggested as the perfect sport for older adults.
Read MoreA knee replacement is a significant and potentially painful surgery with a lengthy rehabilitation process. This surgery should be considered as a last resort and performed only after all other management options have been exhausted. Find out what you can do to avoid or postpone surgery.
Read MoreWe all know how difficult it can be to make the changes to our lifestyle we know we ought to make. We are inspired for a while, but we back-slide. We have a go, but then we get discouraged. This website has some great suggestions of lifestyle changes that could really make a difference to our lives – managing our pain better, eating a healthier diet, looking after our joints and our tendons better, improving our sleep hygiene, quitting smoking, caring for our mental health ... but how can we make changes that actually stick? This exact question has been the subject of plenty of research, which we have read through and summarised here.
Read MoreA summary from the book Explain Pain Supercharged by Lorimer Mosely and David Butler.
With age comes wisdom. But age may bring a lot of other baggage as well! Our society holds many beliefs and perceptions about getting older, and some of these are myths which need to be challenged. Lorimer Mosely and David Butler, in their excellent book Explain Pain Supercharged, tackle some of the most common myths about ageing and pain that persist in our culture and may make us unintentionally ageist.
Read MoreA Narrative of the Musculoskeletal Implications of Late Parenthood
The average age women become mothers in Australia (and around the western world) is increasing, and currently stands at 30.3 years old 1. Forty years ago, the average age of new mothers was 25 years old 1. What has driven this change and what does it mean for our physical health?
Read MoreThe dream of a ‘cure’ for ageing has persisted throughout human history, and we may be on the verge of scientific breakthroughs that can make it a reality. The Winter 2017 edition of Cosmos magazine included a feature article by Elizabeth Finkel on the current state of anti-ageing research. You can read the fascinating full article here, or read on for our summary:
Read MoreTendinopathy or tendinitis is an extremely common condition often caused by unaccustomed overuse and the resulting breakdown of tendon fibres. It has been termed the “mid-life crisis of a tendon” by researches Luk, Tsang and Leung in 2014, and is most commonly seen in the aging population. Here we will review the current research to find out what treatments help, and which treatments might be potentially harmful.
Read MoreThe increased availability and quality of medical scans is an important and potentially lifesaving advancement in modern medicine, but do we know too much? We have started to discover that many bone, joint, tendon and other soft tissue conditions that are seen on scans, are pain free and appear to be a common part of the aging process. The phrase ignorance is bliss, comes to mind here.
Read MoreTendinopathy (formerly called tendinitis) is a condition that is commonly linked to age-related changes in tendon health and function. It is a prevalent, debilitating and often slow healing condition and so the widespread hunt to find a supplement that improves tendon health seems justified. Most research into tendon health focuses on treatments for tendinopathy rather than prevention of tendon degeneration.
Read More“This year I am going to lose weight and get into shape!”
Sound familiar? This phrase will carry a strong sense of déjà vu for many of us, especially soon after the start of a New Year. We are all aware of the numerous health benefits of maintaining a healthy weight, but the task itself can be daunting. We are inundated with advertisements, Facebook posts, or magazines suggesting new diets or exercise programs, which they claim will help you lose weight.
Read MoreFor all its hurry-ups and slow-downs, for all of the perceived variability, time marches on for each of us.
Read MoreOsteoarthritis is a prevalent disease, so correspondingly the desire for a pharmaceutical cure to joint aging is equally strong. Family members, friends, colleagues, doctors, websites, pharmacist will all swear by a product, telling you that this pill or that injection changed their lives and “Really Work!”. But through this cacophony of advice, do any of these products truly work or is it purely a placebo response to a well-crafted sales pitch?
Read MoreSurgical techniques have become more refined and sometimes more experimental, with the number of elective surgeries performed continuing to increase exponentially over the past decades. But is surgery always the answer? Perhaps we have become so caught up in the idea of “progress” that we do not stop to ask whether these procedures actually work any better than non-surgical treatment. Some researchers are now attempting to answer these questions.
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