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Physio Tips for Home Desk Set Up
Desk Set Up If you’re working from home, it is important that you optimise your desk set up. Prolonged posture with a poor desk workspace can cause...

Exercises for Working at Home
https://youtu.be/sGa86tq8Xvo As many of you will be setting up your desk at home for the next few weeks, we have put together a short video that...

Sitting Posture
Slumping is wrong, so I should sit up straight, right? Well – no… At Bodyfit Physio we believe ‘good posture’ is an efficient posture. An efficient...

Osgood Schlatter disease
Why do active kids develop knee pain? Children who are active during their growth spurt may develop sites of pain particularly in the knees and...

Severs Disease
A common reason for growing children and adolescents to experience pain in the back of their heel during or after sport is due to Sever’s Disease....
Kids just want to have fun! What to do when running around and having fun isn’t easy?
Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) occurs in approximately 1 in 10 Australian children. That’s at least 1 in every school class. Children can...
Arthritis
What is arthritis? Arthritis is an umbrella term used to group over 100 conditions. “Arthritis” means inflammation of the joint. It can...

Is our world too flat?
There is a lot of talk about why we have so many more issues with back and neck pain in the developed world compared to the developing world. Is it...

Pelvic Floor Screening Tool
Did you know that bladder and bowel control problems are a common issue, affecting over 4 million Australians? Did you know that women are at higher...

Physiotherapy making waves in treating mastitis
Physiotherapists are increasingly using therapeutic ultrasound to treat mastitis in breastfeeding women, writes Karen Keast. In her early...

Running the right shoes
2016 is well under way, along with the resolutions we make at this time of year and a calendar littered with of fun-runs and half-marathons, and it...

Back to School – start the new year active and healthy
Almost all young Australians - aged between 13 and 17 - are not as physically active as they should be with nine out of ten young Australians...