Living in Sydney is stressful, many people are juggling jobs and caring responsibilities, whether its for children or elderly parents. Over time these responsibilities can become overwhelming and one in five people will suffer from mental health problems at some time. This often manifests as either anxiety or depression. There are a number of…
Pelvic Pain and Dysfunction
There’s no Need to Suffer in Silence Part 1 Do you suffer from: incontinence (urinary or bowel) urinary frequency; urgency bowel or bladder irritation (with or without pain; can feel like a full sensation) pain (electric shock like, shooting, aching, itching or a raw feeling) of your clitoris, vagina, labia (or penis, scrotum), urethra or…
What is Chronic Pain?
The definition of chronic pain is any pain that extends beyond the expected healing time for an injury. Generally, it’s accepted that most tissues have healed by 12 weeks. So, any pain that has continued for longer than 3 months is chronic pain. Conversely, acute pain is any pain condition that has resulted from a…
Is sitting giving you pain?
As an Osteopath, I am regularly asked “What causes my problem? “,“Why does it keep recurring?”, “I don’t do anything to trigger it” One reason is related to the repeated exposure to habitual poor postures and ergonomics, that many people are unaware of. We can be regularly spending 6 hours or more sitting at a…
Ski fit
Every year the team at Elemental health deals with injuries resulting from skiing and snowboarding accidents. This year we would recommend you ensure that you are well-prepared and minimise the risk. In terms of preparation just about all movements in daily life and any given sport can be broken down into basic movement patterns called…
Ergonomics in the home for our kids
Does this look familiar? I can’t tell you how many children I treat that tell me they do their homework lying on their bed!!We want to give our children a good education and we also need to look after their growing musculo – skeletal systems. It terrifies me what the long term effect will be…
The latest information on falls prevention
Exercise is really important at all ages but it is even more important as we age. Did you know that falls are the single biggest reason for injury-related admission to hospital and presentations to the emergency department in people over 65 years? This is about double the rate of admissions from Motor Vehicle Accidents!!! Did…
Feeding your gut bacteria right!
Research shows that on average probiotics last 13 to 17 days in the gastrointestinal tract which means that , whilst its a good strategy in the short term to crowd out problematic bacteria, the reality is that diet is the best way to improve your gut flora. So what do you need to do to…
5 Tips for good gluten free menu’s
Breakfast at The Conservation Hut Australia Day we added a couple of days leave creating a long weekend and headed up to the Blue Mountains. Being strictly gluten free I did some research before I left and came up with an impressive list of options. Unfortunately the definition of gluten free varied widely. So here…
Weight Loss that Lasts
Ditch the word diet and follow these tips for successful and sustainable weight loss. Cartoon cat Garfield once declared that “diet” is “die” with “t” in it. And that’s how we tend to view dieting – if not death, then certainly serious deprivation. Switch it around to something more positive – and these days it’s…