Tag: Physiotherapy
The forgotten muscles
Even if you are a regular Gym attendee, there is still a good-to-fair chance that while you are working some important muscles in your...
Musculoskeletal chest pain
If you are experiencing pain in your chest and any form of medical emergency can be ruled out, it might be musculoskeletal. Here are...
A pain in the backside
A pain in the buttock can be exactly that – a pain in the butt. It can interfere with exercise, sleep and hobbies, and...
Preparing for school and club sport
Now that school and club sports teams trainings and games are gearing up again, what can your young athletes do to better prepare for...
Returning to exercise post-lockdown
Alert Level 2 has meant a much bigger step back to life as we knew it before lockdown. Businesses are opening their doors again,...
How to work from home ergonomically
After four and a half weeks of lockdown, and even as we move into Alert Level Three, figuring out how to work from home...
HealthZone Physio: Telehealth services
With New Zealand and the world having more or less ground to a sudden halt, when it comes to our injuries and pain, the...
Dry Needling
Dry needling is a technique often recruited by physiotherapists in the management of myofascial trigger points – or muscle "knots” as they can more...
Game Ready: cold compression therapy
The use of ice to manage post-operative and acute injuries has been well established in healthcare for many decades. The proposed mechanism of action...
Is your neck causing headaches?
Headaches will affect up to 96% of us in our lives at one stage or another. While most require time, patience, some medications or...
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5 Reasons Why Competition is Good (and bad) for your Child
What does the word ‘competition’ bring to mind? Is all competition a good thing? How do you distinguish between helpful competition and that which...
50 Questions Every Youth Athlete Should Ask Themselves
Asking good questions is an excellent way to assess your performance and become more in tune with what to focus on to get better.
At...
Lessons from A Silver Fern
Guest Contribution: Anna Harrison - New Zealand Netballer.
Another big year of Northern Mystics and New Zealand Silver Fern Netball commitments has come to an...
The forgotten muscles
Even if you are a regular Gym attendee, there is still a good-to-fair chance that while you are working some important muscles in your...
The Menstrual Cycle and How It Affects the Female Athlete
It’s well-known that sex differences between men and woman exist. Differences that affect your physiology.
But what’s not so well known is how these differences...
