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The masters runner has unique needs that need to be appreciated and understood by treating practitioners and masters runners alike. Week to week a large proportion of my clinical caseload is the [...]

Low back pain is the most common presentation to medical practitioners (6). It is believed that 60-80% of adults will experience back pain at least once in their life – with 10-20% of these [...]

Radiculopathy is a set of neurological conditions that occur when there is a compression of nerve roots in the spine (5). The location of symptoms is dependent upon which nerve root is affected [...]

  Squats and deadlifts are excellent exercises that I regularly prescribe to patients with varying degrees of experience resistance training. Some of my patients have never been to the gym [...]

If you have pain referred from an area in your spine – you have probably heard of the word dermatome. In physiotherapy – we refer to two types of “tomes” – dermatomes and [...]

Up to 85% of the population can expect to experience at least some low back pain in their lifetime. Although 90% of all patients with acute LBP recover quite rapidly without any specific [...]