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Non-Surgical ACL Treatment and Rehabilitation
Traditionally, the diagnosis of an ACL rupture has almost certainly meant surgery. The thoughts on this are slowly changing. There are multiple studies being conducted on the healing potential of an injured ACL. There are also almost no good studies that prove that...
What Does a Physiotherapist Do, and Why Should I See One?
May is Physiotherapy Month. It’s a great time to explain how Physiotherapy can help keep you moving, and what to expect when you see a physiotherapist for treatment. Injury When we are injured, our bodies often compensate in less than ideal ways. This compensation...
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport that requires strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and endurance. While its aerial and acrobatic movements can shock and awe, these movements can increase an athlete’s risk for injury. What are the common injuries in gymnastics? For...
What is Kinesiology?
Kinesiology is the science of human movement, performance and function. Kinesiologists are university educated healthcare professionals who have studied body mechanics and the role human movement plays in preventing and managing injury, chronic disease, disability,...
Treatment of Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Pain in Women and Men
Specialized physiotherapy for the assessment and treatment of bladder and bowel incontinence, and pelvic pain are becoming more recognized as a first line of defence. If you think you may be affected, ask yourself the following questions: Have you experienced...
Achilles Tendonitis
What is Achilles Tendonitis? Achilles tendonitis is a painful condition that results from an imbalance between tissue wear and repair in the Achilles tendon - at the back of the ankle. It usually develops slowly over time, although symptoms can come on quite suddenly....
Nutrition for Menopause
For most women, menopause begins between the ages of 45 and 55, and it is defined by the lack of a menstrual cycle for 12 months. This is a time to take care of yourself by making healthy lifestyle choices. Food and nutrition play significant roles in the health and...
What Is Scoliosis?
What is scoliosis? Scoliosis is a deformity of the spine, usually diagnosed in adolescents; often without a known cause. What is Scheuermann’s Kyphosis? It is a (hyper)kyphosis; a spinal deformity that leads to a more rounded appearance of one’s upper back (sometimes...
Complete Concussion Management
What is a Concussion? A concussion is a mild form of brain injury that results from acceleration or deceleration of the brain within the skull following a significant impact to the head or body. Concussions can be the result of a direct blow to the head, or of...
Making Sense of ‘Persistent’ Pain
It seems self evident that pain is caused by tissue damage and istherefore resolved by tissue healing. But what about when the initialinjury should have resolved long ago and yet our pain continues intomany months and possibly even years? This is known as ‘persistent’...
To Kegel or not to Kegel?
You may have read on social media that you should be doing kegel exercises to help strengthen your pelvic floor. BUT, what is the pelvic floor? And more importantly, what are kegel exercises and should you be doing them? The answer is...it depends. The pelvic floor is...
Shaking Sugar Cravings
5 Tips for shaking those lingering holiday sugar cravings: Holidays…we love them…and we tend to overdo the treats a bit during them. That’s okay, but battling those sugar cravings while adjusting back to reality and fighting off the post holiday illness, often makes...
What is a TMD and what are the symptoms?
What is a TMD? The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is the name of the joint located on either side of your head, just in front of your ears. These joints connect your mandible (jawbone) to your temporal bone (skull). The TMJ, which can rotate and move forward, backward...
Acupuncture, IMS & You
We all get aches and pains. Many of us have tight muscles. So what’s an effective treatment your physiotherapist can provide? Acupuncture and Intra-Muscular Stimulation (IMS) are two effective treatment options. They are used to treat a variety of conditions such as...
Running Injuries
With the fall clock running down, many of us weekend warriors are being chased down by the injury bugs. Following a long, hot season of pounding the trails, it’s not uncommon for some aches to show to up. For both the avid year-round runners and the warm-weather...
Cervicogenic Dizziness
Dizziness is not necessarily vertigo! Have you ever experienced dizziness and the Doctor tells you it is vertigo? Yet you are not responding to the vertigo treatment? There is a chance that the symptoms are not from a classic BPPV (benign positional paroxysmal...
Injury Magnet
Have you ever noticed how, once you hurt yourself, that area seems to get re-injured? For example, you stub your toe on something, and then proceed to stub the same toe twice more in the same evening? One of the explanations behind this frustrating phenomenon has to...
Headache & Migraine: Physiotherapy Management
Is that pain in your head really a pain in the neck? Do you suffer from persistent headaches when sitting at your desk at work? Or does your headache come on when there is added stress in your life? Maybe when you get a migraine you’re in bed for the next 2 days?...
Sun City Physiotherapy now offers Shockwave Treatment
Shockwave Treatment now available at Sun City Physiotherapy: INDICATIONS: TREATMENT OF TENDONITIS AND TENDINOPATHIES HAMSTRING INJURIES MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS IN NECK/LOWER BACK ACHILLES TENDINOPATHY BURSITIS JUMPERS KNEE CALCIFIC ROTATOR CUFF TENDINITIS TRIGGER...
Full recovery after an ankle sprain.
It was a crisp autumn day when Sue decided to go for a hike. All of a sudden she caught her foot on the unstable ground and rolled her ankle. Her ankle was sore, swollen, tender to the touch and she felt unstable while walking on it. Eventually, after a couple weeks...