Physiotherapy

I have been training to complete the 10km run at the Melbourne marathon and have started to experience Achilles pain during my runs. It has been going on for 8 weeks now and isn’t settling. I experience it at the start of my run but goes away about 1km in but is worse about an hour after I stop. It is also quite sore first thing in the morning when I get out of bed. Nothing I do seems to help to reduce the pain when I go back to running. What can I do to manage this pain?

“I have been doing a lot of house renovations recently and have started to experience pain on the outside of my elbow with opening jars and carrying the shopping. It gets better with the more I move, but gets worse once in have stopped moving. My GP says that I have Tennis Elbow, how can I have this when I don’t play tennis?”

At Evado Studios, we’re seeing more and more runners. Some are chasing personal bests, others hoping to cross the finish line injury-free. As physiotherapists, we love seeing our clients move well and perform at their best. But this time of year, we also see a rise in preventable injuries caused by overtraining, muscle imbalances, and skipping recovery. Find out what the most common running injuries are and why cross-training is often the missing link.

Osteoarthritis affects approximately 2.2 million Australians, or 9.3% of the population. Read what to do about it!

Do you find yourself digging your fingers in around your jaw? Perhaps you wake with stiffness in the jaw, suffer from headaches, ear pain or even the feeling of an itchy, irritated throat? Yep, all of these and other symptoms can fall under the term commonly referred to as TMJ or TMD. So what does all of that mean, and more importantly, what can be done to relieve this pain?