Myotherapy Education & Blogs
Practical information on muscle health, soft tissue care, and strategies to support movement, recovery, and physical comfort.
What is Myotherapy?
Myotherapy can best be defined as the assessment, treatment & management of musculoskeletal conditions. To make sense of this, when you see a myotherapist, they will assess your condition to find out what is causing you pain, provide treatment in the form of manual therapy to correct the problem, and then manage you back to 100% health.
Texting Neck
In today’s modern society, the use of technology is endless. You can see it everywhere. For example using something simple as a microwave for heating up food, using the public transport system to catch a ride and most commonly using mobile phones to communicate with one another.
Our Natural Clock: Circadian Rhythms
The weather has cooled, daylight savings is over and it is now becoming darker sooner. With all of these changes, it’s clear that autumn is here. The weather has changed and so our body needs to change along with it. Natural sunlight has a plethora of wonderful benefits.
Stretching, Why Bother?
The complex pattern of muscles working together to stabilize, open, and close various joints in many combinations and with perfect timing is what enables us to generate force and power.
Lower Limb Hamstring Injurues
Are you a part of Australia’s large sporting nation? If so, it is crucial with the new seasons for many sports that we address preventative techniques and injury management protocols for those of you with existing pathologies due to sport related activities.
What Bad Posture Can Do To Your Body
Think back to your school days, sitting at a desk all day listening to the teacher! Sometimes you would tune out and start dozing off. You find your elbows in front of you on the desk slipping further onto the table and your slouching further and further forward.
What you need to know about Myofascial release
Myofascial Release is a method of deep tissue massage. It starts on the outer surface layers of the tissue, and works towards a deeper point throughout treatment, within your comfort level. MFR assists to enable changes in dysfunctional tissue by stretching it, to release it.
Remedial Massage and Acute Injuries - Practice Prevention and Early intervention.
From the moment of injury, it is acute. After three months, the injury is chronic and becomes a health burden requiring more treatment. It is important to aim to be healthy as possible
Getting Over the Winter Blues with Remedial Massage
Are you feeling those winter chills? Coats, beanies, gloves and scarves are all recipes to keep you warm and snug trying to avoid the dreaded cold and flu! Did you know that Remedial Massage could also greatly benefit your goals in preventing injury and keeping up good circulation in the cold months!
Shoulder Pain
As a Myotherapist, the primary goal is the assessment, treatment and management of musculoskeletal injuries. In regard to shoulder injuries and dysfunction, it is said that approximately 70% of the population will suffer from symptomatic shoulder pain at least once in their life time.