The Importance of Good Posture
A good posture is just as essential as a healthy diet, sleeping comfortably and exercising. It ensures that your body is well poised to undertake daily tasks with more vigour and energy, all the while keeping away fatigue. So then, what is posture, and how can one maintain it?
Finding Your Sole Mate: Tips for Choosing The Right Walking Shoe
Most of our foot and leg problems result from wearing the wrong kind of shoes, therefore, it is extremely important that you buy your walking shoes with care.
Link Between Physiotherapy & Heart Attack Recovery
A heart attack can be a major and unexpected disruption to anyone’s life. While certain lifestyle choices or genetic predispositions can make our level of risk easier to assess, anyone can suffer a heart attack. Despite this, few people think of this as something to consider, and there is a lack of information regarding the realities of surviving a heart attack. In this blog, we will look the role physiotherapy plays in heart attack recovery.
Common Rugby Injuries
Rugby is one of the most popular sports in Ireland, as well as one of the roughest. Although many sports are classified as contact sports, few take this classification as literally as rugby. There are very few parts of the body that can escape from a match unscathed, although usually the injuries are inconsequential.
Common Cycling Injuries
With National Bike Week taking place from the 11th to 19th of June, many more people will be taking to the road than usual. Unfortunately an increase in bikes on the road goes hand in hand with an increase in cycling related injuries. This blog will outline some of the more common ones and the best way to deal with them.
VHI Women’s Mini Marathon
The VHI Women’s Mini Marathon has grown to be the biggest all-women’s event of its kind in the world. With over 40,000 women taking part each year, it is inevitable that there will be a few injuries. Although there are first aid points dotted along the route, it’s always better to take preventative action when it comes to exercise, so here are a few things you can do to help prevent any injuries.
The Benefits of Yoga
Yoga has always been a popular form of exercise and relaxation, and with good reason. Research from institutions as reputable as Harvard has shown time and time again that yoga has measurable benefits in many different areas.
Gardening: Tips to Avoid Injury
Gardening may not seem like the most dangerous pastime in the world, but like most things in life, it can be damaging if done incorrectly. We’re going to look at what some common gardeing injuries are, and what you can do to prevent them.
Physiotherapy and Asthma Treatment
While there is no substitute for medication, physiotherapy can help reduce the severity and frequency of asthma attacks, as well as the dose required to treat them.
The Importance of Keeping Kids Active
Even more important than keeping ourselves active is keeping children active. Encouraging children to engage in physical activity is crucial to their lifelong health, we will outline the reasons why here.
Growing Pains
Like teething, growing pains are often seen as inevitable and something that simply must be endured. Fortunately, that is not the case. Physiotherapy can be used to alleviate growing pains, and you may be surprised at how quickly you will see results.
Common Football Injuries
As with any sport, there are certain injuries that are more common than others in football. So in this blog, we’re going to look at what the most common injuries are and how to prevent them.
Women’s Health Physiotherapy
Although large parts of physiotherapy apply to both men and women, there are a number of areas that are more common in or exclusive to one of the sexes. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the specific issues that a women’s health physiotherapist would address.
Children & the Effects of Tablet Use
While most people are at least somewhat conscious of a child’s psychological development in relation to the overuse of technology, fewer take into consideration the effects it can have on their physical development.
Common Swimming Injuries
Swimming is a great way to get an all-over workout and stay healthy. But as with all exercise, it can lead to injuries if it is improperly carried out. If you are an avid swimmer, it is important to be aware of these injuries, and what you can do to prevent them.
The link between depression and back pain
Depression and back pain may seem like two issues that are completely unrelated, but a number of studies have shown that they are in fact closely linked.
Respiratory Problems and Physiotherapy
While many people may assume that physiotherapy is the last thing that a person with respiratory issues should be doing, the opposite is in fact true. Proper breathing technique is a major part of most physical therapies, and physical training in general.
Cupping Therapy
Cupping therapy is a form of therapy where suction cups are placed around various parts of the body. It is an alternative therapy that has been used in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for thousands of years. Many people believe that the suction from these cups helps to encourage blood flow and healing.