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Global Guidelines for Exercise During Pregnancy: Supporting Health for Mother and Baby
Exercise during pregnancy has long been recommended to support the health of both mother and baby. However, guidelines around exercise for pregnant women have evolved, with recent updates encouraging more women to stay active. These changes have been supported by scientific research showing that the benefits of exercise during pregnancy extend beyond physical fitness, contributing to better outcomes for both mother and baby
Understanding TMJ Dysfunction: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options with Osteopathy
Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction is a condition affecting the jaw joints and surrounding muscles, leading to pain, restricted movement, and discomfort. TMJ dysfunction can have a significant impact on daily activities, including eating, speaking, and even sleeping. While various treatment options are available, osteopathy stands out as a conservative and effective approach. This blog will explore the causes, diagnosis, and treatment options for TMJ dysfunction, emphasising how osteopathic care can be an integral part of the treatment plan alongside your dentist.
Why Leaking When You Run and Lift Isn’t Always a Weak Pelvic Floor
Experiencing urinary leakage while running or lifting heavy weights can be stressful, embarrassing and frustrating. It is often blamed on a "weak" pelvic floor, but this is an oversimplification. While pelvic floor weakness can contribute to stress urinary incontinence (SUI), it's far from the whole picture. Many other factors, including how you breathe, your posture, and even the load you're lifting, can play a significant role in leakage
Understanding Vertigo: Accurate Diagnosis for Effective Treatment
Vertigo is more than just a dizzy spell. For many people, more commonly over 50 years of age, it can be a disorienting and frustrating experience that disrupts daily life. At Eureka Health, we see many patients who have been struggling with vertigo, often after exploring various diagnoses and unsuccessful treatment elsewhere. If your practitioner has a sound understanding of vertigo, treatment should be extremely effective in resolving your symptoms. Our goal is to provide clarity and effective treatment by emphasising the importance of accurate diagnosis.
Understanding Positional Plagiocephaly: A Guide for New Parents
Osteoporosis and Osteopenia: Understanding, Managing, and Strengthening Your Bones
Osteoporosis and osteopenia are conditions that affect bone strength and fracture risk. Let’s dive into what these conditions are, why they happen, and the latest evidence on the best ways to manage them—especially through conservative methods like exercise, diet, and lifestyle changes.
Understanding Hip Pain: Types, Causes, and Treatment
Hip pain can have a wide variety of causes, from muscle strains and tendon injuries to joint issues like FAI, labral tears, or osteoarthritis. In some cases, the pain may even be referred from other areas of the body, such as the spine or pelvis. Getting a thorough assessment from a physiotherapist or osteopath can help pinpoint the exact cause of your pain and guide you toward an effective treatment plan that includes exercise, manual therapy, and pain management strategies.
TENS machines for Overactive Bladder - too good to be true?
Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common condition characterised by a frequent, sudden urge to urinate, often accompanied by incontinence. This condition can significantly impact your quality of life, leading to social, psychological, and physical distress. Needing to know exactly where all of the public toilets in Ballarat are situated is a common story that we hear! Transcutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (TTNS) has emerged as a safe and low risk approach for decreasing urinary urgency and frequency.
Understanding Shoulder Pain: Types, Causes, and Treatment
Shoulder pain is a common issue for many people. This post will break down the different types of shoulder pain, what could be causing it, and how physiotherapy and osteopathy can help in assessing, diagnosing, and treating your shoulder pain. Common shoulder complaints include frozen shoulder, rotator cuff related shoulder pain, dislocations, arthritis and referred pain.
Understanding Spinal Arthritis: Latest Evidence on Pathology and Treatment
Arthritis of the spine, or spinal arthritis, is a common condition that can lead to back and neck pain, stiffness, and discomfort, especially as we age. It refers to inflammation in the joints of the spine, which can cause a range of symptoms that affect day-to-day life. While the term “arthritis” is often associated with wear and tear, there are different types that affect the spine, each with its own causes and treatments. This post explores the different types of spinal arthritis, the latest understanding of the pathology, and the best conservative (non-surgical) treatment options—focusing the most common cause of arthritis that we see, osteoarthritis (OA).
The Eureka Pilates difference - have you noticed?
In the 6 years that we’ve been offering Pilates classes, the awareness and popularity of this great form of exercise has boomed. Across our Ballarat and Buninyong Studios we have a variety of instructors, all with their own style, experience, training and personality. No matter which class you choose, we continue to be passionate about small classes, safety, injury prevention and appropriate modifications for your body.
As a local independent business, our instructors are free to plan their own classes and choose their own music. We encourage you to try a few different instructors and figure out which class is your favourite, or mix and match!
Why do we have osteos and physios working together? Why you might choose to see one rather than the other?
Osteopaths and physiotherapists often work together in Australian private practice because their skills and approaches complement each other, allowing for a more comprehensive and holistic approach to patient care. Multidisciplinary care is the gold standard for many conditions and we wholeheartedly believe that it leads to better outcomes for patients. In our clinic we not only combine osteopathy and physiotherapy but also Remedial Massage, Pilates and Exercise Physiology. We have hand picked a team of clinicians that share our values and approach to healthcare, no matter their qualification.
Reducing the risk of Bone Stress Injuries in runners
Bone stress injuries (BSIs) are common among endurance runners and can often occur in the lead up to a running event, which can cause a significant pain and disrupt training, depending on the severity of bone stress.
There are ways to encourage strong bone tissue and promote longevity in running. In this article we provide tips to minimise your risk of BSI
Racing to the toilet isn’t normal: do you have an Overactive Bladder?
Why do i leak when i run/jump/cough/sneeze? Stress Urinary Incontinence explained
Why do i leak when i run/jump/cough/sneeze? Stress Urinary Incontinence explained. Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a common condition that affects many individuals, particularly women, resulting in involuntary leakage of urine during moments of physical exertion, such as coughing, sneezing, laughing, or exercising. Although it can significantly impact quality of life, there are effective management strategies available.
RED-S: Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport - What is it and what to do about it.
What is RED-S and what can you do to prevent it? In the world of sports, athletes constantly push their bodies to the limit, striving for peak performance. However, there’s a fine line between optimal training and overtraining, and crossing that line can have serious health consequences.
Dry needling - what is it and how can it help?
What is dry needling and how can it help? We answer all your questions about dry needling as a therapeutic technique to help with hip pain, low back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and lower limb pain.
Call the POLICE! The latest guidance on what to do after an acute injury
Over the years the guidance on how to treat acute injuries has gone through various phases despite a lack of high quality evidence. From RICE to RICER to PRICE and more recently, POLICE: (Protect, Optimal Loading, Ice, Compression, Elevation). Read on for our advice on what to do for acute strains and sprains.
Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) - what you need to know without freaking out
If you’ve ever googled the term “prolapse”, then you’ll know that it can be a deep, dark spiral - generally at 3am when you’re not thinking clearly. The stress, anxiety and shame around this diagnosis is generally unhelpful for anyone’s mental health or recovery. Read on to learn the basics about POP and, rather than googling, please book in with one of our pelvic health osteopaths or physiotherapists to make an individualised plan to address your concerns.
Dizziness Explained - When is it Vertigo?
Dizziness is a term that can be used to describe a range of feelings including feeling faint, giddy, unsteady, off-balance or light-headed. Vertigo is specific type of dizziness that feels as though you or the room around you are spinning. Our clinicians are well placed to help you with specific types of vertigo and dizziness. Read on to learn how