Cooranbong Physiotherapy

01/11/2025

Did you know Cooranbong Physiotherapy offers dry needling?
Dry Needling
•reduces muscle tension and tightness
•Relieves pain and discomfort
•Improves range of motion
•Enhances muscle function
•Promotes faster recovery from injuries

01/11/2025

01/11/2025

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Complete rest feels safe,
like still waters after the storm.
But still waters grow stagnant.
And still bodies forget their strength.

Weeks of inactivity
Don’t heal, they unmake.
Muscle fades. Energy dulls.
The body forgets how to move.

Rest, yes.
Recover, always.
But never stop becoming.

Because stillness heals nothing
without the courage to rise again.

30/10/2025

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Your MRI doesn’t tell your story it only whispers a few lines.
Imaging shows structure, not strength.
It can’t measure resilience, adaptation, or how your body feels and functions.

Far too many surgeries are done because of what’s seen on a screen
tiny “abnormalities” that are often just normal signs of living.
Age-appropriate changes, not emergencies.

Before you rush to fix what may not be broken,
start with movement, education, and a real conversation.
You are not your MRI.
You are more than an image
you are function, healing, and potential in motion

28/10/2025

MUSCLE FATIGUE

Muscles fatigue when they can no longer generate the same amount of force or sustain activity, even though the effort continues. This happens because of several interacting physiological, biochemical, and neurological factors that disrupt how muscles produce and use energy.

Here’s a breakdown of the main causes:

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🧠 1. Neural (Central) Fatigue

Fatigue can start in the nervous system, not just the muscle itself.
• Reduced motor drive: The brain and spinal cord may reduce the frequency or intensity of signals sent to muscles.
• Protective inhibition: The body “turns down” output to prevent damage when energy levels are too low or metabolic by-products are high.
• Neurotransmitter depletion: Low levels of chemicals like dopamine or acetylcholine can reduce signal transmission efficiency.

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💪 2. Peripheral (Muscle) Fatigue

This occurs inside the muscle fibers themselves.

a. Energy depletion
• Muscles rely on ATP (adenosine triphosphate) for contraction.
• During intense or prolonged activity, stores of ATP, creatine phosphate, and glycogen become depleted.
• Without enough ATP, muscle fibers can’t sustain cross-bridge cycling (the mechanism that produces contraction).

b. Metabolic by-product accumulation
• Exercise generates hydrogen ions (H⁺), lactate, inorganic phosphate (Pi), and ADP.
• These alter muscle cell chemistry, reducing calcium release and sensitivity, and interfering with contraction.
• Contrary to popular belief, lactic acid itself isn’t the main culprit—it’s actually the acidic environment (low pH) that causes fatigue.

c. Calcium handling impairment
• The sarcoplasmic reticulum may release less calcium or fail to reuptake it efficiently.
• Calcium is essential for activating the actin–myosin interaction; if calcium regulation falters, force production drops.

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❤️ 3. Circulatory and Oxygen Factors
• Reduced blood flow (especially in sustained contractions) limits oxygen and nutrient delivery.
• Less oxygen means a shift from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism, which produces fatigue-related by-products faster.

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🔋 4. Recovery and Adaptation

Fatigue isn’t just failure—it’s a signal that the muscle needs rest and adaptation. After fatigue, the body:
• Replenishes glycogen and ATP stores
• Repairs microscopic damage to fibers
• Strengthens neuromuscular connections

25/10/2025

The power of AI

11/10/2025

Message from a chiropractor •

💥 Adjustments Don’t Move Bones

❌ Your spine doesn’t slip out of alignment like Jenga blocks.
�❌ No chiropractor is pushing vertebrae back into position.

👉 Here’s the truth:�Adjustments influence your nervous system, joints, and muscles — they can reduce pain, improve mobility, and make you feel better… but they are not realigning bones.

Believing the “bone out of place” myth only creates fear and dependency.
�The real long-term solution?
�✅ Education�✅ Movement�✅ Strengthening

Stop chasing the crack.
�Start building resilience.

✅ Want to learn how to fix your disc for life? DM me the word “pain” and you will get a free consultation with my team!

10/10/2025

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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) is an inflammatory condition that often goes unrecognised because its symptoms - severe stiffness and pain - are mistaken for normal signs of ageing. It typically affects the shoulders, hips, and neck, with discomfort and heaviness most noticeable in the morning.

With the right treatment, PMR symptoms can usually be managed effectively, bringing much-needed relief after months of pain. Importantly, the condition is sometimes linked to Giant Cell Arteritis, a serious illness that requires urgent medical attention. Increasing awareness ensures people understand that persistent stiffness isn’t “just ageing” but could be a treatable condition.

Learn more: https://arthritisaustralia.com.au/types-of-arthritis/polymyalgia-rheumatica/

08/10/2025

Stretching can make you more flexible over time - but that’s not the same as being mobile.

Flexibility is how far you can move passively.
Mobility is how far you can move actively - with control.
Your nervous system only gives you long-term access to the ranges you can actually control.

This is why the stretch reflex kicks in when you wander into unfamiliar ranges, and why viscoelasticity means passive stretching is only a temporary fix.

To build lasting mobility, you need to position yourself well, load the tissues in and around the range you want, and train control - so your nervous system adapts and you keep what you gain.

Props to
From Matt Phippen

06/10/2025

Just posted the complete article.
While massage & manipulation feel good, it is Active movement such as strength and mobility that show the best results.

06/10/2025

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12494532/

Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is common. Physiotherapy is frequently indicated as a non-pharmacological management of these patients. This Bayesian network meta-analysis compared active versus passive physiotherapy versus their combination in terms ...

06/10/2025

What is ankylosing spondylitis?

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is often misunderstood as just a back problem, but it’s so much more. It can cause pain and stiffness in your back, but it may also affect your hips, shoulders, eyes, energy levels, and even your mental health.

Find out more: https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/conditions/ankylosing-spondylitis/