Platinum Physiotherapy

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year everyone!🥳❤️

21/12/2025

Women’s Health awareness🧘🏾‍♀️

Women may soon choose when menopause happens. Or if it happens at all.
A drug called Rapamycin slowed ovarian aging by 20% in human trials. It preserves eggs, extends fertility, and prevents health risks like osteoporosis.
The biological clock just got an off switch.
Shared for informational purposes only.
Source: Columbia University / The Lancet Healthy Longevity

19/12/2025

Just sharing a random patient perspective on knee arthritis. Happy Friday everyone!👋🏽

15/12/2025

The Waist-to-Height Ratio👋🏽

📏 The Golden Rule the Scale Won’t Tell You

We’ve all been trained to obsess over BMI. But here is the hard truth: The scale is lying to you.

You can have a "healthy" weight on the scale but still carry dangerous levels of visceral fat around your organs. This is the toxic fat that drives inflammation, heart disease, and insulin resistance.

That is why top longevity doctors are ditching BMI for a superior metric: The Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR).

The science is simple, and the rule is easy to remember.

Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height.

If you are 5'10" (70 inches), your waist should be less than 35 inches.

If you are 5'4" (64 inches), your waist should be less than 32 inches.

Why does this matter more than weight?

Because waist size is a direct proxy for visceral adiposity. When that ratio creeps above 0.5, your risk for metabolic disease and early mortality skyrockets—regardless of how much muscle you have or what the scale says.

How to measure correctly:
1️⃣ Stand tall and breathe out naturally.
2️⃣ Measure midway between the bottom of your ribs and the top of your hips (usually just above the belly button).
3️⃣ Do not suck it in. Be honest with the tape.

If you are over that 0.5 mark, don't panic. But do pivot.

Focus your training on compound movements and your nutrition on whole foods to drive that number down. Your heart will thank you.

References: Ashwell, M., & Gibson, S. (2016). Waist-to-height ratio as an indicator of ‘early health risk’: simpler and more predictive than using a ‘matrix’ based on BMI and waist circumference. BMJ Open. NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). (2022). Obesity: identification, assessment and management.

15/12/2025

Congratulations!!🥳🇲🇾

15/12/2025

An emerging trend: “Youth Retirement Home”.

"No KPIs, no 9-to-5. You can sleep until you wake up naturally and just daydream for the whole afternoon." https://says.com/my/news/this-youth-retirement-home-in-gopeng-offers-escape-for-stressed-out-young-adults-at-rm2000-month

15/12/2025

Congratulations!!🥳🇲🇾

11/12/2025

Curbing dengue✅

Perbadanan Putrajaya melepaskan 65,000 nyamuk Aedes Ber Wolbachia di Presint 18 sebagai langkah berterusan mengekang denggi.

09/12/2025

More options are now available for seniors❤️

“Most seniors say, ‘I’m okay, everything is fine.’ But we need the wisdom to see when ageing at home is no longer sustainable,” says the CEO of Pacific Senior Living, a senior living facility in Malaysia.

Rather than holding on to spacious but demanding family homes, some Malaysian seniors are embracing smaller, service-oriented communities that prioritise autonomy, activity and companionship. Read more: https://bt.sg/JcFMD

09/12/2025

Happy to note that Physiotherapists are indeed AI-proof. Good luck in trying to automate our profession😜✌🏽

Despite rapid shifts in certain fields, it's not all doom and gloom. https://says.com/my/tech/report-jobs-ai-replacement-risk

07/12/2025

The importance of regular Myofascial releases in optimizing your range of motion & musculoskeletal efficiency. Speak to a qualified Physiotherapist for more information✌🏽

Everyone is starting to realize how important fascia is when it comes to training the body, but most people still underestimate how deeply it influences movement.

Hydrated fascia behaves very differently, down to the cellular level. Not only does it participate in bioelectric signaling, it also plays a major role in how much range of motion your body can access during exercise. When this tissue is loaded correctly, it becomes elastic and responsive. Your muscles coordinate better, your posture improves, and energy becomes more stable because your body isn’t fighting itself to move.

When this tissue loses its elasticity and structural organization, your body begins moving in ways that increase tension, stiffness, and joint stress in the wrong areas. This is when people start experiencing the movement degradation that eventually leads to pain. Hydration in the body isn’t just about drinking more water. It depends on restoring the mechanical conditions that allow fluid to move through your tissue with minimal friction.

The visual on the left is exactly what we help you overcome through our training. This is what you see in the transformations we help people achieve, where their bodies begin to look more viscoelastic and full.

If you want to improve your movement, you not only need to strengthen the muscles that are weak, you also need to build the mechanics that distribute tension efficiently throughout your fascial system. The quality of your movement determines the quality of your tissue.

02/12/2025

6 years have passed since one of the most challenging times in human history.

Enam tahun lalu, di sebuah bandar bernama Wuhan, seorang lelaki mula rasa tak sedap badan. Mungkin pada dia cuma demam biasa. Tapi hari itulah yang kemudian direkodkan sebagai kes pertama COVID-19, satu titik kecil yang perlahan perlahan mengubah dunia dan hidup kita semua.

Beberapa minggu selepas itu, doktor di Wuhan mula perasan lebih ramai pesakit datang dengan radang paru paru yang pelik. Ramai ada kaitan dengan sebuah pasar yang sibuk. Masa orang masih sesak di tren, sibuk ke tempat kerja dan merancang sambutan Tahun Baru Cina, virus ini sudah menumpang dalam setiap batuk, dalam kereta api, dalam kapal terbang yang turun naik di seluruh dunia. Dalam diam, satu kluster di satu bandar bertukar menjadi pandemik.

Nama Wuhan mungkin jauh di peta, tetapi gelombang dari sana akhirnya sampai juga ke kampung paling hujung di Malaysia.

Kita pernah lalui PKP, sekolah ditutup, klinik dan hospital penuh, perniagaan gulung tikar. Ada yang kehilangan ibu bapa, pasangan, adik beradik.

Ada yang sampai hari ini masih sesak nafas bila naik tangga, masih menyusun semula kewangan dan hidup walaupun berita tentang COVID-19 sudah makin jarang kedengaran.

Bila kita imbas semula kisah index case di Wuhan, untuk ingat betapa cepat sistem kesihatan dan ekonomi boleh goyah bila muncul virus baharu.

Kalau ada satu benda yang patut kekal selepas pandemik, bukan rasa takut, tapi rasa bertanggungjawab.

Jaga diri bila sakit, hormati orang sekeliling, dan jangan ulang perangai “buat tak tahu” bila ada tanda jangkitan. Itulah cara paling senyap kita belajar daripada sejarah, tanpa perlu tunggu satu lagi virus baharu muncul sebelum kita berubah.