10 Minute Daily Stretch
Stretching is an essential part of fitness and overall health. Stretching maintains muscles can help improve flexibility and strength and helps keep muscles and tendons healthy. Incorporating a stretching program into your daily routine can improve your flexibility and overall mobility. Stretching may also help you feel less pain associated with muscle tightness and muscle soreness after exercise. Try […]
What are the benefits of foam rolling?
Dr Paul Hermann, a dual titled Sports & Exercise Rehab Osteopath and Exercise Scientist, and the founder of Stay Tuned, recently joined Casper Magazine to chat about the benefits of foam rollers and how to choose the right one for you! What is foam rolling? Self-myofascial release (SMR) is a term used to describe how the […]
Cold Therapy and Breathing Our Way To Less Stress
Cold Therapy & Breathing Our Way To Less Stress! With the global covid-19 pandemic taking the forefront of our lives this year, we can see the implications that an increased stress can take on our health, relationships and many other facets of our lives. Many of us manage try to manage our stress differently, from […]
Telehealth Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some frequently asked questions we get around Telehealth consultations! What are Telehealth consultations? Essentially Telehealth consultations are a form of online consultation that allows patients to receive essential health services without direct physical contact. Not only this, but Telehealth provides an alternative for people who are overseas, home-bound or unable to make it […]
10 ways to make your ACL rehab easier!
10 ways to make your ACL rehab easier! Having an ACL reconstruction is never going to be easy, having gone through one myself in 2017 I can tell you it’s no walk in the park. However, there are ways to make life a bit more bearable – especially in the first few weeks. 1) Get […]
Knee pain and the hip-knee continuum.
Knee pain and the hip-knee continuum. Knee pain in the gym recently? It might be time to load up the hips! Knee pain is one of the most common presentations we see here at Stay Tuned Sports Medicine and it affects 25% of adults at some stage in their lives (Nguyen et al., 2012). In […]
Should you rest after an injury?
Should you rest after an injury? Perhaps not. Traditionally, our immediate response to a musculoskeletal injury is to rest and let the body heal itself; everyone who has done basic first aid knows that the R in R.I.C.E. is rest! However, the importance of rest has been greatly overemphasised in the past, and this thinking […]
What Exercise Does To Your Body
If I told you there was a pill that could improve your lifelong physical, emotional and mental state each day you took it, would you give it a chance? Evidence from the past 20 years has been pointing to exercise and physical activity as the frontier of preventative medicine and considering the health benefits it […]
Hydrotherapy: workout in water!
HYDROTHERAPY: Water As A Workout! And you don’t need to be able to swim! Research is consistently showing hydrotherapy, or aquatic exercise, to be as effective as land-based exercise in reducing pain and improving function [3][7]. It’s no wonder that hydrotherapy has been used as a treatment modality for hundreds of years! It’s low impact […]
My Favourite Exercises
My Favourite Exercises! Exercise is one the most easily prescribed mode of treatment to improve health and wellbeing. There is irrefutable evidence that suggests the beneficial effects of exercise to prevent and treat several diseases. I feel privileged that I am able to use exercise as a form of treatment. In doing so, I always […]