Caesarean Section Scar Massage Scar massage can be an effective tool to keep the skin and connective tissue healthy as you recover from your C-section surgery. It may help to reduce pain through desensitising the nervous system, as well as prevent abnormal stiffness down the track by maintaining flexibility and preventing adhesions of the skin…
Corked muscles Everyone that plays contact sport, such as football, soccer or hockey, is at risk of getting a muscle corky or bruise. This occurs when there is a direct blow against an area of the body by another player, equipment, or landing on a hard surface. The direct blow damages the muscle, and it…
Tom Peters, Associate Physiotherapist from myPhysioSA Payneham, teaches how to loosen your calf muscles by using a foam roller. Tom demonstrates the best way to use the roller on your calf with key tips on the exact technique that works best. He uses the calf as his example, but this technique can be applied to…
Watch an experienced sports trainer demonstrate alternative taping techniques including ways to tape the thumb, wrist and fingers during a trainers taping workshop. Fred, a sports trainer in the Adelaide Hills, has been taping local AFL players for dozens of years and has developed very effective and unique solutions to taping around the hand and…
Follow the steps of how to tape an ankle for sport. Titled myPhysioSA Sports Physiotherapist and current Adelaide Football Club Physiotherapist, Rohan Hattotuwa, demonstrates and gives tips/advice on the correct way to give support to the ankle for any sport. This ankle taping is commonly used to give support for return to sport after ankle…
Follow the steps of how to tape a thumb for sport. Titled myPhysioSA Sports Physiotherapist and current Adelaide Football Club Physiotherapist, Rohan Hattotuwa, demonstrates and gives tips/advice on the correct way to give support to the thumb, including the MCP joint. This thumb taping is commonly used to give support for thumb sprains or thumb…
Follow the steps of how to tape a knee for sport. Titled myPhysioSA Sports Physiotherapist and current Adelaide Football Club Physiotherapist, Rohan Hattotuwa, demonstrates and gives tips/advice on the correct way to give support to a knee that has instability or is recovering from a ligament or other knee injury. Watch Rohan as he tapes…
Are your jaw muscles tight and sore? Ellie, a remedial massage and sports therapist at myPhysioSA North Adelaide, explains what could be causing your jaw pain, then teaches you how to massage your key jaw muscles to relieve the pain. Jaw pain and tightness is a common problem. The main cause is usually stress and…
Ellie will teach you how to do four different massage techniques that you can use to relieve your tennis elbow pain. Tennis elbow (or lateral epicondylitis) is pain on the outside of your elbow where the forearm muscles join onto the elbow. It can cause pain with gripping activities, typing or carrying. Ellie, a remedial…
If you get tight and sore calf muscles often stretching isn’t enough. Michael, an experienced myPhysioSA remedial massage therapist, demonstrates how you can massage the tension out of your own calf. It is quite easy to reach your own calf muscles if you are sitting down and self massage can be very effective. Michael shows…
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