Pain
How Do I Keep My Joints Healthy After 50?
Key Takeaways Joint changes after 50 are common, but stiffness and pain are not inevitable, and much of your joint health stays within your control. Regular movement that blends strength, range-of-motion, low-impact cardio and balance work helps nourish cartilage and support the muscles around each joint. Everyday habits such as managing your weight, eating well…
See MoreDay Surgery Joint Replacement: Can You Go Home the Same Day?
Key Takeaways Same-day discharge after a joint replacement is possible for some carefully selected people, though staying a night or two is just as normal and often the sensible choice. Going home sooner is made possible by enhanced recovery protocols, modern anaesthesia, gentler surgical techniques, and getting you moving early. Suitability comes down to your…
See MoreWhat Does an Exercise Physiologist Actually Do for Joint Pain?
Key Takeaways An exercise physiologist prescribes movement as treatment, not general fitness, and is trained for painful joints and complex histories in ways a personal trainer is not. Well-judged movement, loading and strength usually help more than rest, since long periods of inactivity leave a joint stiffer and weaker. Care starts with a detailed assessment,…
See MorePhysio or Surgeon for Joint Pain: Who Should You See?
Key Takeaways Active, movement-based care helps most joint pain, so surgery is rarely the place to start. Physiotherapy and exercise physiology are first-line for many problems, including osteoarthritis, tendon issues, and sprains, in line with current Australian guidelines. An orthopaedic opinion makes sense when conservative care has not helped enough, or when an injury is…
See MoreWhat is a Baker’s Cyst? How its diagnosed and treated.
Every other day at MTP Health patients present with concerns about being diagnosed with a Baker’s cyst or Popliteal cyst. Understandably, finding out you have a “cyst” in your knee sounds bad. But the good news is they really are harmless. Without a doubt they can be annoying and a little uncomfortable at times but…
See MoreMeniscal Tears
“Unlocking the Mystery of Meniscal Tears: Diagnosis and Treatment for a Common Knee Injury” What are meniscal tears? The menisci are C-shaped pieces of cartilage in your knee that act as shock absorbers and help to stabilise the joint. A meniscal tear is a common injury that occurs when one or both of these pieces…
See MorePlantar Fasciitis – Functional not Structural
In our series about breaking the cycle of recurring injuries, I outlined the difference between Structural and Functional issues. Thankfully, although plantar fasciitis can be incredibly painful, it is an injury that falls into the functional category which means it can be addressed if you improve the way you move. What is Plantar Fasciitis? Plantar…
See MorePain [The Ultimate Guide]
The Ultimate Guide to Pain Pain can be a complex, emotionally charged topic that truly is one of the most interesting phenomena faced in modern healthcare. It holds no bounds & affects people in a multitude of ways. And yet, for most people, it holds an authoritative quality to it. It tends to be demanding,…
See MoreWhat is Pain?
By Nick Burrows, MTP Exercise Physiologist Pain is a long studied and misunderstood concept, however recent insights have led to greater understanding of what pain is and how it comes about. The first thing we need to realise is that pain is an output of the brain, not an input from the tissues of the…
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