Stephen Morris, PT and Massage

11/10/2024

Important for all 🤔

The language of touch binds our minds and bodies to the broader social world. What happens when touch becomes taboo?

15/09/2024

Keep your strength

08/08/2024

This meta-analysis showed that massage therapy can significantly lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with hypertension and prehypertension. The reductions in blood pressure were comparable to those achieved by some antihypertensive medications, highlighting the potential to use massage therapy as an adjunct treatment for hypertension.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25419947/

31/07/2024

Calming 😊

University Hospitals published a large study showing that massage therapy is comparable to medication in helping with pain, stress and anxiety in kids with some types of cancer and sickle cell anemia.

24/07/2024

22/06/2024

Get out and about everyone 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

Australian research finds people who walked three to five times weekly stayed pain-free almost twice as long

10/05/2024

Strength is helpful 😊

Weights training isn't just about getting ripped. Building muscles can stave off diseases and improve your quality of life as you age. These experts share ways to do it.

13/04/2024

Interesting story from ABC. Keep your bones and muscles strong for better quality of life now.

In the middle of a bushfire emergency, I tripped and sustained an injury that would deliver a sobering lesson in the universal experience of ageing. It was time to start taking care of my bones — by lifting heavy weights.

10/03/2024

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-10/geriatric-trauma-service-in-melbourne-alfred-hospital/103550576
Look after yourself as you age. Strength train and do balance exercises. Starting small and simple is better than not starting 🙂

In Australia's biggest trauma hospital, doctors are seeing an increase in older patients suffering injuries from falls. They say it is only going to get worse.

08/02/2024

Interesting read. Keep thinking 😉https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-at-any-age/202401/a-new-way-to-look-at-brain-age?utm_source=FacebookPost&utm_medium=FBPost&utm_campaign=FBPost&fbclid=IwAR1VMcseG14Jm6XeBvqxiyRBSC7A1emDHMxNWAmwicwGPgCWSoPNpb0Zcsg

31/01/2024

Good for everyone !!

More and more women are heading to the gym to pump weights, a space once dominated by men.

29/12/2023

Best thing you could do ! Fitness and socially 😀🚶‍♀️🏃🚶🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

Struggling for a New Year's resolution? How about joining parkrun's Feel Good Movement?!

Come together, move how you like and feel good 😍