Cooranbong Physiotherapy

22/11/2025

People often ask WHY they have pain, WHAT to do about it and HOW long will it take to get better. Book in to FIND OUT!

The answers may surprise you.

13/11/2025

Interesting! We often treat only the area, not the whole person. We don’t talk about other lifestyle factors that are important and contribute to their pain and dysfunction.

12/11/2025

Explaining how to do a hip flexor stretch:) Tuck your pelvis under first, then shift your body forward.

10/11/2025

Is this real or is this fake?

10/11/2025

AI Dennis teaches exercise poorly.
Let the real Dennis Breese show you in person at Cooranbong Physiotherapy!

01/11/2025

Did you know Cooranbong Physiotherapy offers dry needling?
Dry Needling
•reduces muscle tension and tightness
•Relieves pain and discomfort
•Improves range of motion
•Enhances muscle function
•Promotes faster recovery from injuries

01/11/2025

01/11/2025

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Complete rest feels safe,
like still waters after the storm.
But still waters grow stagnant.
And still bodies forget their strength.

Weeks of inactivity
Don’t heal, they unmake.
Muscle fades. Energy dulls.
The body forgets how to move.

Rest, yes.
Recover, always.
But never stop becoming.

Because stillness heals nothing
without the courage to rise again.

30/10/2025

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Your MRI doesn’t tell your story it only whispers a few lines.
Imaging shows structure, not strength.
It can’t measure resilience, adaptation, or how your body feels and functions.

Far too many surgeries are done because of what’s seen on a screen
tiny “abnormalities” that are often just normal signs of living.
Age-appropriate changes, not emergencies.

Before you rush to fix what may not be broken,
start with movement, education, and a real conversation.
You are not your MRI.
You are more than an image
you are function, healing, and potential in motion

28/10/2025

MUSCLE FATIGUE

Muscles fatigue when they can no longer generate the same amount of force or sustain activity, even though the effort continues. This happens because of several interacting physiological, biochemical, and neurological factors that disrupt how muscles produce and use energy.

Here’s a breakdown of the main causes:

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🧠 1. Neural (Central) Fatigue

Fatigue can start in the nervous system, not just the muscle itself.
• Reduced motor drive: The brain and spinal cord may reduce the frequency or intensity of signals sent to muscles.
• Protective inhibition: The body “turns down” output to prevent damage when energy levels are too low or metabolic by-products are high.
• Neurotransmitter depletion: Low levels of chemicals like dopamine or acetylcholine can reduce signal transmission efficiency.

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💪 2. Peripheral (Muscle) Fatigue

This occurs inside the muscle fibers themselves.

a. Energy depletion
• Muscles rely on ATP (adenosine triphosphate) for contraction.
• During intense or prolonged activity, stores of ATP, creatine phosphate, and glycogen become depleted.
• Without enough ATP, muscle fibers can’t sustain cross-bridge cycling (the mechanism that produces contraction).

b. Metabolic by-product accumulation
• Exercise generates hydrogen ions (H⁺), lactate, inorganic phosphate (Pi), and ADP.
• These alter muscle cell chemistry, reducing calcium release and sensitivity, and interfering with contraction.
• Contrary to popular belief, lactic acid itself isn’t the main culprit—it’s actually the acidic environment (low pH) that causes fatigue.

c. Calcium handling impairment
• The sarcoplasmic reticulum may release less calcium or fail to reuptake it efficiently.
• Calcium is essential for activating the actin–myosin interaction; if calcium regulation falters, force production drops.

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❤️ 3. Circulatory and Oxygen Factors
• Reduced blood flow (especially in sustained contractions) limits oxygen and nutrient delivery.
• Less oxygen means a shift from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism, which produces fatigue-related by-products faster.

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🔋 4. Recovery and Adaptation

Fatigue isn’t just failure—it’s a signal that the muscle needs rest and adaptation. After fatigue, the body:
• Replenishes glycogen and ATP stores
• Repairs microscopic damage to fibers
• Strengthens neuromuscular connections

25/10/2025

The power of AI

11/10/2025

Message from a chiropractor •

💥 Adjustments Don’t Move Bones

❌ Your spine doesn’t slip out of alignment like Jenga blocks.
�❌ No chiropractor is pushing vertebrae back into position.

👉 Here’s the truth:�Adjustments influence your nervous system, joints, and muscles — they can reduce pain, improve mobility, and make you feel better… but they are not realigning bones.

Believing the “bone out of place” myth only creates fear and dependency.
�The real long-term solution?
�✅ Education�✅ Movement�✅ Strengthening

Stop chasing the crack.
�Start building resilience.

✅ Want to learn how to fix your disc for life? DM me the word “pain” and you will get a free consultation with my team!