Hindmarsh Physio and Sports

03/09/2025

Early Rehab vs. Surgery — What Influences Your ACL Recovery

Injured your ACL? Your recovery path depends on your lifestyle, activity level, and stability needs.

• For less active individuals, conservative rehab—focusing on regaining movement, strength, and control—may be effective.
• If you experience persistent instability despite physiotherapy, ACL reconstruction may be recommended to protect your knee long-term.

Whether you're leaning toward rehab alone or considering surgery, a physiotherapist-led programme helps maximise outcomes and reduce future injury risks.
Our Experienced Physio Jack can help you make this important decision

02/09/2025

Tailored Exercise Medicine May Prolong Life in Patients with Cancer

What did the study find?
They found that patients with cancer with higher levels of physical fitness had a significantly reduced risk of mortality compared to those with lover levels.

Patients with higher muscle strength had a 31% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those with low muscle strength. Additionally, each increase in muscle strength was associated with an 11% further reduction in mortality risk.
Patients with higher cardiorespiratory fitness had a 46% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those with low fitness levels. Notably, each unit increase in cardiorespiratory fitness was associated with an 18% lower risk of cancer-specific mortality.

Importantly, higher muscle strength and cardiorespiratory fitness were particularly protective for patients with advanced cancer stage (reducing mortality risk by 8–46%), as well as for those with digestive (41%) and lung cancer (19–31%).

01/09/2025

Why Falls Happen — And How We Can Help

Did you know? More than just losing your footing, falls often start with subtle changes—like weakened muscles, stiff joints, dizziness (vertigo), fatigue, or even side-effects from medications. These small shifts can add up.

At Hindmarsh Physio, we don’t just react—we assess. Through tailored assessments, we identify the root causes of falls and build you a custom exercise plan that blends balance retraining, strength-building, endurance, and flexibility.

The goal? Not just to prevent falls—but to help you maintain your confident independence.

Ready to explore how we can support you? Ph 83462000

Healthy tip: Try standing on one leg for a few seconds each day while brushing your teeth—start holding onto something and challenge yourself safely.

31/08/2025

Research suggests that occupational physical activity (i.e., heavy physical work) alone does not provide the same health benefits as leisure time physical activity and is not a substitute for regular exercise.

Our Physiotherapists can work around your hours, assess your abilities and provide practical ideas and a tailored program to help you achieve your physical goals for work and life.

30/08/2025

Supporting education about Women’s Health

29/08/2025

How can Physiotherapy help.
Our women’s health physiotherapist can treat and advise you on many conditions and symptoms relating to your body, movement, pregnancy, s*x, and even general health. No complaint is ever too minor or irrelevant.

Women's health encompasses pregnancy preparation, prenatal care and comprehensive postnatal rehabilitation. It also addresses pelvic floor dysfunction and strengthening, prolapse management and support, urinary incontinence treatment, bowel issues, s*xual dysfunction and pain, complex birth recovery and persistent pelvic pain conditions.

It also addresses pelvic floor dysfunction and strengthening, prolapse management and support, urinary incontinence treatment, bowel issues, s*xual…

29/08/2025

Are you strugling with keeping your balance, being lightheaded or dizzy
Dizziness, including vertigo, can happen at any age, but it is common in people aged 65 years and over 👇👇

In our website resources we describe some of the most common causes of feeling dizzy

Heres one to think of : Neurological Conditions

Often more serious causes of dizziness, conditions that affect our brain can include multiple sclerosis (nerves lose the ability to communicate with each other), cerebral vascular accidents (loss of blood flow to a part of your brain), and Parkinson’s Disease (a neuro-degenerative disease due to the loss of local dopamine).
Check out our blog for others 👇👇

26/08/2025

Those Pesky Ankle Sprains
3 Tips to best prevent ankle sprains
· It all starts at the feet.

Appropriate footwear which is well fitting and which provides adequate support to the make up of your foot

· Balance is key!

Adequate balance and proprioception will put you in good stead when wanting to avoid ankle injuries. Practicing and testing your balance on different surfaces and under different conditions with aid in the prevention of ankle sprains.

· Listen to your body.

If you experience ankle pain during sport, stop the activity or modify the activity until the pain subsides. If you have been injured you should go through an appropriate period of rehabilitation to prevent recurrent injuries
Check out our website resources for more information

26/08/2025

Mastitis- Tips to help
Seeking prompt and effective treatment at the first signs of mastitis will help halt your progression through the spectrum; as early identification of the stage of mastitis pathology is crucial in providing the appropriate advice for treatment.

Continue breastfeeding
Mastitis is not contagious, or a contraindication to stop breastfeeding.

Focus on Physiological breastfeeding
Feed your baby on demand, and do not aim to empty the breasts more than what baby consumes.

Mothers using breast pumps should express milk at a frequency and volume that mimics baby’s physiological needs, only expressing the volume their bub consumes.
But what if I can’t get any milk out?

In some cases, the breast may be so swollen and inflamed little to no milk is expressible. In this case, it may be appropriate to reduce feeds from the affected breast until you have reduced the inflammation (Don’t worry, we’ll help you do this!)
Reduce Inflammation

Ice application, lymphatic drainage massage, and nonsteriodal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can be beneficial in reducing swelling, inflammation, and provide symptomatic relief.

Apply Ice
Ice can be applied topically to the area of affected breast tissue every hour or more frequently if desired in between feeds.

Perform Lymphatic drainage massage
Using cupping and sweeping strokes, perform light massage over the breast towards the armpit for a minimum of 5 minutes immediately post-feed.

Utilise Therapeutic Ultrasound
This uses thermal energy to reduce inflammation and relieve swelling. Come and visit us in the clinic to have one of our physiotherapists apply your therapeutic

25/08/2025

Shoulder pain an issue?
Understanding the rotator cuff
Your shoulder is one of the most mobile joints in the body—and that’s thanks to a small but mighty group of muscles called the rotator cuff.

🦴 Four key muscles:

Supraspinatus – lifts your arm out to the side

Infraspinatus – helps you rotate your arm outward

Teres Minor – works with the infraspinatus for external rotation

Subscapularis – rotates your arm inward and stabilises the shoulder joint

Together, these muscles keep your shoulder stable, strong, and moving freely.

The problem? When these muscles or their tendons become irritated, strained, or torn, simple movements—like reaching overhead, getting dressed, or sleeping on your side—can become painful.

Check out our website RESOURCES where we break down how these injuries happen, symptoms to look for, and what you can do to protect your shoulders.

24/08/2025

“Strong Now, Ready Later”
Build strength now, enjoy spring without setbacks

Winter is the best time to build strength, improve mobility, and fix those little issues that hold you back.
A few focused physio sessions now can set you up for a strong, pain-free return to gardening, sport, or longer walks when the weather warms. Its not far away

Start your end of winter program today. Ph 83462000

Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy involves the thorough assessment, treatment and management of the aches and pains arising from…