Impact Physiotherapy

24/10/2025

HAVING TROUBLE STICKING TO OR STARTING YOUR EXERCISE PROGRAM?

The thought of performing regular exercise can be daunting and tricky at the best of times, but it can be made even trickier for a variety of reasons.

A 2025 study by Grande et al (see link below), managed to narrow down the main reasons for people not being able to exercise to a therapeutic level (to improve pain, mobility, strength, social engagement, capacity for work and home duties etc) -

🙀 Fear and confusion about the actual injury or pathology.
😟 Worry that exercising might actually make the injury worse.
🥱 Feeling bored by the exercises and/or how repetitive they are.
😞Not having support from friends and family.
💰 ⏰️ Financial and time constraints.

So, how do we minimise or eliminate these barriers!?

✅️ EDUCATION!
✅️ Reassurance that pain doesn't always = damage and that sometimes our internal alarm system for pain needs a service/recalibration!
✅️ FIND EXERCISES OR MOVEMENT MEANINGFUL TO YOU!
✅️ Work around your work and home schedule and finanical constraints to allow best adherence. I.e. provide basic home equipment instead of a gym membership.

Let us help you understand your injury and provide you with meaningful and practical movement!

Call us on 9446 3833 to make an appointment. 💥

📖 Grande GHD, Vidal RVC, Salini MCR, Christofaro DGD, Oliveira CB. Barriers and Facilitators to Physical Activity and Exercise Among People With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2025 May;55(5):312-330. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2025.12905. PMID: 40298245.

18/10/2025

HAPPY WORLD MENOPAUSE DAY!

Sounds like an odd thing to be 'happy' about, WORLD MENOPAUSE DAY.

Truth is though, the more information we share about this time in the lives of our friends, mums, sisters, aunties etc, the more empowered we become to understand how this time can affect our WHOLE BODY and how we can implement changes to our sleep, diet and exercise regimes.

How we can incorporate help from our GPs, psychologists and physiotherapists to make it through this stage of life with the least amount of negative impact to our mind, bodies and lives.

How to stop feeling scared, ashamed, embarrassed or confused.

The time before menopause (menopause is actually one day, 12 months after our last menstrual period. Every day before that is when we are in perimenopuase and,every day after is,when we are postmenopausal) is when we start to experience many of the symptoms associated with menopause related hormone changes.

One of the biggest factors impacting us is the marked drop in estrogen.

Oestrogen is a part of or regulates a lot of our bodily functions and processes.

A drop in oestrogen is one of the reasons,why many women at this stage start to experience whole body/joint and muscles aches and pains, injuries such as Gluteal tendinopathy, rotator cuff issues, plantar fasciopathy and frozen shoulder.

It results in an accelerated loss in lean muscle mass and a resultant drop in bone density. This can leave us feeling weaker and can make us more prone to fractures if we fall.

So, what can we do???

Firstly. Coneect with a GP or Allied Health professional if you feel you may be entering their stage *swipe across to see a check-list from the wonderful *.

Hormone check and possible individualised menopause hormone therapy may be helpful.

Speak to your GP about access to a psychologist for mental health support if feelings of depression, anxiety, rage, brain fog are an issue.

Connect with your Physiotherapist to address any musculoskeletal issues and to develop a safe,and progressive muscle strengthening, power, balance and functional fitness.

Protein. Sleep. Stress. Address this too.

Let us take back control❤️

18/10/2025

Ready. Set. Goal! 🏃‍♂️

Sometimes, exercise and movement can feel like groundhog day. Same routine. Day in day out. Week in week out.

To add meaning to your movement, it can be helpful to attach it to a goal.

The video above shows walkers/runners and joggers from all walks of life, attending the weekly at Lake Monger.

Events like these, where you can monitor and build on your run time, can help you to stay motivated. The challenge of the event itself, coupled with the energy and motivation from the other runners, can put fire in your belly to push your efforts.

If you have a fitness or health based goal, let us know, and we can tailor your rehab and treatment towards that goal. ❤️

running

10/10/2025

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 🧠

Find your community ❤️

Meaningful social connections are so important for mental health. This is the focus of this year's world mental health day.

Your community might be found at your local coffee shop, with your surf crew, in a pilates class, at your friends house for your monthly book club or maybe in your Saturday cycling group.

Find a space for you. Where you feel safe and valued. Where you can have fun and just be yourself. ❤️

09/10/2025

02/10/2025

MENTAL HEALTH MONTH 🧠

The theme to this year's mental health awareness month (focused on World Mental Health Day in October 10) is 'Connect with your community'.

We understand how important valued and meaningful social and interpersonal connections are to good mental health.

Within our clinic, we understand how pain and injury can cause detrimental effects to good mental health. Illness and injury can impact on our sleep, day to day tasks and ability to exercise. We can be limited with our ability to socialise with friends, family, and sporting groups.

At Impact, we aim to acknowledge and address how injuries and pain can affect good mental health.

To combat this, we aim to

🌞Provide you with information regarding your injury so that you aren't confused or worried or seek 'Doctor google' answers, which may cause you more stress.

🌞Provide you with the knowledge and tools to keep you feeling in control of your recovery and rehab.

🌞Provide a safe space for movement and exercise. This can be within our Clinical exercise space and hydrotherapy pool.

Group based exercise at our clinic helps you stay connected socially and can further enhance good mental health.

The pic above outlines a great initiative from , where each day in October is assigned a small task to perform to enhance your mental health.

Swipe across to see the monthly calendar centred on 16-24 year olds.

For more info, head to the page or website.

25/09/2025

We hope that you all enjoy this coming long weekend.

We look forward to seeing you back in clinic on Tuesday September 30.

❤️ The Impact Team

25/09/2025

We absolutely love our archies things and slides and coming into the warmer weather, it may be time to refresh or add to your collection!

We stock both the slides and thongs in all sizes and a variety of colours.

Great as an early Christmas gift too!

$40 for the thongs and $60 for the slides.

23/09/2025

Find the fun!

Do you find yourself recovering from an injury and are struggling to stay connected and engaged with your rehab?

It's so important that your rehab align with movement and exercise that is MEANINGFUL AND FUN for you.
This improves adherence and then overall outcomes to the rehab.

If we know you love to surf, then we can aim to structure your rehab to include surf specific exercises or goals.

Or if you love to walk around the park, we can give you stretches or balance exercises for do at a park bench, so that you can habit stack your routine with your daily walks.

Let us know what you miss/want to do/love to do/want to try (zumba, crossfit, pilates, horse riding etc) and we can incorporate your chosen activity into your rehab as best as possible.

Call 9446 3833 for an appointment!