Sydney Spine and Pelvis Physiotherapy Centre

17/10/2025

Congratulations to Julie (SSP Physio reception) and Damian (SSP Grounds Maintenance) who both competed in the 2025 Triathlon World Championships in Woolongong on Thursday. An amazing effort from 2 amazing people!

24/09/2025

Wow, this course on Concussion assessment and treatment was detailed and long, but I am so excited to have done it and to start considering how to integrate this new knowledge into our practice, and our community!

06/08/2025

Sydney Spine & Pelvis Centre is excited to welcome Florence Biancardi to our team. Florence joins our team with 20 years of experience as a remedial massage therapist, integrative therapist and dedicated Ayurvedic Practitioner. She provides Integrative myo-fascial and myotherapy massages for general wellbeing, sports injuries, pregnancy and post-partum, lymphedema massage and Ayurvedic Abhyanga.
Florence will be available at our Drummoyne rooms on Thursdays. Please call 02-97199114 for appointments

27/06/2025

I am sharing part of a brilliant article that was in the Australian Financial review this week.. it is about stress related pelvic pain in men and this is something we unfortunately see too often in our clinic. Please contact us if you want to find help to get overactive pelvic floor muscles to relax as we use specific myo-fascial releases as well as teaching specific exercises that you can do (go to our website and scroll down through "what we treat" to find information about perineal pain and men's pelvic floor exercises). The link to the full article is at the end of this excerpt. Dr Barb Hungerford, Senior Musculo-skeletal physiotherapist

‘I was desperate’: the stress-related pain men don’t talk about
Men in high-stress, desk-bound jobs such as finance and corporate law are the fastest-growing group of patients for bladder problems.
by Madison Darbyshire:
Jun 25, 2025 – 2.16pm
There are two main drivers of those who come in with stress-related pelvic floor dysfunction: Are you Type A? And are you in a high-stress job?
Landon was working in client services at a large investment bank in New York when he felt a sudden, acute pain in his groin. It had been a bad day, and he was stressed.
“Everything just felt tight,” Landon (a pseudonym) said, and the “burning sensation, with sharp jolts” wouldn’t go away. Sex was painful, so he avoided it. It hurt to sit, so Landon stood at his desk on the trading floor. When his co-workers asked, he told them he had lower back pain. “They’d say, ‘Yeah man, me too’.”
The pain roamed – “some days left nut, some days right nut” – making it harder to explain to the specialists he saw. But doctor after doctor ran tests, each of which came back normal. “They all pushed me out the door, saying ‘You don’t have any infection, your prostate looks normal, you’re a healthy young man’,” Landon said.
Landon, 26, has always been a little bit anxious — a high achiever in school, he went straight into a demanding, high-pressure role in finance. “I spend all day delivering bad news to clients and getting chewed out,” he said. He thought about taking medical leave for the pain, but worried human resources wouldn’t believe him.
It wasn’t until Landon visited Pelvis NYC, a specialised physical therapy clinic, that he learned his pelvic floor – the group of muscles responsible for bladder control and holding multiple organs in place – was extremely tight. It’s a common problem among men, and yet Landon had thought only women had pelvic floors. But therapists who treat pelvic floor dysfunction say men – especially those in high-stress, desk-bound jobs such as finance and corporate law — are one of the fastest-growing groups of patients.
Many men don’t even know they have a pelvic floor, even though it controls basic functions including bowels, posture and sexual performance. Most don’t openly discuss their symptoms. Due to lingering stigma around penile pain and erectile dysfunction (ED), the men interviewed for this article agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity. ..
“Often the muscles of the pelvic floor have become overactive, and can’t relax,” said Chad Woodard, a researcher and doctor of physical therapy.

Men in high-stress, desk-bound jobs such as finance and corporate law are the fastest-growing group of patients for bladder problems.

27/04/2025

27/04/2025

We are Hiring!
Sydney Spine & Pelvis Physio is offering a unique opportunity for an experienced & dynamic physio to work alongside & be mentored by Barbara Hungerford & her experienced physiotherapy team in our inner west Sydney practice. Are you keen to expand your diagnostic & manual therapy skills for treating back, pelvic, hip, thoracic, Womens health and cranio-cervical/ concussion injuries while working in a supportive and inclusive environment?
The position can be P/T or F/T and offers:
1. An opportunity to undertake a mentorship program with Barb that will fast track your manual therapy, Musculo-skeletal & muscle re-education skills. Intensive 1:1 training is part of the package
2. expand your clinical reasoning, diagnostics & treatment for a variety of musculo-skeletal, sports, spinal, post-op, pregnancy related injuries, and concussion treatment.
3. Excellent wages & conditions
4. Regular In-services & Professional Development funding
Please email admin@sspphysio.com.au for more information or check out our website.

18/12/2024

Our Sydney Spine & Pelvis team wish all our clients, Specialists and followers a restful and wondrous Festive Season! We will be open until mid day on Tuesday 24 December and then closed for 1 week. We will re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2025, and we will be refreshed and happy to help you if you need us. Best wishes for good health and lightness of movement as you move into 2025!

09/09/2024

It was wonderful to catch up with Jay Cunningham at the Concussion Recovery & Treatment course run by Gail Wetzler in Ayr Scotland last week. Jay is enjoying living in the U.K but I know she misses all of us in Sydney as much as we miss her. The course was brilliant, and has given me an update into the latest research and treatment criteria for helping both kids and adults through acute and long term post-concussion issues. In the meantime, we just happened to be in Ayr as their annual Airshow happened, and we watched some amazing aerial stunts and WWII planes do a fly by!

01/08/2024

"Early Knee Osteoarthritis: Exercise Therapy's Golden Window"
This new research from the Netherlands gives a very simple message for all of us
- starting specific exercise therapy to strengthen gluteal and knee muscles within 1 (maximum 2 ) years of when symptoms started will significantly reduce your knee pain and improve function both in the short term and with longer term benefits

Knee pain slows you down and makes it hard for you to do the things you love. So if you have started to get knee pain and it is concerning you, come and see one of our physios so we can teach you the right exercises to do to make a difference!
written by Barb Hungerford

24/12/2022

Merry Christmas everyone! We all hope you enjoy a wonderful and restful festive season!
SSP Physio is closed until 3 January while we undergo minor renovations and painting. We will open with a sense of freshness and readiness to help you feel better in your body into 2023!

04/12/2022

A beautiful evening for our SSP Physio Staff Christmas dinner 2022