Yvonne Latsky Physiotherapy

14/07/2025

Please feel free to contact Lizanne Jansen or Corné Retief for physiotherapy appointments.

08/06/2023

Please take note!

04/09/2022

𝐆𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐮𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐬
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📚Gluteus Medius (GM) is typically recognized for its action an an abductor of the hip joint. However, in closed-chain scenarios (foot fixed to the ground), GM also helps control the proximal lower quarter, including the pelvis, spine and knee.

🔎Because GM is a hip abductor and operates in the frontal plane of motion, it is also intimately involved in controlling other aspects of the kinetic chain that move in the frontal plane. For instance, a lack of GM control can contribute to not only medial knee collapse (hip adduction), but also to contralateral pelvic drop (shown in this image) and lateral bending of the trunk.

🧠A lack of control at the hip, pelvis or trunk could be associated with the development of knee, hip or lumbar region pain or, depending on the activity, increase one’s risk of suffering certain injuries like ACL and MCL tears.

✅Checkout my YouTube video on this topic (link below), which shows five of the best exercises that can be done to train GM and the other hip abductors.

https://youtu.be/MAg3lXGGaD4

05/04/2022

I will start seeing patients from April, 12th. Please feel free to contact me to arrange an appointment.

05/01/2022

24/12/2021

Geseende Kersfees aan een en elk. Mag ons opnuut God se liefde en genade vir ons ervaar.

20/10/2021

RUNNERS!! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃Strength training is still important if you are a endurance runner. You need to maintain your optimal sterngth to prevent injuries caused by the repetitive nature of your running. 💪🦵👏👏

24/08/2021

It is our responsibility to take care of our health and the health of our loved ones.

Vaccination sites in the Overberg District for this week, 23 - 27 August 2021.
Sites in Overstrand will be operational from 09:00 - 14:00 weekdays.
Hermanus Auditorium: 23 ,25, 27 Aug 2021
Gansbaai Pretorius Hall: 23,25,26 Aug 2021
Hermanus CDC: 24, 26 Aug 2021
Kleinmond Portea Hall: 24 Aug 2021
Mt Pleasant Moffat Hall: 25Aug 2021
Stanford Community Hall: 26 Aug 2021
- Issued by Overstrand Municipality obo Dept of Health

17/08/2021

𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞
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👉Another awesome infographic from .eddiejo!

🏋🏼‍♂️”Exercise is Medicine" is a mantra that is widely and irrefutably accepted by the medical community as well as the general public. It is, although, largely percieved in a more figurative manner with the simple understanding that a lifestyle incorporating exercise is good for health and is thereby, "medicine".

🧠However, with growing knowledge of the biological mechanisms underlying the health promoting benefits of exercise, the popularized saying has developed a more literal and technical meaning. There is no question that in the world of metabolic syndrome and related diseases drug prescriptions supercede exercise prescriptions. Medical students are often taught the intricate mechanisms and biological targets for a variety of pharmacological treatments for conditions related to metabolic syndrome, but what is less emphasized is that many of these drugs are in fact exercise mimetics. In other words, they mimic a particular biological effect of exercise.

🔎As exemplified by this infographic, common drugs for metabolic diseases such as, type II diabetes and dyslipidemia exert their effects on biological targets that regulate processes like lipid breakdown, glucose uptake, mitochondrial biogenesis, liver and pancreatic metabolism, and inflammation, resulting in improved MANAGEMENT of the disease (not treatment). Much of their effects are also acute and thus, perpetual use is often required.

✅What may be less known and less communicated is that exercise is also an agonist for the very same targets, targets that are implicated in many of the physiological mechanisms through which exercise improves metabolic health. Not to mention, the benefits of exercise are largely both acute and chronic. So yes, even from a technical perspective, exercise is indeed medicine. Now only if exercise prescriptions were given more attention.

27/05/2021

Just a light joke for a Thursday morning!

As a neuro-musculoskeletal physiotherapy practice, we have a special interest in pain, stiffness, discomfort and weakness. We try to find the cause of your problem - if we can identify the cause, we can help take it away. Pain medication, anti-inflammatories or muscle relaxants can help you continue with your day and give your body time to heal. With our treatments we try to help the healing process on during the acute phase (recently acquired pain), but also help your body manage a more chronic pain (a pain that's been around for longer than 3 months).

Please contact me to book an appointment if you need help.

25/12/2020

Please, please read!!!

24/12/2020