City Physiotherapy – Adelaide Physio
Read about treatment and exercise advice from the team at City Physiotherapy in Adelaide.
We provide you with an extensive variety of physiotherapy topics and practical advice to assist you to get better as quickly as possible.
We want to educate and inform you about your body, and how physiotherapy can elevate the quality of your everyday life.
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How To Prevent 5 Common Dance Injuries
20 December 2022Why do dance injuries occur? Dance is an incredibly physically demanding sport, with long hours of training with precise, controlled, repetitive movements required. Dancers are also often left with little time to recover. Overuse injuries are therefore very common amongst dancers, as certain muscles are constantly being used. Whether professional or social, dance requires significant […] Tags:
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Foam Rolling Can Help Keep You Injury Free
28 March 2022Foam Rolling Benefits Recovery and Reduces Pain No one enjoys having tight muscles, it makes everyday tasks difficult, and you may not be enjoying the full benefit of your exercise routine. If you are noticing tight muscles, particularly after exercising, you might want to consider incorporating foam rolling into your warm-up or cool down. […] Tags:
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What Does A Physiotherapist Do?
16 January 2022What is physiotherapy? Physiotherapy is an allied health profession that helps patients through movement and physical treatment methods in addition to addressing the individual factors that contribute to a patient’s pain story. As physiotherapists are registered primary healthcare practitioners, you don’t need a referral to make an appointment. Physical methods of physiotherapy may include hands […] Tags:
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Getting back into gym after taking time off? How to get the most out of your training, and stay injury-free!
10 June 2020Back into Gym With restrictions around COVID-19 lifting, gyms, amongst other exercise centres, are re-opening. The temptation is to jump back into our exercise routines, just as we would’ve done, some months ago. This can lead to potential injuries and interrupt our return to being active! Our Physiotherapist Fraser Green, who is passionate about all […] Tags:
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Tracking Your Injury Recovery Progress
3 November 2019Recovering from an injury takes time and tracking your injury recovery progress can be a challenging time for you. Your recovery process can be influenced by a large number of factors all influencing the time taken for you to fully recover. Depending on the severity, nature and duration of your injury, it can take longer […] Tags:
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Breaking the cycle of chronic pain. What is chronic pain?
1 November 2019One in five Australian adults suffer from chronic pain. It affects one in five people globally and is the primary reason people seek medical treatment. In most cases, chronic pain starts with an acute injury or illness. Sometimes, what can happen, is that even after you’ve healed from an injury, surgery or other conditions, the pain […] Tags:
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Sprained Ankle in Runners
30 September 2019It’s true that most of us don’t want to stop running when we are in injured. How often have you heard someone say their ankle injury was just a twisted ankle? As Physiotherapists in a busy sports injury clinic, we hear this quite a bit, but unfortunately, it is often well after someone sprains their […] Tags:
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Lower Back Pain When Walking or Running
13 September 2019As Physiotherapists a regular complaint by patients is the experience of increasing lower back pain when walking or running. There is a common misconception that because we are undertaking exercises this should not lead to pain, it should be helpful shouldn’t it? To find out the answers to these questions and more keep reading below. […] Tags:
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Pulled Muscle?
30 August 2019Experiencing a pulled muscle during a run, exercise or physical activity usually not only painful but can be quite frustrating for us too. Usually a pulled muscle will stop you in your tracks, so you aren’t able to keep running, exercising or doing what you were doing. We might try and rest a pulled muscle […] Tags:
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Rotator Cuff Tear
17 August 2019The Good News about Treatment for your Rotator Cuff Tear Recent research suggests that conservative management with physiotherapy in the first 12 weeks following a rotator cuff tear, has just as good an outcome as surgery, without the risks involved with the surgery and no guarantee surgery will be successful. Will Physiotherapy help? Yes, […] Tags:
