It seems these days we’re all a little bit too savvy when it comes to finding excuses not to exercise… “I’m too busy.” “My kids don’t leave me alone.” “I’m too exhausted at the end of the day.” “I’ve tried and failed too many times.” At Sportreat & TotaLife Care, we believe that exercising doesn’t…
Final Year Physiotherapy Student offering discounted Physiotherapy treatment
This October and November we will be hosting a final year Physiotherapy Student from Curtin University. This is becoming a tradition at Sportreat. We love being able to provide this opportunity to students as it allows us to pass on valuable knowledge and experience to those soon entering the Physiotherapy workforce. It also gives the…
The weight of texting too much
Sore neck? Headaches? Sore upper shoulders? Use your phone, tablet or laptop a lot? You probably have Text or Tech Neck. Here at Sportreat and TotaLife Care we have noticed a rapidly increasing number of people presenting to us with dull neck/shoulder pain and nagging headaches. The common denominator mobile phone use! So we put…
Clinical Pilates vs. Regular Pilates
We’ve noticed over the past couple of years a huge increase in the popularity of Pilates, and we definitely understand what all the hype is about! We often get asked what the difference is between Clinical and regular Pilates is, so we thought we’d break it down for you all in a blog post! Pilates…
Workplace Ergonomics
Do you spend all day sitting in front of a desk? End up arriving home with that chronic back or neck pain day in day out? Below are some handy tips from Sportreat Physiotherapist Holly Thillainath on how to set up your work environment along with some guidelines that you can follow: Spinal pain or…
The Core of Our Body
This week we take a look at the CORE of our body and no I don’t mean a six pack or in my case a flab pack I am talking about the trunk of our body. There is no doubt that we all have our own theory on what the Core of our body serves…