Inflammatory Back Pain & Spondyloarthritis | Brisbane Physio
Inflammatory Back Pain: Could It Be Spondyloarthritis? Lower back pain is incredibly common. Most presentations do not involve serious disease, and many people improve with time, appropriate activity and individualised management. But occasionally, someone presents with back pain that does not behave quite as expected. Perhaps the symptoms have continued for months. They feel particularly […]
Neurological Examination
Neurological Examination: What Is Your Physio Testing? A neurological examination is an important part of a physiotherapy assessment when symptoms suggest that the nervous system may be involved. This might include symptoms such as pins and needles, numbness, weakness, altered sensation, changes in coordination or pain travelling into an arm or leg. The purpose of […]
Pain at night? An Interesting, Bony, Case Of Inflammation
Why Does Pain Feel Worse at Night? Bone, Inflammation and Sleep Have you ever noticed that an injury or painful joint seems relatively manageable during the day, only to become more uncomfortable when you get into bed? Perhaps your shoulder aches when you lie on it. Your lower back becomes uncomfortable after you’ve been resting […]
What is wrong with my hand?
What Is Wrong With My Hand? Do you wake with tingling or numbness in your hand? Have your fingers started feeling clumsy when holding a pen, using your phone, doing up buttons or opening a door? There are a number of reasons this can happen, but one possibility is carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome […]
Is it all in my head???
Yes! But that is normal. The pain experience is something that occurs in the brain. When you damage a muscle, tendon or ligamentous tissue, chemicals are released into the surrounding tissues. These chemicals, like substance P, bind with nerve endings and generate an electrical impulse, which travels by special nerve pathways to the brain. Neither […]