by Cassie Sandison | Oct 11, 2018 | Broken Bones, Exercise, Physiotherapy
You’ve broken your arm or leg so there’s nothing to do now but play the waiting game. Right? Wrong! New evidence is out showing people immobilised for fractures benefit from performing exercising their other limb. Wait. WHAT???? You heard me exercising the...
by Cassie Sandison | Oct 4, 2018 | Broken Bones, Physiotherapy, Sport Injuries
In case you’ve been under a rock, last weekend Cooper Cronk played in the NRL grandfinal with a knowingly broken shoulder blade – Amazing or just plain crazy? Let’s take a look. Firstly what is a shoulder blade fracture? The shoulder blade, or...
by Cassie Sandison | Sep 13, 2018 | Broken Bones, Fractures, Physiotherapy
If you play sports, particularly netball, basketball, football or another ball sport chances are you’ve asked this question. Jarred fingers are one of the most common sporting injuries we see and they can be super painful, swollen and make school, work and life...
by Cassie Sandison | Jul 16, 2018 | Broken Bones, Healing, Physiotherapy
From the moment a bone breaks or fractures the healing process begins. Bone healing can be broken down into 3 phases: The Inflammatory Phase, The Reparative Phase and The Remodelling Phase. When everything goes to plan most bones heal in 4-8weeks. Let’s take a...
by Cassie Sandison | May 4, 2018 | Broken Bones, Fractures, Physiotherapy
It’s one of the most common questions we get at our fracture clinic… “Do I have a fracture or a break?” So wanted to set the record straight… A fracture is a break and a break is a fracture. So what’s the difference? Many people...
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