Life Care
How to get moving!
You have particular wellbeing needs at each stage of your life. The Beachside Osteo team will be at your side for the entire journey, working in partnership with you and your family to keep you moving with confidence. Talk to us about your life care needs today.
Explore how to get a moving below.
Posture
‘Bad Posture’ does not necessarily dictate whether you will experience pain or injury. However, poor mobility, stability, and function can be an issue. What we would consider poor posture can be perfectly fine as long has mobility, stability and function are maintained to perform necessary activities.
Core Stability
Core stability exercise has been a bit of a buzzword in the health and fitness industries for over a decade, and often marketed as the key to enhancing sports performance, along with preventing and rehabilitating injuries (particularly with low back pain).
Research in the 1990’s found that there was a delay in activation or firing of certain muscles in people with back pain. The research concluded that these muscles were responsible for stabilising the spine people with back pain would benefit from rehabilitation.
Further research over the past decade has concluded that core exercises will increase strength and stamina in these muscles. However, this is not transferable to real life sports or strength in daily activities.
In these areas, more functional training is required. Read more about correct core stability training.
Pregnancy
The body is amazing. At no one time is the body more amazing than the changes that happen during pregnancy. Two of the biggest influences during pregnancy are:
- hormonal changes
- the increases in size and weight and the impact on the body biomechanics
Osteopathy can readily assist with these following common conditions:
- Low back pain
- Neck and shoulder pain
- Upper back and rib pain
- Carpal tunnel
During pregnancy, a Beachside osteopath will do a thorough individual assessment. We will work with you to reduce pain and keep you active. Click to read more about common pregnancy complaints.
Pregnancy and Exercise
Pregnant women today report being given conflicting advice about exercising from various sources such as social media networks and family members.The current focus of research and guidelines are on the benefits of exercise during pregnancy. Read more about this research – click here.