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Sleep serves a critical physiological function, and is arguably the single most important factor in: injury recovery, training adaptation, neuro-cognition and optimum performance.

There's a lot of misinformation about lower back pain in the community. Spectrum Healthcare debunks 5 common myths and what you should really know instead.

In the era of COVID-19, many of us are now working from home, with a large majority of us working from our laptop. Without our usual office set-ups, standing desks or activity based workspaces, we are more prone to all those annoying niggling aches and pains that can come as a result of spending long periods in sub-optimal positions.

Costochondritis is a benign form of chest pain, in which pain arises from inflammation of joints between the ribs and the breast bone at the front of the chest.

Peroneal tendinopathy is a condition which occurs in response to a sudden increase in load through the foot and ankle, often repetitive activities like running and dancing.

Having worked in both regional communities and metropolitan areas, I have learned that disc-related low back pain have a fearsome reputation amongst patient and practitioner alike. With many holding the strong assumption that a “slipped” disc is a life sentence of disability and low back pain.