Health Insights & Movement Education

As the weather cools down across Sydney, many people notice increased joint pain, stiffness, and reduced mobility. If you live with osteoarthritis, you may have experienced your knees, hips, back, or hands feeling more painful during colder or wet weather. But is weather really the cause? While weather does not directly damage joints, changes in temperature, air pressure, and activity levels can increase symptoms of osteoarthritis pain and stiffness. Cold weather may reduce c

Many of us have experienced it. We’re just starting to make progress and then the same frustrating niggle that happened last time starts to creep in. Many thoughts go through our head. “Should I slow down and lose the momentum I’ve worked hard to build”? “Maybe If I push through it will be different this time around?”. Inevitably if you’ve been in this situation before, you know how the story ends….. Usually in the practice on the table asking why me! We see this time and tim

Chiropractor and Exercise Scientist Daniel Camilleri (@APEXHM) explains why being able to listen to and understand our body is important in taking our results to the next level The human body is an incredible machine, continually adapting to daily stressors and the physical, neurological and emotional demands we place on ourselves. From birth, we’re a blank canvas. Ready to absorb and express beliefs, fears and behaviours taught to us throughout the stages of life. With this

When we think of exercise, the first place our mind might wander is working out in a gym, playing sport on the weekend or running for kilometres on end. These types of exercise are known as planned or structured exercise. While they are extremely important in maintaining health, incidental exercise also has an important role. WHAT IS INCIDENTAL EXERCISE? Basically, any sort of movement that is completed throughout the day that is unplanned or unstructured. It may only be a fe

It has definitely been a frustrating time for us all, after just completing our second lockdown in as many years. I’m sure there are lots of activities we are looking forward to returning to. One of these is returning to the gym and getting back to the healthy lifestyles we all once knew and loved. With the excitement of being able to return to the gym some people may fall into the trap of attempting to go straight back to where they were pre-lockdown. Unfortunately, that isn