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SUFFERING constant BACK PAIN? Want to ENJOY LIFE again?
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“ I’ d given up really- I’ d tried so many things. In just a couple of sessions the pain and muscle spasms had gone. I’ d recommend your work to anyone.” Craig Gibson, Richmond
Remedial Muscle Elongation Therapy targets the cause of chronic back pain and inflammation to really eliminate them. This technique works well for shoulders and knees too!
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Mouthguard warning for junior footy and rugby seasons
With 100,000 sportrelated concussions occurring in Australia each year, Aussie parents and local athletes are being urged to be‘ mouthguard safe’ ahead of the 2025 junior and amateur AFL and rugby seasons to give themselves the best chance of avoiding serious head or oral injuries.
The warning comes amidst research suggesting there is one concussion every 5.7 games in youth Rugby League. While separate studies from the Australian Dental Association suggest sports-related injuries account for nearly 40 per cent of dental injuries, yet only 36 per cent of Australians wear a mouthguard when playing contact sport.
Dr Cathryn Madden, Head Dentist at Bupa Dental said a properly fitted mouthguard is a players’ best defence against serious sports injuries like broken jaws, fractured teeth and even lacerated tongues which can be involuntarily bitten during an unexpected hit.
“ Whilst less expensive over-the-counter boil and bite mouthguards are
certainly better than zero protection, they run a significantly higher risk of being dislodged or not protecting all essential areas which increases the risk of sustaining a serious injury for players.
“ A custom-made mouthguard will be designed to fit a player’ s individual mouth shape and dimensions providing a player with the protection they need on game day or training and a parent with valuable peace of mind when watching from the sidelines,” Cathryn said.
“ Once you have your mouthguard sorted, you can focus more on enjoying the game and all the physical and mental benefits that come with being involved in community sport.
“ All it takes is a short visit to your friendly local dental clinic to get a scan or impression of your teeth and choose your favourite team colours for the mouthguard before a subsequent visit to ensure the mouthguard fits firmly and comfortably,” Cathryn said.
HEALTH & WELLBEING
Bending forward and twisting while lifting – it’ s like back
with Andreas Klein
I often see back pain patients with herniates intervertebral discs.
Scientists have measured lumbar disc compressive strength. Results show that human lumbar discs can handle between 0.6- 15.6kN( kilo newtons) of compressive force before rupturing. Twenty year old lumbar discs can resist on average: 1. 10.43 kN,( men) 2. 7.65 kN( women)
Disc strength decreases by about: 1. 1 kN every 10 years for men, 2. 0.7kN every 10 years for women. 1 kN = 100kg so lumbar discs can handle huge weights:
• 1 ton( 20yo men)
• ¾ ton( 20yo women)
• 600 kg( 60yo men)
• 350 kg( 60 women)
So lumbar discs are extremely resistant to compression. Studies show when the spine is compressed while in a neutral position( standing straight upright), adjacent vertebral bodies( the bones) will break before discs give way. So how could anyone ever get a herniated disc? The key understanding is that simple compressive load is not enough. The spine must be under compression, but also flexed, rotated or both for‘ disc herniation and sequestration’ to occur. Experiments show that: Bending forward-‘ increasing disc flexion angle from 7 ° to 10 ° results in significantly increased lumbar disc“ radial annular-endplate tears”, with discs under load. The tears occur in exactly where 50 % of disc herniations are seen clinically in patients.
Keping back-flexion at 7 ° and adding just 2 ° of axial rotation( turning vertebra left or right by 2 °), markedly reduces the compressive load required to produce
kryptonite
annular disc tears. So that’ s why manual handling techniques are so important. When a person lifts heavy objects while the spine is in a stable( roughly straight up & down position) the average person could not lift something heavy enough to cause a disc bulge or rupture.
However, a person lifting while bending forward and twisting to the left or right can easily put the vertebral discs into a position where the changed forces make disc rupture increasingly likely. It’ s why heavy-weight“ dead lifts” are so risky, and why, certain exercises and stretches are not recommended for patients recovering from a disc injury.
If you have a back injury and want to understand how best to recover, why not give Andreas a call at the clinic on 0418 166 269.
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