Friday, September 18, 2015

How to Relieve Neck Pain and Headache with Physiotherapy?

Neck Pain is a pain occurs in the neck of the body which is so common and caused by several conditions. It’s caused by some spinal problems and also because of muscular tightness and pinching of nerves etc. Neck Pain hurts a lot when it goes worse and sometimes it jam the upper part including neck and upper back and a person feels difficulty in the movement. Well, people suffering from neck pain also experience headache. Headache is caused by some neck conditions such as muscle tightness and tension, mobility loss and poor posture.

A person wants immediate relief from neck pain and headache because of its pain. Neck Pain can be happen to anyone of any age. The tension in muscles in neck due to unsystematic sleeping position, pliability in neck and many more conditions cause neck pain and headache. Because neck pain irritates the most and also the nerves are connected with each other, immediate neck pain treatment becomes the priority to protect the pain to transfer into other part of the body. 

Heal Neck Pain and Headache from Physical Therapy

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To relieve neck pain headache, the most easy and influential treatment is physical therapy or physiotherapy. Physiotherapy helps to heal the problem of neck pain and headache rapidly and provide relief to a person from neck pain and headache exercises.

Here is how physiotherapy relieves neck pain and headache:

  • Deep Tissue Massage


Deep Tissue Massage deals with the muscle tension in neck which is caused by stress in day-to-day activities. In this massage, physiotherapists put some direct pressure on the painful area to release the tension in soft tissues including muscles, tendons and ligaments. It’s an influential physical therapy to relieve the neck pack and headache.

  • Stretching


Stretching is a massage therapy in physiotherapy in which a physiotherapist stretches the spine. This helps to reduce the feeling of pain and a person can able to move and work. This can be done through hands-on exercise or by using the traction devices. It’s so much helpful to heal the headache and neck pain.

  • Heating And Cooling Therapy


This is a physiotherapy exercise in which a physiotherapist apply heating pad to put some warm feeling in stiff muscles. It helps to increase the flow of blood and to generate more blood and oxygen. After that the physiotherapist put cold pad on the same area to reduce the inflammation and provide some relief from neck pain.

  • Tailored Exercise


Tailored Exercise consists of several exercise of neck which helps the neck in movement. In this exercise, a physiotherapist helps a person to do several activities like moving the neck. It makes the muscles flexible and to put some pressure on the painful nerve and relieve it to provide a rapid relief to a person.

Neck Pain and Headache is not a complicated problem which takes lots to time to cure. A person can easily heal the neck pain and headache which arrives due to the neck pain. 

With the help of physiotherapy exercises and workout, a person can easily heal and relieve neck pain, headache and feel better than before.

You can find the best way to relieve your neck pain and headache @ http://excelphysio.com.au/services/neck-pain-headache-shoulder-pain/

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

What is Sciatica and How Sciatica Exercises is Helpful for it?

Sciatica is a physical condition in which a person feels pain in one part of the lower back including back, hip and leg’s outer side. It’s not exactly a disease but a symptom or a body trouble. The pain of one part transforms into the pain in both parts and result in weakness in several parts of foot and leg.

There can be several causes of sciatica in which spinal nerve root compression is common. However, it can occur because of spinal disc herniation, stenosis, piriformis syndrome or pregnancy and other. Well, there are various sciatica treatments to cure sciatica in which some becomes successful to provide relief and some fails. But it’s identified that sciatica exercise is the best way to deal with sciatica and to deliver relief from it.

Sciatica Exercises for the Treatment of Sciatica

Here is how sciatica exercises are helpful to treat sciatica:

  • Strengthening Exercise


This exercise includes some practices in which a person have to lie down on stomach and legs and arms stretched out. One arm and opposite leg raise together and hold for seconds and then the same is done with another side. It helps to strengthen the supporting muscles, spinal column, tendons and ligaments which also help to provide relief to stomach and hip muscles.

  • Stretching Exercise


This exercise is an ideal for sciatic pain relief. It’s made to target the muscles causing pain and to provide relief to it. In this exercise a person have to arch the back and bend forward for touching the toes and also lying on back and pulling knees towards the chest gradually. It provides relief from sciatica and heals this body trouble in efficient and peaceful manner. 

  • Aerobic Exercise


Aerobic Exercise is another way to heal sciatica with patience. This exercise is consists of following practices:

  • Walking
  • Cycling
  • Swimming
  • Running
  • Jogging


Besides Sciatica, Aerobic Exercise also heals varieties of diseases related to heart and other. Aerobic helps to exchange the fluids and nutrients which create a healing environment. This exercise helps to reduce the sciatica pain and provide relief to it.

Sciatica Exercises are very beneficial to treat sciatica and pain arises in it. The above are effective exercises which help sciatica to get recovered and these are the exercises which are helpful to heal sciatica in a peaceful manner. 

If you’re suffering from Sciatica and want to obtain relief from it, then it will be good to join Excel Physiotherapy and Wellness for Sciatica exercises @ Mascot, Alexandria, Botany and Beaconsfield, Tempe and Rosebery areas. It will provide you a perfect assistance and help you to heal sciatica with exercises.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

How Physiotherapy Is Useful For Sports Injury Rehabilitation?

Sports are kind of passion for many people living around the world. Sports have huge excitement and fun and keep athletes engaged with it to earn a name in it. There are various sports all over the world which includes football, volleyball, tennis; martial arts etc. and people are passionate about such sport which is a reason to live for some people. 

Sports give a distinct feeling to the athletes which they enjoy while playing. Besides this, sports keep the human healthy and fit. But sports is risky and dangerous too, in which a player have to feel pain, face injury and have to see that injury going worse.

It’s true that sports are passion and crucial part of life but painless and strain free body is also important to achieve this passion and to win it. Sportsmen can get a little or even critically injured while playing or practicing and he/she feels too much pain which becomes an obstacles to win the game. 

Role of Physiotherapy in Sports Injury Treatment

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In that case, sports injury treatment like physiotherapy remains the most effective and comfy option for athletes to obtain relief from injury and pain happening because of it. 

Here is how physical therapy helps to treat sports injury:

Cardiovascular Fitness Program


In the physiotherapy practice, Cardiovascular Fitness Program helps to treat the sports injury and to provide relief to sportsperson. In the process of Cardiovascular Fitness Program, the specialists provide assistance to the person including workout and exercise for sports injury treatment.

In this process, varieties of Cardiovascular Fitness exercises given to the injured athletes which helps to treat the injury and helps sportsmen to go back to the play ground. This is a technique which helps to enhance the ability of lungs and heart to supply oxygen to the muscle tissues so that the muscle can use that oxygen to produce energy for body movement. 

There are various sports injury techniques and activities in Cardiovascular Fitness Program in which major are:


  • Running
  • Dance
  • Skipping
  • Cycling
  • Jogging
  • Rowing
  • Netball
  • Stair Climbing


Musculoskeletal Strength Programs


The sports injury is connected with the muscular pain and strain and to treat it, physiotherapy deal with the same i.e. muscles. In this process of treating sports injury workout, the specialist trains the athletes to do several activities so that the muscles become capable to heal the pain and provide relief from injury. 

It includes several muscle injury exercises such as squat to heal buttocks and thigs, one-arm row to heal upper & middle back and shoulders, push-up to heal chest, shoulders and arms, shoulder press to heal arms and shoulders and so on.

Sports Injury treatment is not a complicated process when it’s handle through the physiotherapy specialists. It can be treating through several kinds of techniques in which above are common. If you’re suffering from sports injury and want to treat it effectively then Excel Physiotherapy and Wellness will be the best spot for you. 

It provides sports injury treatment such as ankle sprains, muscle strains, swimmer’s shoulder, and tennis elbow in efficient manner. It serves in several regions such as Mascot, Botany, Alexandria, Beaconsfield, Tempe and Rosebery.

Monday, September 7, 2015

What Is Pilates And How It Works?

Pilates is a physical fitness exercise which was initiated by the gymnast, boxer and a circus performer Joseph Pilates. Joseph has given his surname to this physical exercise ‘Pilates’ which is practicing in worldwide. Pilates has several health benefits and it has a great contribution over the fitness of a person. Different kinds of exercise are involved in Pilates to treat different illness and stress and also for well-being.


Pilates is designed for the improvement of flexibility, core stability and strength. Many people are availing the goodness of Pilates around the world because it’s giving an easiest and result oriented way to stay fit and healthy. And one wonderful thing about Pilates is it keep maintain your health if you do it on the regular basis.


Benefits of Pilates for Strengthening the Body

The health benefits of Pilates


Now the thing is how Pilates works and what are its benefits? Well here we have given below:


  • Core Stability



Core Stability is concerned with the improvement of small muscles that give supports to the joints with an aim to offer good posture and to prevent the injury and pain. Pilates has a great impact over improving the muscles and to provide relief to a person from the pain and injury. It’s useful for the athletes and gymnastics to treat their injury, stress, and pain and make them able to cure their problem in an efficient way.


  • Improve Concentration and Mental/Physical Stamina



Concentration and Mental, as well as Physical Stamina, are essential to make anything possible. Without a proper concentration and stamina, a person cannot work and obtain the prosperous result. Well, Pilates helps to obtain this all. With the help of Pilates workout and exercises, people become able to concentrate his/her mind and to strengthen his/her physical as well as mental stamina and capabilities.


  • Activeness and Energy



Pilates involves some practices which help a person to control breathe, fluid movements and this gives a person a sense of activeness and energy. It’s useful for a pregnant woman to stay fit and to strengthen the health of her child inside her womb. It also helps her to gain some energy to be use at a time of delivery.


  • Stiffness and Soreness



Athletes get highly suffered from stiffness and soreness after playing or practicing. This brings an obstacle to them to perform well in the field. But Pilates is a tool which can cure and treat it effectively. After having various Pilates exercise, a person feels better and relief from the soreness and stiffness.


  • Recovery from Surgery



After surgery, a patient needs to be very aware of his/her body and its movements. Especially at the surgical part of a body, patients get suggested to put less stress on it. But with the help of Pilates workout and exercises, patients get recovered from the surgery and can move the surgical part easily. This brings stamina to a patient as he/she get recovered fast and place his/her body back to the normal.


  • Strengthen Lung Capacity



Through a deep breathing practices as a part of Pilates, a person can able to improve the function of his/her lung and it also increase the capacity of lung which is a great thing for a good health. By doing the deep breathing exercise in Pilates, people make his/her lung perform well.


Pilates and Yoga are correlated with each other in some manner, but there is some major difference in both. Pilates and Yoga both improves the postural and muscular strength but Pilates deals with the improvement of flexibility, balance, whereas Yoga deal involves the body and mind and includes exercise, meditation and breathing.


Pilates is the best way to make the body fit and to increase its capability. It serves several health benefits and that is the reason why people are assuming it gradually. 


For well-being and a fitness of health, Pilates will be useful for you and work effectively. 


You can practice the Pilates in a relevant way and can obtain its health benefits from Excel Physiotherapy and Wellness situated in Mascot, also offering pilates exercise in Alexandria, Rosebery, Beaconsfield, Botany areas.
You can visit here to join the classes on prescribed schedule: http://excelphysio.com.au/services/pilates/

Thursday, September 3, 2015

What Is Yoga And Its Health Benefits?

Yoga is originated in India, which is a mental, physical and spiritual practice to calm the human mind, relax the body, maintain peace, and sharpens the concentration and much more. Yoga is spreading around the world means it’s been assumed by not only the people of India but people living around the world. Yoga is considered as a way of life. It’s not only an activity but some people also take it as worshiping god.

Yoga helps to strengthen the human body and mind and it also helps to sharpen the concentration to do several works in an efficient manner. Like exercise and workout, Yoga is proven beneficial activity for a good health and that’s the reason why people like moving towards it. Usually, people used to do it on morning to start a refreshing day. To provide a better yoga technique, several yoga classes are here to teach the correct way of Yoga.

Do You Want To Live Fit And Longer? Then Do Yoga!


Yoga has several health benefits in which major are given below:

Reduce Stress

Reduce Stress

The human becomes a victim of stress due to his/her regular commitments and activities. Sometimes he/she forget to give enough time to take a rest and relax and it causes stress in human. This stress brings health issues and problems and sometimes it ruins a life of a human being. But Yoga helps to reduce the stress. By doing Yoga, people feel stress-free and relaxed. It gives relaxation to the mind which is an origin to generate stress.

Maintain Fitness

Maintain Fitness

For a better health, people need to be fit and fine physically and mentally. But due to irregularity in the rest, eating food etc. the body of a human becomes unfit which affect very badly to health. Well, Yoga helps a person to stay fit and energizing. With the help of several yoga asanas (techniques), an unfit person can transform into the fit and a fit person remains fit for the lifetime.

Cure Diseases

Cure Diseases

It’s proved that Yoga helps to cure and treat several kinds of acute or chronic diseases such as heart disease, lung disease and many more and also helps a patient to cure his/her disease from which he/she was suffering from long time. Yoga cures diseases because the several techniques of Yoga strengthen every part of the body of a human and treat the disease effectively. Also, people who practice Yoga every day remain healthy and fit and free from diseases.

Strengthen Concentration

Strengthen Concentration

Concentration is too much essential to do daily activities with the quality and to obtain a prosperous result. But because of several circumstances a person lost his/her concentration power and can’t able to give his/her best in any task. But with the help of meditation as a part of Yoga a person able to focus his mind and strengthen the concentration. 

Besides this, Yoga helps to cure the breathing problems and it trains the correct way of breathing. Yoga brings a positive mentality in human mind what is essential to living and also it changes the negative perception into positive. It brings happiness and prosperity in life and gives a mind blowing confidence to the human being.

Yoga is the crucial part of life which should be included in your schedule to stay fit and healthy. There are several benefits of Yoga in which some major are discussed above. Well, to obtain a correct technique of Yoga and to do it in a right way, Yoga classes will be the best idea to join. Excel Physiotherapy and Wellness based in Mascot is a nice platform to practice Yoga and to do it in a relevant way. You can avail the information to join Yoga classes from here: http://excelphysio.com.au/services/yoga/