Thursday, October 29, 2015

How Physiotherapists Help To Retrain Good Core Stability?

Core Stability is concerned with the ability of bodily region comprises Pelvis, Abdominal Wall, Lower Back and Diaphragm to stabilize the body during movement. Suppose when you move forward to pick up the cup, the core region of the body will get tensed and if you feel back pain, then it means you have poor core stability. In short Core Stability helps in body movement, to sit, to stand, to move and doing various tasks. 

A person cannot feel any pain if he or she has a good core stability. Understanding the relevant way of core stability is very mandatory because it helps you to move your body in relevant way and keep your body flexible and fit. Physiotherapists help to retrain good core stability by teaching and instructing the core stability exercises. 


How Physio Retrain Good Core Stability For Proper Body Movement?

Here is how Physio helps to retrain good core stability for an appropriate body movement:

  • Static Floor Exercise

Physio train through Static Floor Exercise to strengthen the body movement and enhance the ability of body to move, there are several practices in Static Floor Exercises which includes Plank, Bird-Dog and Superman to strengthen the body movement and enhance the core stability.

  • Dynamic Floor Exercise

Dynamic Floor Exercise is also a helpful practice which is instructed by Physio to understand the correct use of core muscles. This exercise includes Straight Leg Raise, Oblique Crunch, and Lying Windscreen Wipers etc. Dynamic Floor Exercise helps the core stability to strengthen and work perfectly.

  • Static Swiss Ball Exercise

Static Swiss Ball Exercise is another valuable exercise which Physiotherapists prefers to strengthen the core stability. There are several exercises such as Sit and Leg Lift, Supine Bridge and Plank which stabilize the body for movement easily. 

  • Dynamic Swiss Ball Exercise

Dynamic Swiss Ball Exercise consists of Back, Overhead Pulls, Squat Thrust, Side Crunch, Chop Rotation, Lift Rotation, Pulley Crunch, Rear Sling, and Front Sling and so on. It’s an effective core stability exercise through which a person can strengthen the body movement and enrich the ability of core stability.

Good Core Stability is too much important for a person to use core muscles in relevant and proper way. It helps a person to avoid low back pain and muscular pain and it strengthen the core region of the body to work more efficiently and perfectly. 

Physiotherapist helps to assume the proper use of core muscles so that it cannot generate any pain further and the body region get enable to stabilize the body during movement.

Monday, October 26, 2015

Postures Checklist for Office Workers to Prevent Occupational Injuries

The lives of professional people it too much busy and stressful. All office works give their best in the office hours to achieve the organizational as well as personal goals. Office workers stay still for maximum time in the seat and work continuously in front of the computer. On one side, this activity helps the workers to achieve the common goal but on the other side this activity generates occupational injury for them if proper posture is not assumed by the workers.



Occupational Injury is so common in workers or labor, workers who keeps working and remain static in a same posture and labor who lift the heavy goods on his shoulder. Occupational Injury generates more pain and becomes in the biggest obstacles to do anything. So, an office worker must be serious about this matter and should understand and assume the correct postures to prevent occupational injuries.

Postures Checklist for Office Workers to Prevent Injuries


Here are the accurate postures for office workers to prevent occupational injuries and pain arises because of it in future:

  • Sit Straight

The first posture need to be assumed is your sitting posture. You must be sitting tall and straight in front of the computer. Your back should be in support of the chair and your leg should be touching the floor, not in air.

  • Keyboard Adjustment

You must be sitting close to the keyboard and rest wrist. You can adjust the keyboard according to your comfort and sitting position, but it must be ensuring that your fingers are wrist is not hurting by using keyboard.

  • Screen Position

Your monitor screen should be in 90 degree to your eyes. Adjust your monitor in the way that it’s directly in the vision of your eyes and your eyes should be looking upward or downward for using the monitor.

  • Documents Holder

If your desk is filled with varieties of stuff, then use documents holder to put the documents in it. It should be in position equal to your eyes so that your eyes will not feel stress in looking the documents again and again.

  • Hand Exercise

During the working hours, it’s not mandatory that you have to keep sitting like a robot. Try to do hand exercise among the working hours. Move your hands, stretching the fingers and do several hand exercise to give flexibility to your hands and prevent from injury or pain.

  • Take Break And Rest Up

Working continuously is so dangerous for your body; it generates tension in muscles and provides occupational injury. Among the working hours, take break and rest up, do shoulder exercises, stretch your legs and feet, and so little warm-up to reduce the tension, boost up and generate energy.

Occupational Injuries is so worse and generates pain that a person can’t afford. So you need to do some activities for the occupational injury prevention. Above are the postures an office workers must be follow to get rid of occupational injury and prevent the injury. 

Well, there are several occupational injury exercises and occupational injury treatment in Physiotherapy which helps to relieve the injury.

Monday, October 19, 2015

How to Get Relief from Knee Injury?

Knee Injury is so common type of injury which usually happens to the sportsperson, athletes and working people who generally puts more pressure on knees. Knee Injury generates lots of pain and unable a person to stand properly. A person gets injury in the muscle of knees which is a painful thing. 

You look for various knee injury treatment and spend lots of money and still can’t get a satisfactory result and in that case, a physiotherapists works for you.

Knee Injury can be treated with the help of knee injury exercises under the guidance of physiotherapists. It can be treated more effectively with the help of certain practices guided and help by physiotherapists

Methods to Heal Knee Injury


Here are knee injury exercises a physiotherapist suggests to provide relief from knee injury and curing it:

Knee Massage



Knee Massage is a proper therapy to heal knee pain. It helps to fix the broken bones and deliver a valid relief to it. Physiotherapist gives knee massage to the person to relieve the knee injury to the best. A physiotherapist uses his/her finger and pressure of hands on knee and provides massage. It gives a relief to the person suffering from knee pain and fixes the injury through muscular pressure on it.

Knee Mobilization



Knee Mobilization is another physical therapy a Physio provides to the person to heal the knee injury. In the process, a Physio handles the knee move up and down pointing his/her finger in sensitive point where the injury is. It provides a marvelous relief to the person and helps them to relieve the knee pain. This practice helps a person to get rid of knee injury and knee pain to the best.

Knee Taping



In this modern world, there are various kinds of treatments to heal the knee injury in which knee taping is more advanced and effective. In this treatment, a Physio covers the knee using tap. This helps to heal knee injuries, allow an earlier return to sport reduces the injury aggravation and prevent the knee injuries. Knee Taping is a fabulous way to treat the knee injury.

Knee Injury happens when the muscles in knees gets huge stress and pressure, also when bone is broken and many more. But healing knee injury is not so complicated when you’re under the guidance of physiotherapists. A Physiotherapist helps to heal the knee injury with various techniques given above. You can join the physiotherapy centre to heal the knee injury.