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3 Questions to Ask Yourself When Motivation Is Lost
Deciding to make a healthy lifestyle change is a great start - consistently taking action and prioritising the behaviours to achieve these changes is often where people fall short. We often see patients who have the greatest intentions for positive change but whose actions often don't consistently align with their short and long-term goals. If results begin to wain or plateau, or life throws an...
Is Overbreathing Negatively Affecting Your Health?
For most of us, breathing is very much a subconscious action that we on the most part pay very little attention to. During exercise, or when putting in a quick sprint to chase the morning bus or...
If you could reduce your risk of falls associated injuries, would you?
The statistics show that... - Every day, 133 older Queenslanders have a fall requiring medical attention, even though falls are mostly preventable, - 1 in 3 people aged 65+ fall once or more each...
Meet the Restart Team – What Drives Our Passion for What We Do
What drives our passion for what we do as Allied Health Professionals? I consider myself and my team to be very fortunate, in the way that we have found an occupation that not only fulfils us...
Cancer & Exercise: Is it Safe to Exercise During Chemotherapy??
Chances are somewhere along the way you have personally been touched by cancer. Either someone close to you or you yourself have heard the frightening words: “you have cancer”. Cancer does not...
The Fitbit: A Case Study
As a health professional, the emergence of the Fitbit over the last couple of years has been largely positive. Fitbit's modus operandi is to "motivate you to reach your health and fitness goals by...
3 Practical Tips to Overcome the Dangers of Chronic Stress in the 21st Century
It's Thursday afternoon. Paul glances up from his computer screen to watch the minute hand of the clock strike the hour, marking 9 hours since he first got to work and sat down in his office chair....
5 Tried and Tested Ways to Overcome Debilitating Knee Pain
Approximately 25% of adults suffer with frequent knee pain, pain that is severe enough to limit function, mobility, and negatively impact quality of life, whilst osteoarthritis is rated as the most...
Exercise Physiologist or Physio?
What's the difference between an Exercise Physiologist and a Physiotherapist? As Exercise Physiologists, we are frequently mistaken for Physiotherapists, and frequently asked how our expertise...
Value of Accredited Exercise Physiologists in Australia
The value of exercise in the prevention and management of a large range of chronic diseases is well evidenced in the literature. Accredited exercise physiologists are university qualified allied...