by Max Kovler, PT Reg. (ON) for Mobile Physio Most people will attest to the fact that neck (or cervical) pain is a common but self-limiting problem. However, many individuals experience neck pain as a series of exacerbations and remissions, and for some neck pain can be a chronic problem. Most frequently it’s labelled by […]

Paula Meltzer was only 38 when out of nowhere everything she looked at was blurry. For the single mother, who had a lucrative career as a gemologist and spent hours examining valuable pieces of jewellery, it seemed as if – in a split second – her life changed. At first doctors thought Meltzer had a […]

Elderly men with high blood pressure can lower their risk of death with even moderate levels of fitness, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension. “This level of fitness is achievable by most elderly individuals engaging in a brisk walk of 20 to 40 minutes, most days of the week,” said […]

Women would benefit from being prescribed exercise as medicine, according to a QUT study that revealed moderate to high intensity activity is essential to reducing the risk of death in older women. Professor Debra Anderson, from QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, said that in addition to conventional treatments for physical and mental health, […]

Physical exercise, including treadmill, stretching and resistance exercises, appears to improve gait speed, muscle strength and fitness for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to a report of a randomized clinical trial published Online First by Archives of Neurology. Gait impairment is associated with functional decline in patients with PD and current therapies are inadequate […]