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Stress Advice

Don’t let stress ruin your day. Check out the advice below or read about our workplace presentations and webinars in the services section of this website.

We see injuries that are a result of stress everyday.

Here are some useful pointers to limit the negative impact of stress at work:

 

Physical Stress Skills

  • Keep your body moving regularly to loosen muscles and joints and use up the excess energy generated by the stress response.
  • Incorporate gentle breathing exercises whenever you can: see our exercises section and physio videos to learn more
  • When stressed and tense, shake your limbs to release tension.
  • Get to know some simple stretches and exercises to release tension in your stress areas: particularly of the jaw, neck and shoulders, arms, hands and lower back.
  • Practice humming loudly or silently to calm your mind and nervous system.
  • Get out in nature and seek open horizons, or remember to look up at the sky! This creates a sense of space inside when we feel stuck.

 

Mental Stress Skills

  • Develop positive thinking habits.
  • Exercise regularly.
  • Write down something that went well recently, or three things that you are grateful for.
  • Commit five random acts of kindness.
  • Appreciate the things you have control over and accept those you don’t.
  • Consciously wish the best for others.
  • Sleep (or just rest if sleeping is difficult) and eat well.

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    Common Injuries

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    Clicking or crunching in the back can be caused by a number of things.Most people fear that the clicking is caused by bone hitting bone. However, thankfully nowadays this is rare. If you have this, it is likely that for many years you have been suffering severe pain and movement...

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  • Facet Joint Problems

    Facet joint pain is normally localized: centrally over your spine or to one side. It may feel like a "catching pain" during certain movements like bending backwards, or turning. It is associated with poor posture, repetitive strain (e.g. horse riding) or injury (e.g. snowboarding falls)The common factors that contribute to...

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  • Patella Tendinopathy (pain front of knee below knee cap)

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  • Hip Clicking

    Clicking or crunching in the hip can be caused by a number of things. Most people fear that the clicking is caused by bone hitting bone. However, thankfully nowadays this is rare. If you have this, it is likely that for many years you have been suffering severe pain and...

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  • Stiff Thoracic Spine

    The thoracic spine – middle and upper part of the back - is the stiffest part of the spine due to the ribs attaching here, but it commonly becomes too stiff as a result of poor postures. Please click here to learn correct sitting posture. Thoracic spine stiffness puts more...

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  • Clicking Shoulder

    Clicking or crunching in the shoulder can be caused by a number of things. Most people fear that the clicking is caused by bone hitting bone. However, thankfully nowadays this is rare. If you have this, it is likely that for many years you have been suffering severe pain and...

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  • Foot and ankle exercises

    There are a variety of exercises that are great for your feet and ankles including: 1) Foot self-massage exercise 2) Eccentric calf strengthening 3) Foot muscles strengthening 4) Concentric calf strength and ankle instability exercise

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  • Train deep core muscles

    The following exercise should be performed under the guidance of your Physiotherapist or Osteopath to ensure you are doing it correctly and prevent aggravation of your condition. Please click here to learn how the back works before reading the following.

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  • Breathing and relaxation training

    Many spinal, hip and shoulder problems can be helped by retraining breathing habits and releasing the structures involved in breathing, such as the diaphragm and thoracic spine.

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  • Ankle stability, alignment and strength exercise

    Please click here to read how the foot and ankle works before reading the following. Make sure you have your pain diagnosed properly by a physio, osteo or sports doctor to ensure that this exercise is appropriate.

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  • Release the thoracic spine

  • Stretching

      A note on static stretching v dynamic stretching I bet you can't remember the last time you saw elite athletes doing a static stretches pitch-, track- or court side pre-performance. That is because research now shows that static stretching is not advisable before exercise. This is because it slows...

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