The smaller joints of our hand and thumb are very mobile and struggle to manage the high forces applied through them during our gripping and pinching tasks over the course of a lifetime. Additionally, joint replacement surgery in the hand for severe osteoarthritis is generally less robust and successful, when compared to the bigger joints […]
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Today we are talking about Arthritis and in this post we aim to share a simple message and empower you with some resources. If you are living with one of the many types of arthritis, most commonly Osteoarthritis (OA) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and it is affecting your hands, there are MANY things you can
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Our wrist joint is a very complex with at least eight carpal bones that all move individually and together to allow us the freedom of movement we have. I sometimes make the analogy of the wrist joint as like the pivoting swivel head of the modern stick vacuum cleaner. It could also be equated to
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With the Aussie summer approaching, so too comes events like the Australian Open Tennis. Not sure about you, but I love getting down every year to see a match or two. Often when I’m watching I find myself putting my “therapist hat” on to analyse the biomechanics, and better understand how these athletes perform at
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