What is Open style choreography?
Written by Dan Jang: Physiotherapist and Dancer (yes I'm in these photos!) A lot of people might be unfamiliar with the term yet they are probably exposed to this dance style on the media and entertainment without really thinking about it. Open Style Choreography puts an emphasis on learning, practicing and executing pieces of choreography. Since 2020 there has been a lot of movement to coin Open Style Choreography instead of Urban as it is deemed a derogatory term. Open ...
A Physio’s tips for Bush Walking
Lucky for us living in Australia, there are endless bush walks for us to revel in. Recently, while on a bush walk to spot Koalas, I found myself feeling rather fatigued halfway through with a neck ache at the end of it. I’m here today to share with you how you can look after yourself while bush walking, and some tips on spotting animals. Preparing for a bush walk Make sure you get a good night’s sleep the day before ...
Pilates for Back Pain
Thank you to Jaclyn at MVMNT by Design for the photos in your space What is Pilates ? Pilates is an exercise approach that focuses on building mind-body awareness, strength, balance, control and flexibility. It is a great exercise method for back pain.Two broad forms of Pilates, include: · Mat – does not require much equipment, though may involve props such as a Pilates block, magic circle, TheraBand, swiss ball · Reformer – a bed-like platform with springs to add ...
Taking care of your body whilst gardening
We love getting to know what activities our clients enjoy getting up to, which is why we include asking about your interests & hobbies on our new client intake form! This helps us understand the activities you are wanting to engage in, and allows us to personalise and tailor your treatment plan to you. This blog will help you take care of your body whilst gardening. Many of our clients tend to list gardening as one of these activities – ...
Back Problems from Driving? Try These 3 Tips
Back pain is one of the most common reasons that people see a physiotherapist. An important activity that back pain often interferes with is driving. People may have ongoing back pain that flares up when they drive, or sometimes the only time they have back pain is while they are driving or immediately after. Physiotherapy can help acute back pain, and long-term, chronic back pain and help you manage any back problems from driving. Why Do People Have Back Problems ...
Self Management Physiotherapy
The goal of any Physiotherapy is ultimately empowerment and understanding, we want to provide you with the tools to be able to look after your body and to do it well. A one-size-fits-all blanket approach to self-care is not effective and in a lot of cases can do more harm than good. The human body is complex and every single one of us is different which mean our needs differ too. What one body likes, may exacerbate symptoms in someone ...
Physio & Yoga – with Cath (Physio and Yogi)
Yoga is often prescribed as something of a “cure all” by both medical practitioners and the general public. Whether you’re suffering from low back pain, are pregnant, have tight muscles, are stressed etc, the answer is often – go do yoga. Now don’t get me wrong, I love yoga and I think it has something to benefit nearly everyone. However, I believe that for the best outcome your yoga practice needs to be just that – yours. It needs to ...
HAES Physio – Health at Every Size Physiotherapy
Your health is not dependent on your weight. This may be surprising given the narrative spun from a host of sources including health professionals. Health at Every Size (HAES) is “an approach to public health that seeks to de-emphasise weight loss as a health goal, and reduce stigma towards people who are overweight or obese.” At Barefoot Physiotherapy, we place a lot of value in inclusion and take a non-biased approach to healthcare for our community with leading HAES physio ...
Mental Health First Aid course
Britt interviews Catherine At Barefoot we are committed to continued learning and upgrading our skills as both Physiotherapists and holistic health professionals. In order to keep our finger on the pulse of new research and treatments we undertake courses as a part of our professional development. Over the past year although the ability to attend face to face courses has been limited we have been completing some fantastic learning online. Catherine recently completed a Mental Health First Aid Course and ...
Activity pacing
Why is it important? When getting back into an activity after injury or a flare up we want to go slow and steady! What we often see is a “boom-bust” cycle, where a person completes an activity at a higher level than what their body is currently capable of and then has an extended period of rest to recover. This can be short term (i.e doing 15km run straight from 5km walks) or long term (e.g. starting gym classes 5 ...
Exercising over the Holidays with Britt
As the year that was 2020 draws to a close, a few of us are settling into holiday mode to welcome in the new year. Christmas and new year time means different things to all of us but in some cases we do get a little bit of extra time on our hands to start a new project, try a different exercise, or set some new habits. I’m sure there are quite a number of people who already know what ...
Accumulative Strain Flare ups
Years of full-time dance, hip surgery as a teenager and a semi-recent auto-immune diagnosis means that every so often my body goes a little bit haywire and throws out a variety of physical symptoms (a flare up) that impact my day to day activities. Yes, your physio can be sore too! The nature of our work means that we are physically and mentally active for the majority of the day. Which all adds to that accumulative strain we talk about ...
Muscle releases at home
At Barefoot Physiotherapy we love meeting new clients and helping kick start them of their health journey. For most clients it is important to be completing their own exercises and muscle releases between appointments to maintain improvements. In a session with a Barefoot Physio we will do a head-to-toe assessment to work out what muscles need to be released to help improve your movement quality and reduce muscle tension. Completing these muscle releases daily is ideal as this will help ...
What its like to have an injury
By Caitlin Sargent: As a physio I, along with many of my clients, expect I would rarely suffer injuries. As an elite athlete though it is kind of considered part of the deal. While it would be nice to always prevent all injuries, the nature of everyone’s lives is that at some point we are often going to accumulate too much strain and experience some degree of stiffness, pain or injury. It may be a slow gradual onset of tightness ...
Self care blog from Sage and Sound
Our friends over at Sage and Sound in Woolloongabba are a Psychology and Coaching clinic. They have shared with us some tips for self care. The five building blocks that underpin optimum mental health are to eat well, sleep enough, exercise, social interaction and do something just for you, on a daily basis. Most people have a good idea of what the first four tasks involve, even if they find them difficult to do consistently. But the fifth (known to psychologists ...
Lara – A Barefooter story of life, lungs and laughter!
As Donate Life week is at the end of this month we'd like to share a Barefooter story of Lara who is an organ recipient to raise awareness of the awesomeness of Organ Donation. We usually write a little intro but I think I'll leave it to Lara to introduce herself. Questions by Sal Lara! You superstar – could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your health history? How much time do you have? So, I was ...
Yoga Physio and Props – get the most out of your practice!
Written by Catherine - Yoga Physio As both a physio and a yoga teacher I can honestly say one of the best things you can do for your yoga practice is to use props! It’s a legitimate game changer. It’s common for teachers to make suggestions of using a block or bolster throughout a yoga class, but often it’s a bit more difficult to work out exactly how or why you should be using them, especially as we have more ...
Move Well and DIY
We love people to move well and feel great. As our communities adapt to a new way of life, which finds us all spending the majority of our time at home, a lot of us have decided it is the perfect time to pick up our old tools, bring out the vacuum cleaner or refine our green thumbs while re-landscaping our backyards. Whilst all these activities are great things to be doing to keep ourselves busy, they like any physical ...
Physical activity for Mental Health
The link between Physical and Mental Health The importance of mental wellbeing for overall physical health is very clear. In our increasingly busy and sometimes uncertain modern world, it is particularly important for us to give our mental health the care and attention it deserves. As physios, we have often seen the impact anxiety, depression and stress can have on the physical body (did you just feel yourself relax your shoulders and unclench your jaw as you read that??). What ...
Increasing running with Caitlin Sargent
More time for running With gyms closed and exercise options somewhat reduced compared to normal, a lot of people are turning to running for their endorphin dose. Running is a great form of exercise, with the added bonus of getting some vitamin D and some seeing some fresh scenery. However, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. A sudden rise in running volume can lead to injuries, so I’ve put together my suggestions for how ...
Hobbies and your body – Physio tips to take care of yourself
More time at home can mean more time for hobbies With many of us spending more time at home, we’re seeing people able to engage more with their hobbies (or even taking up new ones). It’s great to see creativity and passion being nourished like this. While the brain loves being engaged in an activity to the point of losing track of time, often the body feels otherwise. Awkward positions and long periods of sitting are just some of the ...
Shellie – recharging the Energizer bunny 🙂
Shellie is a superstar - an incredible human who brings laughter and fun to everywhere she is. We have always admired her and even more after watching her learn to take care of herself fully over the last year and becoming an advocate for true self care. Here's to recharging batteries! Questions by Caitlin You have travelled to some interesting and stunning places. Tell us more about some of your favourite destinations and where to next! Choosing my favourite destination ...
Return to walking program
So what is a return to walking program? We have great evidence to support gentle activity/movement being beneficial to our bodies. And the current recommendations are 30min x 5 days a week + 2 strength based sessions. So what if you can’t physically manage to walk 30min most days of the week? And you’d like to? Now if you can play a soccer game or run 10km this may not interest you… BUT you may know someone that you can ...
Getting into Exercise
I'm getting into exercise, but I haven’t exercised before. Where do I begin? Our Barefoot plan brings our clients to step 10 which is ‘Living your Barefoot Lifestyle’, this includes being able to start new activities and try new things! You can also bring this up with us at any other step in the plan. Exercise can be anything that you find enjoyable, that is the first step. Let’s find out what it is you like to do! That way, ...
Running Injury Prevention
Running Injury Prevention Hi everyone... Caitlin... As the weather cools off and ‘fun run’ season starts, we naturally see more people out hitting the roads and treadmill. Running is a great all round exercise. It helps us get outside and to clear your mind, however people often underestimate the load it places on the body. To avoid injury and keep the running joy, here are our top tips for running injury prevention: Take a gradual approach As with any new ...
My tips for healthier camping
Hi all – Catherine here! I’ve been lucky enough to spend a few weekends recently camping in some beautiful locations! While the weather has been hit and miss – I wanted to share a few tips I’ve picked up along the way. Get a good night’s sleep! Camping can conjure the image of roughing it on a super thin mat and a pillowcase stuffed with jackets and scarves. It’s so worth saving that extra car space so that you can ...
Barefooter Paul Newman explains his passion for flyball racing
Out of your long list of hobbies, the one I knew least about was flyball racing! Give us the run down of what that entails and how you’re involved. Travel has always been a topic of conversation during our sessions, where has been your favorite place in the last year? Where would you go next if you could fly off tomorrow? Another thing keeping you busy is your grandkids! How do you normally like to spend time with them? You ...
Posture in the Kitchen
Hi everyone! It's me, Caitlin. Those who know me well, know that I really enjoy cooking. As an athlete, nutrition is a key part of my training and preparation – ensuring that I recover well and fuel myself optimally. However, as a physio, I am even more concerned by posture in the kitchen and how to take care of your body while cooking! Here are some of my hot tips for looking after yourself in the kitchen Chopping/food prepping Often ...
We’re recruiting
Join our team Join our team and make a difference for yourself and your clients. Barefoot Physiotherapy is a small Private Clinic located very conveniently to Brisbane's major south-side traffic corridor. We have fantastic clients that live the barefoot lifestyle. You can read more about us here: Develop and manage your own clients, but enjoy shared targets along with a collaborative approach with our other Physiotherapists in relation to client care. Be part of a happy and trusted team of very ...
Introduction to HAES – Health At Every Size
Hi all, Sal here. For those of you that know the team at Barefoot you know one of our highest values is Inclusion. And in alignment with that is the belief that all bodies are deserving of equal professional care. We do not jump to conclusions or make any assumptions based on weight or body size. Recently we had an inservice with Non-Diet Dietitian Kate Gough (who spoke at our Summit last year) covering Health at Every Size (HAES) so ...
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