So Sore You Can’t Sit Down Two Days Later? DOMS Explained | Mount Gravatt

by Joshua T. Wall | Exercise Physiology, Pain & Injury, Running, Sports Medicine

You trained on Saturday. Sunday you felt a bit tight. Monday you needed the handrail to get down the stairs and lowering yourself onto a chair became a controlled fall. Why is day two worse than day one, and did you do something wrong? Welcome to DOMS, delayed onset...

Child Waking With Aching Legs? Growing Pains | Mount Gravatt

by Joshua T. Wall | Adolescent Health, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine

It is 9pm and your child is awake again, holding their legs and asking you to rub them. By breakfast they are sprinting around the kitchen as if nothing happened. If that pattern sounds familiar, you are likely looking at growing pains, and the pattern itself is the...

Pain on the Outside of Your Foot? Cuboid Syndrome | Mount Gravatt

by Joshua T. Wall | Foot, Musculoskeletal, Podiatry, Sports Medicine

Rolled your ankle months ago, and the ankle itself is fine, but the outside of your foot still aches every time you push off? Or you are a dancer or a runner with stubborn pain along the outer edge of your midfoot that nobody has been able to name? There is a commonly...

Pain Under the Ball of Your Foot? It May Be Your Plantar Plate

by Joshua T. Wall | Foot, Musculoskeletal, Podiatry, Sports Medicine

Pain right under the ball of your foot, usually beneath the second toe, that has not settled despite months of arch stretches and new shoes? It may not be plantar fasciitis at all. One of the most common causes of forefoot pain is an injury to the plantar plate, a...

Hip Clicks or Pops? When It Matters and When It Does Not

by Joshua T. Wall | Hip, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine

Does your hip click, clunk or pop when you lift your leg, get out of the car, or swing through a kick or a dance move? It is one of the most common things people quietly worry about, and one of the most common things they are told to ignore. The honest answer sits in...

Pain at the Front of Your Shoulder? What Actually Helps

by Joshua T. Wall | Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Shoulder, Sports Medicine

A nagging ache right at the front of your shoulder, worse when you reach overhead, lift a kettle, carry shopping or turn a screwdriver? That very specific spot at the front of the arm is often the long head of the biceps tendon, which runs up through a narrow groove...