by Joshua T. Wall | Better Bones and Balance, Exercise Physiology, Healthy Ageing, Musculoskeletal
The shopping bags feel heavier than they used to. Getting up out of a low chair takes a hand on the armrest. The jar lid that was never a problem now goes to someone else. None of these are dramatic on their own, and that is exactly the point: age-related muscle loss...
by Joshua T. Wall | Nervous System, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy, Shoulder
You reach up to hang the washing, paint a ceiling or fix your hair, and within a minute your arm feels heavy and your fingers start to tingle. You wake at night with a numb hand because you have slept with your arm above your head. The wrist has been tested for carpal...
by Joshua T. Wall | Lower Back, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy, Spine
You lower yourself into a chair and brace for it. You sit slightly to one side, lean forward over the desk, and dread the moment you have to stand up again, because that is when the sharp, deep ache at the very bottom of your spine bites hardest. Tailbone pain is one...
by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy, Sports Injuries
You have been on your knees all week, laying tiles, fitting a floor, weeding the garden or crawling after a toddler, and now there is a soft, squishy lump the size of an egg sitting right on top of your kneecap. It is not sore inside the knee, the knee still bends,...
by Joshua T. Wall | Foot, Foot & Ankle, Pain & Injury, Podiatry
You looked down at your child’s feet in the school-shoe shop and noticed there is no arch. Or a grandparent, a coach or a shoe fitter mentioned it, and now you are wondering whether your child needs orthotics, special shoes or a podiatrist. Here is the...
