Movehappy in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | Gym/Physical fitness centre

Movehappy

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6231 1155

Address: 2/43 Comrie Street, Waniassa ACT 2903 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: http://movehappy.com.au

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25.01.2022 Got knee osteoarthritis? Watch this

25.01.2022 In musculoskeletal physio, things are not always what they first seem

25.01.2022 Haylee lifting and shifting - getting it done

24.01.2022 Happy Mother’s Day to the Movehappy family and friends.

21.01.2022 Big news at Movehappy this week!!! We now have streamlined online bookings through Nookal! Link in bio or follow this address to book online with our Exercise Physiologist, Physiotherapists or Osteopaths!!!... https://tinyurl.com/y2xpo4dc #canberraphysiotherapy

20.01.2022 One of the best things about my job is the amazing people that I get to meet. Stephanie McClory is a patient of mine, as well as a physiotherapist in her own right. She did a placement with me so I’m glad to say I was a mentor to her professionally. As for her artistic skill shown in this video however, she blows me to pieces. ... THIS IS INCREDIBLE!! Stephanie will be running an exhibition STARTING THIS WEEKEND for those who would like to see more of her work https://youtu.be/6-iu3GL_Su4

20.01.2022 It’s just a jump to the left...... and a step the the riggghhhht! Who would have thought that you could learn so much from Rocky Horror‘s song the time warp?!! Apart from being a great party song, it has a golden kernel of advice; never forget to train lateral movements in addition to straight line movements. ... I use this glut exercise to work on hip abductor strength to improve my single leg standing strength. It is very important that anyone that does any single leg loading maintains this strength to prevent lateral hip pain, knee pain and back pain. Given that all of us walk, which involves single leg support, that is all of us. Movehappy

18.01.2022 Congratulations to our Move Happy Member of the Month Louise Jansen! Louise has been working with Hannah and Tom to overcome a knee injury that prevented her from running.... She has been an absolute star with her rehab and took on needles and her homework like a champ. Her hard work and exercises paid off last weekend during the mothers day classic when she shaved 10mins of her best 10km time for a sub-1hour finish! Congratulations Louise and keep up the great work!!!

18.01.2022 This took numerous takes and this was the best one we had in the end...... Bring on the post about growing pains...

18.01.2022 Baby cows on Father’s Day

17.01.2022 So you're still stuck at home, the gyms are closed and you're finding it tough to continue with your push ups because they're getting too easy. Don't fret, the versatile push up is still a winner!! With hands and feet on the ground, a push constitutes about 65% of your body weight. If you're just getting started, try placing your hands on a box or even your kitchen bench to reduce the load of a push up. If you're push ups are getting far too easy, try elevating your FEET! T...his can increase the load up to 75% of your body weight on a 60cm box. If you would like a tailored exercise program based on your goals and what you want to achieve, get in touch with us and book in a session with our Exercise Physiologist Tom!

17.01.2022 today’s post is about .... flossing....

17.01.2022 Welcome to Exercise Right week 2020!!! This years theme is "Movement is Medicine", the goal is to highlight how important exercise is to Australians for our physical and mental health. We know being physically active reduces the risk of heart disease, diabetes, chronic mental illness and ultimately helps you lead a happier and healthier life!... This week, challenge yourself by moving for AT LEAST 30 minutes per day by walking, riding or just any exercise at all! Download the Exercise Right activity tracker below and track how you go!

16.01.2022 Gluts and abs and gluts and abs and gluts and abs........look ma I’m beat boxing! This is a quick video that explains why gluts and abs are your way out of back and sciatic pain. I’ll put up the program over the coming days.

16.01.2022 Sunday is gym day!! Use it or lose it is today’s post, but more in relation to range of motion than muscle mass. Be sure to include this in today’s training session and going forward. ... Your lumbar spine and hips will thank you! Movehappy!

14.01.2022 Just hanging at Movehappy,,,,,,

14.01.2022 From flossing to cracking (also known as manipulation.....)

13.01.2022 Weekend sport looks like its about to come back, and with that will be injuries. I often hear I went to the hospital after I sprained my ankle. They did an X-ray and told me that it was not broken. It’s just soft tissue damage. The hospitals do a great job, but assessing soft tissue injuries is not really their speciality. Telling someone that they just have a soft tissue injury is also not overly helpful. You need to know what tissue, and what grade or severity. ... This is important as some things can heal IF you brace them correctly and soon enough. Some, though there is no break, still need surgery before sport can be resumed; even when the pain is gone. The reason for this is structural instability. Soft tissue injuries to joints usually involve damage to the ligaments that hold bones together and stop them moving too far. In the case of a shoulder dislocation for example, once it is put back in may have no associated fracture. Often the pain will be gone in one to two weeks. If that person is under the age of 30, they have a 95% chance that they will dislocate again. They need surgery; bracing, rehab and taping are unlikely to be enough. In the case of an ankle however, if the damage is isolated to one of the components of the lateral ligament as in this video, if we brace it early, structural stability can be completely restored. No surgery necessary. So when you or your child sprain please something don’t confuse that with meaning that no real damage occurred. Make sure that you get it assessed and graded to work out whether you need bracing, rehab or surgery. And then you can Movehappy!

13.01.2022 How did you go at Movehappy? I had a ball!! Many who have visited Movehappy have left with a trigger ball to release tight muscles. ... These techniques work by putting a local stretch on the muscle tissue that results in a local relaxation. This in turn allows blood into what is an otherwise hypoxic area, reducing pain. I have attached one example that you can do to address that pesky tightness that will have built up around your shoulder blade from working on your laptop and kitchen bench. Happy Sunday Movehappy. Dave

13.01.2022 Abdominals; the sequel. Like Aliens, this is just as good as the first installment!

13.01.2022 Here’s your Tuesday Movehappy movement motivation. You all know that I love manual therapy but I do also strongly believe in rehab; I just think that they both need to coexist to create the best outcome. As I’ve become older, stiffer, and a bit more broken, the rehab part of my sessions has become longer and longer. ... I now see my old favorite parts of the program (the real stuff of bench, dead, and squat) as the reward for doing the rehab. This is a massive difference to when I was in my 20s and viewed such things as wasted work out time. So now, in a 90 minute session there is at least 45 mins of rehab (hip and shoulder rehab, and LOTS of ab work). The rewards though are worth it. This is me equalling my PB for 10 reps on a squat (130kg); something that I have not hit for four years. It’s not earth shattering stuff but at 46 it’s nice to hit a weight that you used to be able to do before your body went psycho on you; a thing that most of my # wrong side of 40 clients can attest to. So the moral of the story is, DO YOUR REHAB. Please! To help this goal we now also utilize the App PhysiApp (told you I was getting IT savvy). This allows us to upload your personalized rehab exercise videos for you (you have seen a few in posts already). The feedback from clients is that this does help them to do their rehab a lot. So if it’s time to update your rehab or you have an injury holding you back; come and see us so you can get back to Moving happy!!

12.01.2022 The final abdominal chapter..... return of rectus abdominus!!!

12.01.2022 Can’t get a head with your hamstring flexibility. Bernie has the answer

10.01.2022 ***KNEE HEALTH*** . From a 2010 study regarding knee functionality after ACLR (anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction) showing postoperative patients reported significant improvement in knee function after completing a 5- week strengthening program with the following exercises. The program is also fantastic for those who are looking to improve their lower limb strength. . Warm up with a 10 minute cycle, treadmill or elliptical trainer.... SL Squat - 3x8 ea Step up - 2x10 ea BOSU squat - 2x20 SL leg press - 3x6-8 ea SL knee extension -3x6-8 ea SL fitball hamstring curls - 3x6 ea Single leg hop onto step - 1x15ea Sideways SL hop - 3x15 (stop after 3 hops - repeat 5 times) Skating - 2x20 . Try the program, let us know how you go! If you’re looking to improve the way you move and Movehappy call us on 6231 1155 or book online using the link in bio! ... Source: Eitzen, I., Moksnes, H., Snyder-Mackler, L., & Risberg, M. A. (2010). A progressive 5-week exercise therapy program leads to significant improvement in knee function early after anterior cruciate ligament injury. The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy, 40(11), 705721. https://doi.org/10.2519/jospt.2010.3345 See more

10.01.2022 Congratulations to our Move Happy Member of the Month Jesse Prince! Jesse came to MH struggling with balance, co-ordination and strength due to some complications as a baby. Initially she was barely able to balance on one foot or catch a ball. Jesse has been working hard with Hannah in a combo of strength/balance/proprioception in clinic and hydrotherapy at the pool.... Now look at her go!! We can't wait to see what she achieves next!

10.01.2022 You’ve heard the saying you need to learn to stand on your own two feet!. Well, how about standing on one a time? Mistakenly most of us don’t pay much thought to the importance of this basic skill. ... We mistakenly assume that if we can walk, which involves short term single leg stance, then we’re ok. A weakness of the lateral hip, highlighted when you try to stand and squat on one leg, is a driver of many pathologies including but not limited to trochanteroc bursitis, gluteal tendonopathy and tears, patellofemoral knee pain, and ACL tears. And weakness in this lateral muscular sling is VERY common. Take the challenge and try and add some single leg work into your program. I do it as a recovery exercise in between work sets. (Though it’s really hard enough to be a work set on its own!) Movehappy! Squat on one leg!

09.01.2022 Weekend at Bergy’s

09.01.2022 What is a snag belt?!!

08.01.2022 A lot of people get confused about what different imaging tells us in the works of physiotherapy. As a general rule we use plain x rays, ultrasounds, or MRI. CT scans and bone scans are also available, however these expose the patient to lots of radiation, so we rely on them less. As a general rule, x rays are quick ways to exclude bony damage. They don’t tell us anything about soft tissues such as muscle, ligament or tendon. They are also limited in that more than one direc...tional view (eg AP and lateral) is needed to see the full picture of the bone, similar to the photos of the lion and cub! MRI shows soft tissue in great detail but will also image fractures. It also gives us slices through the tissue to give a much wider view of what is going on. MRIs carry no radiation. Finally diagnostic US is really only used by us in the musculoskeletal space to look for superficial soft tissue injuries (tendons and muscle bellies). It will not show fractures, and depends a lot on operator experience. So, in short, MRI always tells us the most information, but is costly, and often is not rebatable on Medicare. CT scans contain a LOT of radiation. Whilst they are sometimes necessary, it is rare that we cannot achieve the same information with an MRI. If you have been referred for some imaging and want to understand what it is for, ask your friendly Movehappy Physio!

07.01.2022 Cardio or strength?

05.01.2022 Here is your Sunday movement motivation. Acres to equipment or simply not being in the mood are reasons I often hear for not exercising. My brother is in the middle of two weeks of iso in SA after visiting our father in Canberra for his 80th birthday. ... Rather than sit and mope he decided to use the time to fulfill a long term goal of his; namely to run a Marathon. He did 2480 laps of a 17m figure 8 loop (42.16km). It took about 6.5 - 7 hours. Awesome work AJ! Happy Sunday everyone. Movehappy!

05.01.2022 We’re up and running for our pre-season ACL testing program, with a few teams on the horizon having scheduled in already! . Contact Jacob on [email protected] or Tom on [email protected] to book in your free screening!

02.01.2022 Welcome to freezing cold May! This month at Movehappy Jake and Tom are taking on the push up challenge, they're completing 3,046 push-ups in 21 days to raise awareness and funds for mental health. Please support them as we #pushforbetter this May. Starting May 11, these strapping young lads will average 145 push ups a day to reach their target. Please donate by following the link below!!!... **Cam has joined the team as well!!!** Jake Movehappyhc

02.01.2022 Non traumatic knee pain in the young. Most of the time this is benign and easily fixed with a combination of orthotics, stretching (including massage and needling), taping, and strengthening the quads and gluts. The following is an example of an assessment of the most common issue that we see in the young knee. ... If you need help with your child’s knees come and see us at Movehappy !!

02.01.2022 Exercising body and mind during our seniors class this afternoon!! A crossword, sudoku or quiz can help reduce the onset of dementia/Alzheimer’s and maintain short term memory retention - especially in a group!!! (We scored 17/20, not bad for the first go) ... #canberraphysiotherapy #canberraphysio #canberraexercisephysiologists

01.01.2022 Morning all, Please consider the following before attending the clinic in the coming weeks. Tom is offering Telehealth appointments via FaceTime, Zoom and Skype. If you would like reschedule your appointment or change to a telehealth session please call us on 6231 1155.

01.01.2022 Abs 101. Lesson one

01.01.2022 Good news everyone!! After the cabinet meeting 8/5/20 we are pleased to annouce we are able to resume exercise classes from this week! We are able to have a limit of 4 people including Tom so please get in touch with us on 6231 1155 regarding these!!! ... We will continue to update you all on the lifitng of restrictions as they arise.

01.01.2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikb8qX-kyts Lunch on Mother’s Day back in 2003 $50 A engagement ring bought at auction $1500 (so stressful) to replace the plastic dolphin that I used to propose (ask me next time for the story if you have not heard it)... 15 years marriage; priceless. Happy 15th wedding anniversary to my beautiful wife and business partner. 15 years of a wonderful marriage, 3 amazing and healthy children, and a great business in an industry that we’re both passionate about. Here’s the song that we played as we sealed the deal!