Category Archives: Pain

At The Movement Centre our Randwick Podiatry and Randwick Physio team appreciate that pain can be debilitating. It can impact your work, your hobbies, your social life. We aim to clearly identify the cause of your pain, explain the contributing factors to you, and give you strategies to immediately manage your pain and commence the recovery process. Enabling our clientele to break free from pain, is the reason we turn up to work each day.

Big Toe Pain

Big Toe Pain

What is Big Toe Pain? As a podiatrist, big toe pain is one of the more common conditions we’ll see in our clinic. The pain is often located at the first metatarsophalangeal joint (1st MTPJ), which is the joint where the big toe meets the foot. Often these symptoms can become debilitating and affect ones […]

Physio Management For A Rotator Cuff Injury

Physio Management For A Rotator Cuff Injury

What is the rotator cuff? There is so much fear, noise, and misinformation about rotator cuffs. So we thought we’d give some background. Patients see us for shoulder physio terrified that they have torn their “cuff”. Or worried because they know someone who has a rotator cuff injury that didn’t heal. Let’s not even get […]

Foot Pain Dancing

Foot Pain Dancing

Returning to Dance after the summer break? With lots of dance schools heading into term 1 after a break over the holidays, now is a great time to be on the look out for signs of excessive fatigue, pain and changes in posture of the feet, ankles and lower legs. Classes like Jazz, Ballet, Tap, […]

A Beginners Guide To Hamstring Injuries

A Beginners Guide To Hamstring Injuries

Hammy strains are a common sports injury We field so many questions about hamstrings. We endlessly hear about them in professional sports. And athletes of all levels live in fear of the dreaded twinge in the back of the thigh. But dreaded hamstring injuries do not need to be feared. A hamstring tear can be […]

Potential Causes Behind Shoulder Pain Swimming

Potential Causes Behind Shoulder Pain Swimming

Shoulder Pain Swimming Is Very Common As the weather warms up, the beaches and pools across Sydney’s eastern suburbs are packed with swimmers. As a result, the physio clinics in the area are often packed with swimming shoulder pain complaints. Swimming is a great exercise for cardiovascular fitness, but it should be no surprise that […]

Chronic ankle pain – when acute ankle sprains don’t resolve

Chronic ankle pain - when acute ankle sprains don't resolve

Chronic ankle pain is frequently multifactorial An acute lateral ankle sprain is the quintessential injury that presents for physio at our Randwick practice the Movement Centre. Most of us have experienced it. Rolling the ankle outward, the foot rolling under us into an inverted position. There is usually acute pain and swelling on the outer […]

How To Avoid Sore Feet this Holiday Season

How To Avoid Sore Feet this Holiday Season

Podiatry Tips For Looking After Your Sore Feet Now that Summer is quickly approaching, I have no doubt there are plenty of us preparing for our long awaited post-Covid holiday. If this is your first getaway in quite some time, the last thing you want to run into is foot problems. Here is a quick […]

The Meniscus Of The Knee Joint

The Meniscus Of The Knee Joint

What Is The Meniscus Of The Knee The meniscus of the knee is a fibrocartilage structure, with each knee having two fibrocartilage menisci. Each anchored to the tibial plateau side of the joint, the top part of the lower leg bone acting as a cushion between the femoral condyle and the tibia plateau. As mentioned, […]

Return To Running With Running Knee Pain

Running Knee Pain

Issues Around Returning To Running After Injury We get a lot of questions about time frames and strategies for returning to sport for running knee pain. While there is no single answer for all people and conditions, there are some concepts that we find effective for many of our running physio patients. As the days […]