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Pain Radiating Down Your Arm? A Physio Explains Why
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Pain Radiating Down Your Arm? A Physio Explains Why

Sharp, electric or burning pain travelling from your neck or shoulder down into your arm and hand is not something to guess your way through.

Inside: the most common causes of shooting arm pain, the exact patterns each cervical nerve creates, the red flags you need to know, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery.

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Why Your Sore Shoulder Keeps Waking You Up at Night
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Why Your Sore Shoulder Keeps Waking You Up at Night

You settle into bed, roll onto your side, and your shoulder aches. Wake through the night, roll over, ache again. You are far from alone — night shoulder pain is one of the most common reasons people book in with us.

Inside: why lying on your side makes shoulder pain worse, the sleep positions that actually help, the common causes, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery.

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Disc Herniation and Leg Pain: What Dermatomes and Myotomes Tell You
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Disc Herniation and Leg Pain: What Dermatomes and Myotomes Tell You

Pain, tingling or weakness in your leg from a lumbar disc herniation is never random. It follows a specific map based on which nerve root is being irritated.

Inside: what dermatomes and myotomes actually are, how to read your own nerve map for L4, L5 and S1, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery.

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Disc Bulge vs Disc Herniation: What Is the Actual Difference?
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Disc Bulge vs Disc Herniation: What Is the Actual Difference?

Your MRI came back with "disc bulge" or "disc herniation" and now you are worried. They sound serious and get used interchangeably online, but they mean quite different things.

Inside: the plain English difference between a bulge and a herniation, why most cases settle without surgery, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery.

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Do Your Headaches Start at the Back of Your Neck? Here Is Why
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Do Your Headaches Start at the Back of Your Neck? Here Is Why

If your headache starts as tightness at the base of your skull, creeps forward and gets worse the longer you sit at your desk, it is probably coming from your neck. You are not imagining it.

Inside: what a cervicogenic headache actually is, how it differs from tension headaches and migraines, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery.

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Waking Up With Jaw Pain and Headaches? It Could Be Your TMJ
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Waking Up With Jaw Pain and Headaches? It Could Be Your TMJ

Waking up with jaw tightness, a dull ache at your temples or clicking when you open your mouth? You are not the only one, and it is more than a stress issue.

Inside: how your TMJ can drive headaches, the daily triggers that keep it flared up, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery.

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Can I Use My NDIS Plan for Physiotherapy in Sydney?
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Can I Use My NDIS Plan for Physiotherapy in Sydney?

If you have an NDIS plan, physiotherapy can be one of the most useful services in your Capacity Building budget, but only if you know which providers you can actually use.

Inside: what NDIS physio actually funds, the three ways NDIS plans are managed and why it matters, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery.

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How Much Should You Pay for Physiotherapy in Sydney?
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

How Much Should You Pay for Physiotherapy in Sydney?

Every clinic quotes physio differently and it can feel impossible to work out what a fair fee actually is. You are not the only one wondering.

Inside: what physio really costs in Sydney, how much Medicare and your health fund actually cover, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery.

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Heat or Ice for an Injury: Which One Do You Use?
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Heat or Ice for an Injury: Which One Do You Use?

Ice or heat? Everyone has an opinion, and most of it is wrong. Ice is for a fresh injury with swelling. Heat is for chronic tightness. But the details matter.

Inside: exactly when to use ice, when to use heat, the modern PEACE and LOVE protocol that has replaced RICE, common mistakes that slow healing, and when to see a Sydney physio at PHYZFIT Bexley North or Marrickville with Julian, Ari or Sam.

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When Is Lower Back Pain Serious and When Should You See a Physio?
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

When Is Lower Back Pain Serious and When Should You See a Physio?

Wondering if your back pain is serious? Most lower back pain is not, and it settles within 6 weeks. But there are red flag signs you should never ignore.

Inside: the red flags that mean serious lower back pain, when you should see a physio in Sydney, whether you need a scan, and how our Bexley North and Marrickville physio team helps you recover with Julian, Ari and Sam.

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Shoulder Tendinitis or Bursitis? Here Is What Helps.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Shoulder Tendinitis or Bursitis? Here Is What Helps.

Sharp pain reaching for the seatbelt. A dull ache stopping you sleeping on your side. Weakness lifting anything overhead. If that sounds familiar, you are most likely dealing with shoulder tendinitis, subacromial bursitis, or both together as part of a shoulder impingement pattern.

Inside: what shoulder tendinitis and subacromial bursitis actually are, why they usually flare together, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT Bexley North can help support your recovery through targeted rotator cuff strengthening and scapular stabilisation.

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Sprained Ankle Not Getting Better? Here Is What Works.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Sprained Ankle Not Getting Better? Here Is What Works.

You rolled your ankle weeks ago. The swelling settled, the pain faded, but it still gives way on uneven ground and rolls again the moment you jog. If that sounds familiar, you are most likely dealing with an incompletely rehabbed ankle sprain.

Inside: what an ankle sprain actually is (lateral, medial and high ankle sprains), how to tell if it is sprained or broken, and how our sports physio team at PHYZFIT Bexley North can help rebuild your ankle strength, proprioception and confidence.

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City to Surf in 6 Weeks? Here Is Your Prep Plan.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

City to Surf in 6 Weeks? Here Is Your Prep Plan.

14 kilometres of Sydney streets, one Heartbreak Hill and 80,000 other runners. City to Surf is one of the biggest fun runs in the world, and the last 6 weeks before race day are what make or break your result.

Inside: a full week by week breakdown of the last 6 weeks of your City to Surf running training, the common mistakes that lead to shin splints or runners knee in the taper, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your race day preparation.

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Hyrox Wrecking Your Knees? Here Is How to Manage It.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Hyrox Wrecking Your Knees? Here Is How to Manage It.

Wall balls that never end, sandbag lunges that light your quads up, and 8km of running mixed through the whole thing. If your knees are complaining after Hyrox training, you are far from alone.

Inside: why Hyrox loads your knees so heavily across wall balls, sled push, sled pull and sandbag lunges, the most common Hyrox knee pain diagnoses (patellofemoral pain and patellar tendon issues), and how our sports physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery and race day preparation.

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Knee Arthritis? You CAN do something about it.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Knee Arthritis? You CAN do something about it.

Sore knees getting up from the couch, stiff knees in the morning, and the feeling that going for a walk is a bigger deal than it used to be. If that sounds familiar, you are most likely dealing with knee arthritis (also known as knee osteoarthritis or knee OA).

Inside: what knee arthritis actually is, why exercise therapy consistently outperforms passive treatments in the research, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery, delay knee replacement surgery and get you moving again.

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Chronic Pain - What you need to know.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Chronic Pain - What you need to know.

You have been living with pain that has stuck around for months, or maybe years. Scans came back mostly clear, treatments have come and gone, and you are wondering if this is just your life now. If that sounds familiar, you are most likely dealing with chronic pain.

Inside: what chronic pain actually is according to modern pain science, why persistent pain does not always match tissue damage, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help support your recovery with a modern chronic pain management plan.

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Soccer Warm Up? Here Is Why FIFA 11+ Cuts Injury Risk.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Soccer Warm Up? Here Is Why FIFA 11+ Cuts Injury Risk.

You know your body should be warmed up before you kick off, but a lap of the field and some old school static stretches is probably not doing much. The FIFA 11+ is a structured soccer warm up program that has been shown to cut football injury risk by up to 50 percent.

Inside: what the FIFA 11+ program actually is, why it works for ACL injury prevention and hamstring injury prevention, and how our sports physiotherapy team builds it into training and pre match warm ups for footballers across junior football, grassroots and NPL football.

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ACL Tear from Soccer? Here Is What It Actually Means.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

ACL Tear from Soccer? Here Is What It Actually Means.

You planted your foot to change direction, felt a pop in your knee, and dropped to the grass. If that sounds familiar you are most likely dealing with an ACL tear, one of the most feared soccer knee injuries.

Inside: what an ACL rupture actually is, why non contact ACL injuries are so common in football (especially in female footballers), and how our sports physiotherapy team at PHYZFIT can help support your ACL rehabilitation from prehab through return to sport.

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Sore shins from running? Here's what's really going on.
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Sore shins from running? Here's what's really going on.

You head out for a run, push through 2km, and that familiar sharp ache starts running down the front of your shins.

You back off, the pain eases, and the next run brings it straight back.

If that sounds familiar, you are most likely dealing with shin splints, and the reason it keeps coming back is not bad shoes.

Inside: why shin splints almost always come down to a load issue, the mistakes that turn a 4 week problem into a 4 month problem, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help you work towards getting on top of it properly.

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Rolled Your Ankle and Hoping It Will Just Heal? Here Is Why It Often Does Not
Julian De Rosa Julian De Rosa

Rolled Your Ankle and Hoping It Will Just Heal? Here Is Why It Often Does Not

You roll your ankle stepping off a curb, on uneven ground, or coming down from a jump.

The swelling fades, the pain settles in a few days, and you assume it has healed.

If that sounds familiar, you are most likely dealing with an untreated ankle sprain, and the reason it keeps giving you trouble is not bad luck.

Inside: why up to 70 percent of ankle sprains do not fully heal on their own, the chronic instability cycle that follows, and how our physio team at PHYZFIT can help you work towards getting on top of it properly.

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