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What is vertigo? Verti- what? A very strange term for a very strange symptom. It’s basically the sensation that you or your environment is spinning or moving. Imagine you’ve spun around in a [...]

Cairns Total Physio has been providing exemplary physiotherapy and exercise physiology services to the NDIS participants since its inception in 2017. Cairns Total Physio employs caring, [...]

Cairns Total Physiotherapy is now offering Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy for Women! Angela Hewitt has 15 years experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist and has recently completed post [...]

What is Telehealth and How Does it work? Telehealth is a video or phone consultation between a health professional and a patient. Consultations are used for advice and exercises supervised by our [...]

With Tim Lowcock, Northern Pride Physiotherapist The hamstring strain…. an extremely common injury in field sports such as Aussie Rules, Rugby League, Rugby Union. As a result, there is a large [...]

with Chris Stanger, Physiotherapist Achilles tendinopathy is a common condition that can present as an acute or chronic injury. Patients will present with pain in either the mid portion of the [...]

Hopefully everyone’s new years resolution is going well! For many people it involves getting returning to exercise and losing that weight that has been bugging them since last Christmas! With new [...]

After being asked many times what exactly osteoarthritis is, I think it’s time to write a blog answering some commonly asked questions and bring forward some recent evidence for prevention and [...]

Referral for investigations such as x-ray, ultrasound, CT or MRI scans is an expectation that has developed considerably over the last few years. The belief that having a scan will show exactly [...]

I can’t remember a day in the clinic, where a patient didn’t say to me, my back/neck/shoulder hurts because I have poor posture! It is a widely held belief by many that sitting up tall with a [...]