As a primary caregiver, doctors are on the front lines everyday with patients. As such, it’s their duty to ensure that their patients not only get the best care, but also make sure they can make an informed decision about their treatment options. One pain point for many Australians is health insurance, specifically knowing what…
Put Your Best Foot Forward at your Podiatry Appointment From sprained ankles to black toenails, corns, calluses and shin pain – your local podiatrist can help you with problems affecting your feet and lower limbs. In most cases, a referral is not required as consultations generally aren’t covered by Medicare. The exception may be if…
Eating for eye health is simple: the food that is good for your eyes is good for the whole of you, as your eyes are part of you! This is common sense, but something we sometimes forget. The common eye conditions, cataract and macular degeneration, are at least partly due to oxidative damage, also known…
Choosing what is good to eat can be confusing enough when you’re able-bodied, let alone when you’re injured. With all the complicated food messages in the media and online about diets it can be hard to sort the fab from the fad. Should we go paleo, vegan, low-carb, high-fat, ketogenic…? Add all this the pain,…
Here’s What 7 Pain Professionals Recommend for a Better Recovery after an Injury. Pain from a serious injury is common, we all know someone who has suffered from back pain, nerve pain, knee pain, arthritic pain or stomach pain. During this time advice can be confusing and frustrating when all you want is to feel…
On average children will catch 6 to 8 colds per year, with adults catching 2 to 4 colds per year. These symptoms can last for a week or two, and can include fatigue, a runny nose, fever, headache and sore throat. When there are around 200 different kinds of viruses that cause the ‘common cold’,…
Knowing about STIs is an important part of being responsible for your sexual health, the old saying what you don’t know can’t hurt you simply doesn’t apply here so let’s set aside the STI stigma and continue the conversation starting with Herpes. Genital Herpes, more commonly known simply as Herpes is a viral infection. Most…
Cold and flu season is well and truly upon us. As the temperature continues to drop the chances of contracting a cold or the flu increase. For most this means curling up with a lemon tea, some tissues and an endless supply of TV shows to get us through. However, for the more vulnerable populations like the…
The reality is our eating habits play a major role in tooth decay, which is a diet related disease. Sugars in the food and drinks we eat are taken up by bacteria, producing acids that attack the outer layer of tooth enamel to cause decay. Our saliva helps our teeth recover from these attacks through…
Pain is something we all experience at one time or another. When we’ve stubbed our toes as kids to when we’ve fallen down stairs as adults, breaking many bones. Acute pain from a serious injury or back pain, stomach pain, nerve pain, arthritic pain; all are common in our communities. Recently, we asked pain professionals…