Peak Physiology | Occupational health and injury prevention for Hunter businesses Psychosocial risk is the area of work health and safety where the gap between what businesses have in place…
Peak Physiology | Occupational health and injury prevention for Hunter businesses Ask any experienced tradesperson, operator or storeperson about their body and you will hear a version of the same…
Peak Physiology | Occupational health and injury prevention for Hunter businesses Almost every industrial business in the Hunter has run manual handling training. Many run it annually. Workers can recite…
Peak Physiology | Occupational health and injury prevention for Hunter businesses Most workplaces treat fatigue as a personal problem. Someone turns up flat, gets a comment about a late night,…
“Manual handling training doesn’t work.” It’s a statement we hear often as of late and it’s not entirely wrong. But the conclusion many draw from it is, because traditional lift…
How often do we hear "I have a bad back", I think any Exercise Physiologist (EP) would say - daily. No one has a bad back, rather people have either…
In recent times, various health professionals are sprouting that posture doesn't matter and doesn't increase pain or chance of injury... I disagree, this thinking has come from studies on community…
Some of the current achedemics in the Rehab world are now writing that back pain has nothing to do with posture and Lifting technique... see the article here: ( https://theconversation-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/theconversation.com/amp/having-good-posture-doesnt-prevent-back-pain-and-bad-posture-doesnt-cause-it-183732…
Without movement, stagnation occurs and we can see this in many different contexts - the economy or a pond. Stagnation is defined as lack of activity, growth or development. Often…
Pain injuries or chronic health conditions dosnt need to be always a forever thing. Just a couple of weeks back I was speaking with a client who was just recently…