Health Tips

A Buyers’ Guide to Mattresses    – by Dr Ray Power (Principal Osteopath)  As featured in The West Australian’s ‘Habitat’ pull-out, Friday 21 August 2015. Along with good nutrition and exercise, sleep is now recognised as an important contributor to good health. Lack of sleep and poor quality sleep contribute to depression, poor concentration, high…

Tradesmen’s Health Tradies have among the highest number of injuries, musculoskeletal conditions and other health and safety risks of any profession. Every day 10 tradies are badly injured at work. That is 3650 tradies a year on workers compensation. Nearly a quarter of all roofers, labourers and plumbers experience back pain, muscle stress and strain…

 Osteopathy & Arthritis Years ago, arthritis was considered an inherent part of the aging process, and a signal to a patient that it’s time to slow down; but not anymore. Recent research and clinical findings show that there is much more to life for arthritis patients than the traditional recommendations of bed rest and drug…

Osteopathy & Shoulder Injuries Life can bring activities and sports that can result in some common injuries involving the shoulder. Sports such as tennis, golf, swimming, soccer, wake-boarding or water skiing, and even home maintenance work, can all cause shoulder problems. The rotator cuff is comprised of a group of muscles and tendons that cross…

Dr Ray Power’s Interview on Curtin FM Last year, Dr Ray Power spoke on Curtin FM about Osteopathy. If you’re interested in finding out more about osteopathic treatment and care, have a listen below!

Me and my pregnancy-induced Osteitis Pubis: a novel By Zoë Foster Blake www.zotheysay.com You’ll hear women start many a sentence like this when they’re pregnant: “No one tells you that….” Could be the fact you will snore. You will get fat fingers. You will go up a shoe size and may never come back down. You…

De-stress your life naturally! Our lives are busy – work, study, family, and so much more so in the lead up to Christmas. Naturopaths see many clients suffering the effects of stress. You may be worried, anxious, depressed, irritable, exhausted, overloaded or forgetful.  You may suffer stiff, sore muscles or joints, tension headaches, frequent colds…

Acute Low Back Pain The lumbar spine is the bottom section of the spine and consists of five vertebrae. Between these vertebrae are structures called discs which act as shock absorbers. There are countless muscles acting on the lumbar spine and a number of strong ligaments which provide the spine with stability. Many of these…

Sporting Injuries in Children, Teens & Adolescents Did you know that almost 40% of all children, teenager and adolescent injuries are sports-related? Injuries in the young athlete are often trivialised. They are usually asked or encouraged to “toughen up and play through the pain.” This approach is not in the young athlete’s best interest for…