Soft Tissue Therapy Meadow Springs

Name: Mandurah Spine and Sport
Address: 32 Tuckey St, Mandurah, Western Australia, 6210, Australia
Telephone: (08) 9518 1416
Price range: $$

If you have been stretching the same spot for months with no lasting change, the stretch is probably not the problem. Tissue that stays restricted despite consistent effort usually needs hands-on input and a change in load.

Soft tissue therapy at our Tuckey Street clinic combines the two.

Meadow Springs is minutes away via Mandurah Road and Pinjarra Road, so a course of treatment is easy to keep up with.

Trigger points and referred pain

Stretching a tight muscle feels productive and often is not. If the tissue is tight because it is overloaded rather than short, more stretch adds load to something already struggling.

Whether you need to lengthen it or strengthen it is a question the assessment answers.

Around Meadow Springs, upper back and hip flexor tension from commuting and desk work is the version we see most.

When it is the tendon

Achilles, patellar, gluteal, rotator cuff and both elbow tendinopathies all follow broadly similar principles with different specifics. What varies most is the starting point, which depends on how irritable it is.

Where a tendon has stalled despite good loading, shockwave therapy is one of the options we can add.

Around Meadow Springs, Achilles and patellar tendon problems usually follow a jump in running volume.

Strains and getting back to it

Not every strain needs treatment, and we will say so. Some settle perfectly well with sensible activity and a fortnight. What benefits from assessment is anything that is not clearly improving week on week, or a strain in the same spot as last time.

Around Meadow Springs, hamstring and calf strains from weekend sport after a sedentary week are the usual story.

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Tension from the way you work

Jaw tension, teeth grinding and neck pain travel together more often than people realise. If you wake with a sore jaw and a stiff neck, mention both – they are usually one problem.

Around Meadow Springs, the commute north plus a desk job is the combination that produces most of this.

Stiffness that will not shift

Range gained in a session is not kept unless it is used. That is why treatment is followed by specific movement work rather than a recommendation to take it easy.

Around Meadow Springs, hip and ankle stiffness that limits running is the version we see most.

Where hands-on treatment stops

Some symptoms need medical assessment rather than treatment: unexplained weight loss with pain, fever with spinal pain, significant unexplained weakness, or changes in bladder or bowel function. We will direct you to your GP if any of that comes up.

If you are in Meadow Springs and not sure it warrants an appointment, ring (08) 9518 1416 and we will tell you honestly.

Soft tissue complaints common around Meadow Springs

Meadow Springs is 1990s and 2000s estate housing built around the golf course, a few minutes north-east of the centre – which shapes the pattern of what we see.

There is a strong golfing population here, and golf is one of the more reliable sources of low back, hip and shoulder complaints we see. Long drives, desk work and exercise crammed into whatever gap exists is a reliable formula for tight hip flexors, sore upper backs and calves that complain the moment you start running again.

Hands-on treatment settles the symptoms quickly; the progression is what keeps them settled.

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