Getting stronger before a hip or knee replacement
Waiting for a hip or knee replacement? Learn what exercise before surgery (prehab) can and cannot do, what the research shows, and how SOS Clinic physio can help you prepare.
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Bone on bone, can exercise still help a hip or knee?
Told your hip or knee is bone on bone? Find out why exercise is still the first treatment for arthritis, what it can and cannot do, and how SOS Clinic physio can help.
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Knee replacement rehab, the milestones and how strength testing tracks them
Recovering from a knee replacement? Learn the usual rehab milestones, why the thigh muscle stays weak for months, and how SOS Clinic physio uses strength testing to track your progress.
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Inside a biomechanical assessment at SOS Clinic
See what happens in a biomechanical profile assessment at SOS Clinic. Force plates, strength testing and 3D motion tracking show how your body moves, so your rehab plan is built on numbers.
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Hip replacement rehab, walking, stairs and getting back to sport
Recovering from a hip replacement? Learn how rehab builds walking, stairs and hip strength, what research says about returning to sport, and how SOS Clinic physio can help.
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Lateral hip pain, what exercise and load advice can do
Pain on the outside of your hip? Learn what gluteal tendinopathy is, what the LEAP trial found about education and exercise, and simple ways to ease the load on the tendon.
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Hamstring strain, recovery and preventing the next one
Pulled a hamstring? Learn how hamstring strains heal, what rehab the research supports, and how the Nordic hamstring exercise helps prevent the next one. SOS Clinic physio, East Melbourne.
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Rotator cuff tendinopathy, why loading beats rest
Shoulder pain from the rotator cuff? See what the research says about exercise, why rest alone rarely helps, and what placebo surgery trials found about decompression.
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ACL rehab and the tests that come before return to sport
Recovering from an ACL injury, with or without surgery? Learn how strength and hop testing guide return to sport, why reinjury is common, and how SOS Clinic physio can help.
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Hip impingement, what physiotherapy can do
Diagnosed with hip impingement or FAI syndrome? See what trials comparing physiotherapy with hip arthroscopy found, and what a good hip physio program includes.
