Up until recently, many people diagnosed with cancer were told to take it easy and rest up to best recover, but recent research has shown that this may actually do more harm than good. Exercise has been shown to help reduce side effects associated with cancer treatments, improve the effectiveness of the treatment and improve overall quality of life!

Exercise can help increase what is referred to as our, “Cognitive Reserve.” The Cognitive Reserve Hypothesis theorises that if brain tissue has sustained a functional loss or is damaged in one region, that the original level of functioning may be able to be maintained by other regions of the brain working harder to counteract the negative effects of the altered neurons. Cognitive Reserve is essentially your brain’s way of finding an alternate route to help you reach your destination or, “accomplish tasks,” when road-blocks have been established.

Osteoarthritis is a chronic condition which is characterised by a break down of cartilage around the joints, this can cause pain and loss of motion in affected joints.

While exercise will not cure Osteoarthritis some specifically targeted exercises can help help with the management of pain and maintain flexibility.

Exercise is considered the best non-drug therapy for the management of Osteoarthritis for maintaining flexibility and reducing pain.

Very frequently, in fact far too often, spinal surgery is decided as an appropriate course of action with people who have identified issues from imaging after only a short period of pain.