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  • Lumbar Disc Injury Overview

    Lumbar Disc Injury Overview

    Lumbar Disc Injury Overview

    What is a Lumbar Disc Injury

    What is a lumbar disc injury? What’s the difference between a disc bulge a disc herniation and a disc prolapse?

    Disc injuries are one of the most common causes of lower back pain. Recovery often takes longer than with other types of back pain. With professional help from your Free2Move Physiotherapist, you can promote optimal recovery and reduce down time. The first step is education. We believe it’s very important that you understand the nature of disc injuries. Managing your injury effectively right from the beginning will save you a lot of pain and reduce overall medical expenses.

    A disc bulge occurs when a weakness in the outer wall allows the disc to change shape. The material on the inside bulges outwards deforming the outer wall, which may put pressure on sensitive surrounding structures including the nerve roots. This is a common and less severe form of disc injury.

     


    A disc herniation (also called a disc prolapse)     occurs when pressure on the disc causes the softer nucleus material to crack the outer wall of the disc and leak out.

    Physiotherapy, clinical Pilates and the Feldenkrais Method can all be useful modalities in the recovery process

    Read more about lumbar disc injuries and how to recover in the shortest possible time.

  • Jodie in India with Equal Health 2011

    Jodie in India with Equal Health 2011

    Jodie in India with Equal Health 2011

    Jodie Krantz traveled as a volunteer physiotherapist to the province of Tamil Nadu in southern India. Here she spent 2 weeks in Tiruchiparelli (Trichy) with a team of doctors, nurses, physios, dentists and opticians, providing much needed health service to extremely poor villagers. The trip was exceptionally well organised by Equal Health, a non-government organisation based in East Perth.

    Jodie Krantz as a volunteer physiotherapist treating a patient in IndiaJodie with local Physiotherapist and translator Yogeshwari AKA Yogi. Yogi was due to be married to another Physio on 16th March. It was an arranged marriage and she’d only met him briefly once. She was very excited and optimistic.

     

    Jodie with Rice Workers near Amur in Tamil Nadu, Southern India.

     

     

     

     

     

    Helpers and potential patients arrive at the venue for our clinic – a cinema complex in Trichy.

     

     

     

     

     

    Equal Health ‘Trichy Team’ boys in their costumes for the Bollywood Dance Competition. These Australian team members helped make our journey so much fun. David (Optometrist), Rob (Physio), Blue (Dentist), Bill (Doctor), John (Doctor) and Paul (Team Leader / Optical Dispenser) incognito.

     

     

     

     

    Australian Equal Health girls (Trichy team) dress up for the Bollywood Dance Competition in Chenai, southern India. Girls from back left Kylie, Sally (aka as Salvita because Sally meant “sputum” in Tamil) Lynette, Natarsha, Thien Nien, Gay, Andrea and I. Natarsha ran Yoga classes for us in the mornings.