Lifestyle Advice

At the South Yarra Osteopathic Clinic we realise that musculoskeletal health is just one component of your body health! Here we’ll discuss various different areas that will contribute to an overall improvement in your health.

Different areas that we’ll focus on are,

  • Diet
  • Footwear
  • Posture & Behaviours
  • Sleep  & Breathing
  • Vitamins & Supplements
  • Stress management

All of these topics are pivotal for improving overall health and will contribute with Osteopathy to helping you feel better!


3 Tips for the Best Back to School Care

Back to School! The end of January is quickly approaching and that means back to school year for our many families who attend Yarra Osteopathy. We see many children in the lead up to term one as they prepare to start a new school year. This can be a great time of the...

Movement, Exercise and Your Health

This week I listened to an excellent podcast featuring biomechanist Katy Bowman. Katy talked about the differences between movement and exercise in the context of our increasingly sedentary lives and how they affect our health. It was really interesting and got me...

Magnesium

Magnesium is a mineral required by the body for healthy function of our bones and nervous system that also plays a major role in controlling inflammation, energy production and the control of blood sugar. From our perspective as Osteopaths, Magnesium is essential for...

Perfecting Posture with Pilates

In these chilly months we have been having, it can be difficult to motivate ourselves to leave our cosy burrows of hibernation to exercise. Here in South Yarra we see many more postural related injuries in these winter months due to the desk, sleep, repeat cycle most...

The Best TV Viewing from 2014…

Its not often that your osteopath will recommend that you head home, settle into the couch and watch TV! Well this is your homework assignment for today. Don’t delay… This two part Catalyst special (The gut reaction part 1 and part 2), is all about the link between...

High Heel Madness

Now that the silly season has come to an end, it is time to discuss hanging up those party shoes for a while. Don’t get me wrong, I am a keen shoe enthusiast, but all of us should consider what toll our fancy footwear is having on our bodies. Statistics show that one...