This week’s Mosaic Myotherapy social media newsletter features four mini-articles from our Facebook Page. Topics covered this issue include: Sitting Down For Too Long May Increase Anxiety; Choosing Music over Medication, overcoming cervical dystonia; Arrangements While Mosaic Myotherapy Takes a Short Break; and Healthy Practices, Healthy Patients, Health Communities. A readily printable one-pager is available here for downloading.

Sitting Down For Too Long May Increase Anxiety

23rd June 2015: If you’ve been in to see us about ‪‎musculoskeletal‬ pain you’ll almost certainly have heard our ‪Myotherapist‬ talk about how we’re designed to move, and how that means not sitting on our backsides for hours at a time.

Hopefully, if you spend a lot of time sitting, you’ll have made some changes too and be spending a little less time getting up close and personal with the chairs in your life (ie those at work, and at home too).

New research, published a few days ago in the journal BMC Public Health identifies a link between sitting and anxiety. While the findings are preliminary, they nevertheless give additional weight to current advice about not sitting for extended periods.

Now that you’ve read this, do something positive for body and mind. Get up from that chair and give your body a chance to do what it was designed for, ie move! … click here to read item.

Choosing Music over Medication, overcoming cervical dystonia

12th July 2015: Inspiring video footage from The Globe and Mail of an usual pt initiated approach to a complex pain/movement disorder (focal dystonia) that our ‪‎myotherapists‬ here at Mosaic Myotherapyy occasionally see.

Amazing to see the brain at work. Enjoy!!

Video: http://bit.ly/1eSCpwx … click here to read item.

Arrangements While Mosaic Myotherapy Takes a Short Break

17th July 2015: At Mosaic Myotherapy we’re currently taking a short break from seeing patients. Although we’re not in the office at present, we’re only a short phonecall (1300 55 44 51), email (info@mosaicmyotherapy.com.au) or fax (03 8677 1792) away . If you need advice or appointments, just contact us as per usual and we’ll happily help you out over the phone, email or fax, and if needed we’ll refer you on to one of our wonderful colleagues.

For those north of the Yarra, or with Running Injuries, Jason Nass at Performance Myotherapy should be able to help.

For those needing myofascial release, or close to Richmond, then Matt Jeffers at The Musculoskeletal Co. is there to help.

For spinal issues around Melbourne’s inner south, Brett Rawlings at Spine Smart Back and Neck Specialists in Malvern is seeing patients for us.

And likewise, for general Myotherapy in Elsternwick and surrounds, Rotana Cheng and Fiona Neil from the Clinical Myotherapy Group are helping us out.

We’ll be back on deck soon, but if we’re unable to find you a time in the meanwhile, all of these wonderful myotherapists know their stuff very well and I’m sure they’ll be only to happy to assist. … click here to read item.

Healthy Practices, Healthy Patients, Health Communities

30th July 2015: At Mosaic Myotherapy we’re proud as punch to be able to share with you an article which our Principal Practitioner, Elaine Stevenson, has just co-authored with Dr John Reggars OAM for The Chiropractic & Osteopathic College of Australasia – (COCA).

For those of you who don’t know, Elaine is also an Epidemiologist with a special interest in Infectious Disease Control and Prevention. This article therefore covers two areas that she’s particularly passionate about.
It’s something a little different to our standard posts, we hope you enjoy..… click here to read item.

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