breathe well to be well

One in ten people experience some form of breathing pattern disorder at some time in their lives. This can produce a range of disturbing symptoms that baffle you and your doctor. If you experience feelings of air hunger, being tired all the time, frequent sighing/yawning, disturbed sleep, stress, anxiety, achy muscles or joints, upset gut, chest pains, irritability, dizzy spells or feeling spaced out etc it can be very worrying which in itself may lead to further over breathing and a build up of symptoms. Breathing this way can become a habit and a vicious cycle is created.Lynne Clay is a certified BradCliff Practitioner (www.bradcliff.com).She will help you break the cycle and restore energy efficient breathing, improving energy levels and renewing self-confidence. Phone Cairn Physiotherapy on 03 445 4688 to make an appointment with Lynne and start enjoying life to the full again or phone Lynne on 027 279 7321 for more information. Home visits can be arranged in the Wanaka, Alexandra and Queenstown areas.

Cairn Physiotherapy - SPECIAL OFFER FOR THE NEW YEAR

Is your New Year’s resolution to get a new body? Start 2010 on a positive and sort out any of those niggles, aches and pains. Cairn Physiotherapy is offering your first appointment surcharge free for ACC claims and half price to everyone else for the whole of January! Go on, do yourself a favour and start the year as you mean to go on! For an appointment call in to Junction Health on McNulty Rd or phone 445 4688.

Introducing the physio's @ Cairn Physiotherapy

Edel O'Hagan
Edel graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin in 2005. Now a permanent NZ resident, her special interests are in Biomechanics, Muscle Balance and Core Stability. Edel is a qualified Pilates instructor. She has been involved in the rehab of athletes at club and international level. Her own sports interests include climbing, hiking and running.

Will Bain
Will has 28 years experience as a physiotherapist and attained a Masters of Physiotherapy majoring in Sport in 2004. He is proficient in a variety of physiotherapy doctrines. His professional interests are chronic pain, difficult musculoskeletal problems that won’t go away and integrative biomechanics. His personal interests are rock climbing and mountaineering.

Lynne Clay
Lynne has been working as a physiotherapist for 20 years and attained a Masters of Physiotherapy in 2002. Her areas of expertise lie in the fields of neurology (stoke, MS, Parkinson's disease), long term pain management and breathing problems (hyperventilation, asthma, emphysema). She enjoys being in the outdoors, yoga and wine tasting in her spare time.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT

CAIRN Ltd would like to announce the opening of CAIRN PHYSIOTHERAPY. We will be offering clinic based physiotherapy services from Junction Health Medical Centre, Traders Lane, Cromwell from November 23rd 2009. Keep watching for further information or phone 0800 800 288.

Vocational Rehabilitation

Vocational Rehabilitation is "whatever helps someone with a health problem to stay at, return to and remain in work" (Waddell et al 2008). This area of rehabilitation is a major focus for us at Cairn Ltd.

Lynne recently attended a 2 day course in Christchurch run by the University of Otago. This course incorporated both theory and practice in workplace assessment and rehabilitation including the role of the Occupational Health Physician, the importnce of work to health, psychosocial issues, assessment tools, vibration exposure in farmers using 4WD bikes, task analysis, computer analysis of biomechanical demands and the barriers and facilitators for successful return to work.

The course also presented a great opportunity to network with other physiotherapists interested in this area.

Training the Brain

Lorimer Moseley, a physiotherapist from Australia, is carrying out research that is suggesting new ways to treat people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) which he presented at this years NZ Pain Society conference. CRPS is generally held to be an abnormal inflammatory response to minor peripheral trauma mainly found in the hand or foot. The biggest predictor of CRPS in a recent study by Moseley appears to be high pain levels in the first week of > 6/10 (where 0 is no pain and 10 is the most excruciating pain ever experienced). Once CRPS persists beyond a few months it is thought to be maintained by the central nervous system with alterations to brain function. This may sound scary, however, it provides physiotherapists and occupational therapists with new ways to treat CRPS with the focus changing to training the brain rather than only treating the affected arm or leg. It now seems entirely possible that people suffering from CRPS can make huge improvements and get back to living life to the full.

Cairn therapists have experience in neuro-rehabilitation and have been embracing this new direction in CRPS management with success. If you want to know more - give us a call.

Chest Pain

At the recent NZ Pain Society Conference, Professor Mike Chester from the UK presented a facinating talk on chest pain of presumed cardiac origin eg. angina. Such pain is characterised by fear and confusion and is mostly based on understandable misconceptions. Professor Chester and his team have had huge success in helping people manage chest pain though listening and educating people and their families on what's happening in their bodies and empowering people to call the shots. By reducing the fear aspect of chest pain people have been able to return to many of the activities they had stopped.

Thinking of angina as a type of persistent pain is something that we at Cairn had not considered before and, yet it makes perfect sense. If you would like to know more or even listen to recordings of Professor Chester's presentations please contact us.