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Cervical Spine - Where is the pain coming from?
Neck pain is extremely common – affecting up to 70% of people at some stage of their lives, and up to 40% of people in any one year. It...
Paul Monaro
Mar 21, 20204 min read
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Cervical Spine - Acute wry neck
I regularly treat patients with acute wry neck – sometimes termed acute torticollis. Here is what I have learned about this condition...
Paul Monaro
Mar 21, 20202 min read
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Cervical Spine - How I treat neck pain
Neck pain is extremely common. It is possibly more prevalent than low back pain. The difference is that people are more likely to ignore...
Paul Monaro
Mar 21, 20202 min read
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Cervical Myelopathy
Cervical cord compression, or cervical stenosis, can develop due to degenerative changes in the discs and uncovertebral or zygapophyseal...
Paul Monaro
Mar 20, 20202 min read
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Tennis Elbow - the case against cortisone injection
For over ten years, it has been acknowledged that tendon pain and disease is a non-inflammatory condition(4,5). ‘Tendinopathies’,...
Paul Monaro
Mar 19, 20202 min read
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Tennis Elbow - Latest Research 2015
(This newsletter is a summary of Coombes et al 2015). Lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET), also known as tennis elbow or lateral...
Paul Monaro
Mar 19, 20203 min read
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Groin Pain - Diagnosis & differential diagnosis
Acute or chronic athletic groin pain is extremely common, particularly in the football codes. It affects males significantly more...
Paul Monaro
Mar 18, 20205 min read
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Hamstring Injury - Avulsion of the hamstring origin
An injury that I see with surprising frequency is a complete rupture of the hamstring origin at the ischial tuberosity. While said to be...
Paul Monaro
Mar 17, 20206 min read
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Hamstring Injuries - Risk Factors
Hamstring injuries account for the most number of games missed in Australian football. Despite efforts to reduce the incidence of these...
Paul Monaro
Mar 17, 20202 min read
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