Physio by Lani

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While 2024 has been such a big year at Physio by Lani, we are ready to welcome everything that 2025 brings.

We are now open and looking forward to hearing from you. Please feel free to contact us for any inquiries or to book your appointment.

We are available from 8:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday.

Celebrations are in order! Lani has recently completed her Master of Physiotherapy degree and attended her graduation ceremony in Durban. She is very passionate about research and would love to share what she has learned.

Lani is now back so please feel free to contact us for bookings or any other information.

It's time to start the new year! We are open!

Please feel free to make a booking at 082 411 4661.

We can't wait to see you!

#2021

Pain getting you down? We feel you…and so will most of the earth’s population at some point in their lives.

Pain triggers an emotional response in everyone: mostly mild irritability and frustration. These are completely normal feelings and this stressful response usually stops as the pain subsides.

But what if the pain lasts weeks, months or even years? Your pain gets worse and worse as changes in your body leave you more sensitive to pain causing you to hurt in places that used to feel fine before. What if the mild irritability leads to overwhelming hopelessness?

It was once thought that the link between pain, anxiety and depression was mainly psychological. In other words: it’s all in our heads. But as research has grown, we gained a better understanding of how the brain works and how the brain and the nervous system interacts with the rest of the body. We now know that pain shares some biological mechanisms with anxiety and depression. Neither pain or depression has a singular pathophysiology. Chronic pain and the stress response it leads to disrupts your body’s natural chemical balance which can lead to depression in some individuals.

But why should we care about this link? The answer is that comorbidity (the co-existence of disease in one person) among chronic pain, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, cognitive impairment, fatigue, and chronic stress presents an enormous clinical challenge. What came first: The chicken or the egg? Did depression and anxiety cause your chronic pain or did your chronic pain lead to depression and anxiety? Physical and mental health go hand in hand and by addressing both, you can take control of your well-being and that is what we need to understand and focus on.

Here at Physio by Lani, we are focussed on treating the patient holistically and would love to get you back to feeling like your old self. We are so passionate about how good biomechanics and an active lifestyle can help you, not just physically, but mentally as well. You can get help before your symptoms worsen and treatment can help you enjoy life again. It’s never too late to start.

Due to circumstances (the cold season intensifying and, of course, the pandemic), we at Physio by Lani would like to remind you of the link between pain and the immune system.

Our bodies are designed so that all systems can function together to give life to a well-oiled machine in order to stay healthy and pain free. Because of this, no system can function in isolation (excuse the pun).

Research has shown that pain (especially chronic pain) can trigger a stress response within the body. The stress response is a combination of neurological (nerves), endocrine (hormones) and immune system activity to protect the body against perceived danger.

The nervous system will detect mechanical dysfunction, inflammation and mal-alignment and give the warning sign which we perceive as the annoying and sometimes debilitating, yet crucial sensation: PAIN! Which then initiates the stress response. If the stress response persists, cortisol (the stress hormone) levels will start to rise which causes a decrease in immune system function.

To give your immune system the best fighting chance: protect yourself by managing pain and resolving mechanical dysfunction, eat well, get plenty of sleep and stay active.

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We are open!

Please feel free to contact us to book an appointment. We can't wait to see you!

Over the last few days, including this past weekend, Lani Alberts attended a Peripheral and Spinal Manipulation course in Cape Town.

At Physio by Lani we believe in giving our clients the best service!

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