by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Condition That Teaches You Patience Of all the conditions I see in my Rose Bay clinic, frozen shoulder is the one that has taught me the most about the difference between doing something and doing the right thing. I’ve seen patients pushed through aggressive...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Back Pain in Sydney: What I Actually See Every Day Growing up playing competitive tennis at a national junior level, I developed a personal and somewhat unwelcome familiarity with lower back pain early in life. That experience shaped why I eventually chose to...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Not All Headaches Are the Same, and That Changes Everything Last month I had a patient in her early forties come in after seeing two GPs and a neurologist over the course of a year. She’d been getting headaches three or four times a week, almost always starting...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Runner Who Kept Treating the Wrong Thing She was a 34-year-old who ran three to four times a week along the coastal path from Rose Bay to Nielsen Park. Lateral knee pain, consistently worse after about the 4-kilometre mark. She’d been told it was her IT...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Sciatica Is Common, and Commonly Misunderstood A patient came to see me recently who had spent eight months working with a physiotherapist for what had been diagnosed as sciatica. She had an MRI showing a disc bulge at L4-L5, had been prescribed core exercises and...
by Gavin | Jun 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Fear That Keeps People from Getting Help Last month, a patient, a surfer from Bondi in his early forties, came in after more than a year of managing lower back pain on his own. He’d had chiropractic care once before, found the experience uncomfortable, and...
