Life without pain and dysfunction is possible.

What’s happening to me?  

Ok here's the deal. After a session at the gym you walk home and all of a sudden you feel something give, pain shoots through your body and movement suddenly becomes difficult.  For some it might be a round of golf or maybe just an afternoon gardening. Either way, you being to question your pain and ongoing lifestyle… continuing with sports, playing with the kids even just enjoying everyday life. This is a common scenario and common thought process when your muscles go into spasm and your joints hurt.
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What now? 

The most logical next step people take is a visit to the general practitioner.  By the time you get into your consultation you're convinced that your life is on a fast-track downward spiral.  Then you hear the ominous words  "Ahhh, you're in your thirties, you're getting on a bit, it's around this time that your body starts breaking down”.You are sent off for scans, perhaps a Cortisone injection,  a course of anti-inflammatories, Xrays, CT scans or maybe an MRI. Days off work are complimented with a course of pain killers, anti-inflammatory drugs or even muscle relaxants. You can't sleep because of the pain and your discomfort makes simple tasks such as getting to the bathroom difficult. 

‍Feeling helpless is common
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It's around this time that you start feeling a little despondent even depressed. Feelings of helplessness is common and many compensate with unhealthy eating habits of potato chips, lollies, fizzy soft drinks or caffeine. These may make you feel a little bit better but we know they are not helping your condition. Sugar and junk food toxins makes muscles tighter, more constricted and unable to get the proper blood flow and nutrients needed to function. Combined with lack of movement and it's a wonder you can muster the strength to go to the toilet.  

The diagnosis merry-go-round
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Your follow up results can be confusing,vague and unresolved. Is it a disease, condition or a syndrome? You feel bamboozled with names like degenerative disk disease, prolapsed or sequestered disk, ligament dysfunction, facet syndrome, facet joint disease, spurring, arthritis, spinal stenosis, nerve impingement syndrome. sciatica or piriformis syndrome.  The list goes on… and the medical merry-go-round starts.

For some the next step is physiotherapy, an ultrasound or electronic therapy. Stretching exercises are prescribed and pilates is advised as the only path to recovery. After six weeks of physiotherapy some of the pain and discomfort has subsided and your core feels a little stronger. However, something is still not right. You still feel tender and afraid to do something that might aggravate your injury.  You go back to the doctor, back to the gym and back to square one with pain and discomfort.
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A feeling of helplessness leads many to seek help from a chiropractor (that comes highly recommended by your friend) or an osteopath,  an acupuncturist … and …. on it goes. Months later and hundreds of dollars out of pocket and not much has changed.   

Stop right there, help is here!

Understanding the cause of pain
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A high percentage of people’s pain stems from tight unbalanced (contracted or lengthened) muscles, connective tissue or restricted immobile feet and joints. These condition if left untreated lead to a rotated, hiked or shifted pelvis. This muscle- connective tissue imbalance, joint and pelvic dysfunction can be the cause ofany number of postural pain dysfunctions and syndromes.

When tight muscles and pelvic dysfunctions are left untreated these imbalances can and do lead to 'degenerative joint conditions’. Tight unbalanced muscles unevenly exert pressure on the body's joints, ligaments, tendons and discs. These same tight muscles force neighboring vertebrae together. This forced compaction is enough to cause pinched nerve roots that exit the spinal canal, causing pain and numbness in the extremities.  This can also cause the vertebrae and pelvis to ‘twist' out of alignment. When the spinal vertebrae are pulled closely together, discs between the vertebrae may get ‘squeezed’ and eventually break down (bulge or rupture) from long-term compressive pressures.

Untreated muscle tightness and dysfunction can also alter the movement of other joints in the body including hips, knees and ankles. This leads to further injuries and bodily compensations that will eventually cause joints to break down.
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 Correcting balance for pain relief 

Correcting the balance of your body’s muscle and ligaments leads to better movement and no pain.  To make it simple to understand:

(a) The muscles, ligaments and joints on the right side of your body are the same as the muscles on the left side of your body. They have to be the same tension and length. If not, imbalance problems arise.

(b) The muscles, ligaments and joints on the back of your body, although different to the those on the front, still have to work together. They need to have equal strength, position and tension.  If some are stronger than others -  imbalance problems occur. This imbalance not only affects your back it will affect other joints in your body. 

Correcting this imbalance works for back pain as well as pain elsewhere in the body. By using the principles of getting your body balanced and moving correctly,  pain dissipates. Thousands of people have been treated by Wayne and those people remain pain free.
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Eliminate pain
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Take a step towards being pain free.  

Make a booking with Wayne at Fusion Physical Therapy. 

Wayne Stafford is the principal practitioner at Fusion Physical Therapy and has had a lifelong passion for boxing, martial arts and strength training. His teenage years saw him and a mate sneaking off on their bikes after school (as their mothers did not approve) to a boxing gym several suburbs away. The knocks and bruises were explained away as wrestling injuries and bike falls.  This early experience and the "Bruce Lee Kung Fu" phenomenon around the time led him into karate and the early days of kickboxing. From there it has been a continuing journey through the Chinese, Thai, Russian and Japanese martial arts, both in empty hand and weaponry plus many years of strength training, bodybuilding, powerlifting, yoga practice and teaching. Wayne was also a long-time Rugby Union player at both club and state level. ​And he still trains 7 days a week.

Professional history
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Wayne provides specialised Musculoskeletal Therapy and Clinical Myotherapy treatments. He continues to draw on latest knowledge and best practice to improve his skills.

This includes training with notable therapists:
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Gary Ward and Chris Sritharan - Anatomy in Motion (Developed by Gary Ward)
Carl Alexander - Proprioceptive Deep Tendon Reflex P-DTR (Developed by Dr. JosePalomar)
Julie Ann Day, Dr. Carla Stecco and Dr. Luigi Stecco-Fascial Manipulation (Developed by Dr. Luigi Stecco)
Dr. Stefan Ankar - Fascial Distortion Model
Dr. Kathy Dooley and Thomas Wells - Neurokinetic Therapy (Developed by David Weinstock)
Dr. Kyle Kiesel - FMS and SFMA (Delevloped by Gray Cook and Lee Burton)
Steve Lockhart - SLM Bodywork
Dr. James Murray and Jan Wanklyn - Active Release Technique (Developed by Dr. P.Michael Leahy)
Dr. Paul Conneely - Advanced Musculoskeletal Training
Alastair McLoughlin - McLoughlin Scar Tissue Release
Thomas Myers - Anatomy Trains
Lester Cox - Cox Tendon and Ligament Manipulation
Thomas Zudrell - Dorn Therapy
Paul Davies - Goltech Muscle and Tendon Manipulation
Charles and Vicki Tuchtan - Australian Institute
Dr. Syed Hussain and Dr. Adam Vounoridis – Fascial Counterstrain (Developed by Brian Tuckey) 

A unique approach to pain management
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Wayne's thirst for knowledge and professional development takes him around the world to train with the best industry practitioners.  He believes that poor gait and movement patterns coupled with poor mobility and motor control results in nerve entrapment, tight adherent joints, muscles, tendons and fascia. These are the causes of most pain and disease states of the body.

By incorporating specialist treatment that essentially "balances" the body, Wayne works to increase mobility, correct movement patterns, re-set muscles to the correct length and tension through the nervous system.

He explores body strengthening to release tight adhered fascia and put tendons, ligaments and joints back where they should be, which in turn, reduces pain, improves movement patterns, enhances mobility and restores the natural flow of blood and lymphatic fluid. Once your body is strengthened and lengthened to its correct movement patterns, he works to ensure your body is re-programmed and correct movement is remembered.

Help your body to move again
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Wayne is often described as "the person who fixes the problems everyone else has given up on” .

If you are in pain we are ready to help you get your body moving again. 

Fix your pain - make a booking with Wayne at Fusion Physical Therapy.


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