The Defibrillator

A fibrillation can be described as muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibres acting without coordination. In the heart this is caused by the electrical charges that make the heartbeat become irregular and rapid. If untreated, fibrillation can lead to cardiac arrest, also known as myocardial infarction, and death. The defibrillator, if used as soon as […]

Chronic Pain

One in every five Australians suffer from chronic pain.  Whether it is the slice of a paper cut, the crack of a broken bone, the throb of a headache or an ache that niggles in your back, pain serves an important purpose.  It warns us when we are injured or when something is not quite right.  Pain is a subjective topic and a patient’s experience of pain can involve all kinds of social, emotional and physiological factors, all of which make pain a highly complex biological phenomenon. 

Foot Conditions

Our feet and ankle joints have to bear the weight of our entire body with every step that we take, and when we are aiming for 10,000 steps per day, that is a lot of movement and stress. As a result, our feet are susceptible to many different injuries and foot conditions which are caused […]

The Respiratory System

We need oxygen to keep our bodies functioning on a cellular level, and the respiratory system is the part of the body that enables this to happen. The respiratory system is a group of organs and tissues that enable us to breathe. The main parts of this system are the lungs, the airways, and the […]

3D Printing in Medicine

Summary 3D printing is enhancing and improving the medical industry with new developments every year. The versatility of 3D printing has resulted in progression in many areas of medicine from ophthalmology to surgery and cardiology.Bioprinting is an extension of traditional 3D printing. Bioprinting can produce living tissue, bone, blood vessels and, potentially whole organs, using […]

The Foot

Summary Did you know that a quarter of the bones in the human body are in the feet? Each foot is made up of twenty six bones, thirty joints and more than one hundred muscles, tendons and ligaments, all of which work together to provide support, balance and mobility, allowing us to stand upright and […]