For all of us late Baby Boomers and our struggles into this brave new world!

At the ripe age of ... (sorry did you think that the female sex discloses that horrid bit of information!) I have decided to launch into this century, and the social media that has become second nature to children of all ages. Why I was enjoying my daily soy flat white with a girlfriend whilst her 18 month old daughter was happily pawing over the photos on Marian's IPhone and at the same time managing to finger the soft bubbles of her baby chino into a mouth covered with that chocolate dusting powder, showing multi-tasking at its very best. On the other side of the scales my 85 year old mother eagerly gets up and turns on her IPad feverishly waiting for the time sheets to download so that she can get the pick of positions and players for the next week at her Golf Club.


Now it seems that I am faced with more people looking at the world wide web for their wants and needs, and my wants and needs include paying off my mortgage and giving my children all that they desire. At this stage my close friends are laughing as they know my kids have all grown up in the school of "hard knocks"!


It is the realisation that I must advertise my expertise within a forum that is both foreign to me (what exactly happened to the White and Yellow pages I ask you) and, as it appears, as mobile as the lava running down Mt Vesuvius.


People get broken every day and my expertise it to mend to the best of my ability, and I'm pretty darn good at it I gotta say. Just ask the many happy people that limp into my clinic and bound out afterwards my clinic is at Wavell Heights and all the details can be found on by website http://www.yourmusculoskeletalspecialist.com


I am a Musculoskeletal Therapist, to which most people say "a what??" imagine a Remedial massage therapist, a Physiotherapist and an Osteopath all running into each other, well that's sort of the best descriptive term for me.I was a Remedial massage therapist, a personal trainer, an aerobic instructor and a Registered Nurse but none of those are relevant to this new art of both Bloggery and marketing on the www.


I am hoping to give you two things, one which is my knowledge and most likely the passion and drive that goes with my work, and two my frustration in how someone my age manages to learn new tricks in IT!!!


Please enjoy the readings and I hope to make you laugh at the very least and learn at the very most.


Cheers
Paula

Stretching, stretching and more stretching...

Stay loose to stay lovely says the muscles

When one is in the search for the fountain of youth the last thing we need is the creeping in of that morning stiffness, that so mysteriously targets the lower back, neck and shoulders.

I don't know about you but I certainly do not remember waking up in my teens any other way than at a full spring, bounding out to meet all that the day could throw at me. Now it feels like the spring has sprung! This apparently is a very common sign of our internal cellular aging but one that can be addressed very easily.


It is extremely difficult to deny the onset of the aging process if you are not prepared to get off you "hiny" and do something about it. Make no mistake if you sit for long hours at work in front of that time vampire otherwise known as  the computer, in the car behind the steering wheel or at home like a couch potato blankly staring at the "idiot-box" then sure as eggs your body will stiffen up and each muscle fibre will hint at you as to what is to come.

The muscles around the hips, knees and shoulders will shrink to their new lazy/idle length. This produces the pulling at the lower back, reduced range of movement in any number of areas but commonly in your neck, ribcage and shoulders and stiffness with the potential addition of pain each time you leave yourself in one position for to long.

Check out my video for some awesome tips how to stretch out for strength, stability and suppleness of that all important "core" muscle group.

When those muscles return to normal pre-ancient length, so too will that spring in your step, that bounce in your body, the vim, vigour and youthful vitality you felt from days when you really were the age you're now trying to convince your friends and peers.
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Are all computers like naughty siblings??

http://www.yourmusculoskeletalspecialist.com in a lather

In my family, and I use that term imaginatively, I have anywhere between 3 and 6 children. Most from Australia whom arrived via my womb but included in my clan are boys who hail from Brazil, Turkey, Spain, Japan and the list goes on. My current darlings set sail from Colombia and Saudi.

exporting should be reserved for international travel only!!

Now if you count the computers in your home making sure to include your Blackberry, IPhone or Android then the numbers add up. Why between my youngest who is 14 and has the matching attitude from hell, and myself we have 6 between us (disgusting I know). You can blame Education Queensland for 2 of them and my National presenting for 1 more and of course the trusty Blackberry that hooks onto my hip like a pederast.

So with multiple sources of IT communication to deal with, there comes the equivalent level of sharing of very valuable information and this is where it gets tricky!! 
I take bookings from any one of these beastly devices and need them to happily share and impart their knowledge fairly so that I don't become unstuck with multiple bookings. Trust me no-one wants to make the effort to climb out of their cosy bed, show up at my clinic at the crack of dawn, just to see another of my walking wounded patiently waiting for their ailments to be addressed.


Does anyone have half a clue how to export and import ANYTHING from Microsoft Office?? I mean don't get me wrong, I love the power, ease and control that Bill Gates has given me but to what end of hair greying and brow creasing do I say enough is enough?


Exporting and importing should be reserved for my great friend Tracey's voluminous shoe collection and not for  a few simple calendar or address details, shouldn't it??? If anyone can take a well educated, intelligent, forward thinking girl like me and step me through what should be  a simple process then I am more than happy, and eager to take up your challenge. But until then bring on the Prozac!!!