Lesley Meyer
Physiotherapist & Author

What to do and how to set up your work station to prevent pain when working from home.

What are the 5 things that you can do to help your back pain and degeneration, so you can age quietly?

Our posture while sitting or sleeping is very important to help prevent pain. We must maintain a neutral posture at all times and break regularly to change our position.

Bilharzia can cause severe chronic pain including, migraines, body pain, poor concentration, gut pain with bloating, diarrhea or constipation, severe fatigue and poor concentration. It can be tested with blood, urine or stool analysis and is treatable. Bilharzia is absorbed through the skin if you are exposed to it through fishing, swimming in dams, being exposed to dirty, infected water. It can live for longer than 30 years in your body. Most water supplies in SA are contaminated.

Every year we vow to change our habits and become healthier. New years resolutions should be done differently. It is more about setting goals of things we would like to do or have and focusing on achieving those instead of doing something we find difficult to stick with. It's the little changes that make a difference.

Lesley Meyer, Physiotherapist special interested Chronic pain reflects on National Physiotherapy Back Week and on dealing with back pain, back injuries, spinal surgery and recovery process.

Lesley Meyer, Physiotherapist with special interest in Chronic Pain and Health & Wellness on all things you need to know about gout and & how you can naturally treat gout.

Pain can become debilitating. It is very important to treat your pain until it reduces so that you can change your lifestyle to enable you to maintain the improvement.

The various podcasts were created for the listeners to get a deeper understanding of the different professions. Today we talk to Lesley on physiotherapy and the things she has done in her career.

It is important to keep our knees strong to prevent pain and poor range of movement.

Pain causes weakness and weakness causes pain. It is very important to ensure you exercise to strengthen your back but you may need to pace yourself or change the exercise you are doing.

Everyone suffers from stress including children. Having a good support system and goals set in pace and help reduce your stress.

Physiotherapist, Special interest in chronic pain, health and wellness, Lesley Meyer for a better understanding of cervicogenic headaches and some of the techniques of treating cervicogenic headaches.

Instead of complaining about the things that are wrong in your life, why don't you be part of the change to make things right?

Lesley provided a motivational speech via zoom for Eskom for Women's day. The theme: "Filling our love tanks and finding balance"

Gardening offers a lot of pleasure and is a stress relieving activity. Lesley has decided to be part of the change and to go out into her neighbourhood and beautify the areas one by one. Her first project is the Clubview Post office.

Before you apply at universities, it is important to be sure that the profession you want to do is suitable for you and will make you happy.

23 April, World book day, Lesley Meyer was invited to launch her books she had written during lockdown. her books in the "Help Me Cope series" was well depicted in their collage. The launch was via a virtual platform where she could share her books with other authors and LIASA.

Lesley offers online seminars as well as motivational talks. Eskom has been one of the companies who have used her skills to educate their people.

My books from the series "Help Me COPE" was delivered to the National Library of SA in June 2021 to become part of the books shared to those who frequent their library.