Hats of Lesley: Physiotherapist

Discover safe post-operative exercises and expert tips from a physiotherapist. Watch this 15-minute podcast interview to learn what to do—and avoid—after surgery.

Listen to the Ashes to Ashes podcast by Lesley, a physiotherapist and trauma-informed healer. Discover how chronic illness, chronic pain, anxiety, and depression often stem from unresolved trauma, and how hands-on physiotherapy and emotional support can unlock true, long-term healing.

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Improve your mental health and environment by planting indigenous gardens. Lesley Meyer’s Clubview Post Office project shows how small efforts can spark community transformation and support local biodiversity.

Prevent neck and back pain while working from home with simple ergonomic tips. Support your spine, align your posture, elevate your screen, and take frequent movement breaks to stay pain-free and productive.

In this empowering article from Mooikloof News, Lesley Meyer unpacks six foundational habits—Thinking, Breathing, Water Intake, Food Intake, Exercise, and Sleep—that quietly shape our health over time. Learn how small daily decisions and emotional healing practices like EFT can help you reclaim your vitality, break free from limiting beliefs, and live a life of lasting wellbeing. 📍 Featured in Mooikloof News | Written by Lesley Meyer, Physiotherapist & Lifestyle Coach

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.