Now that season 1 of Diagnosis Health has wrapped we have raided the vaults to uncover the making of the "giant eyeball" episode. Stay tuned for season 2 of Diagnosis Health coming soon!
Physiotherapist Mark Alexander discusses a revolutionary new product for back pain relief, bakballs. Bakballs can provide pain relief and a physiotherapy treatment from your own home.
The King's Speech recently won the Oscar for "Best Picture" which has renewed interest in stuttering and the role of speech therapy or speech pathology in its treatment. Dr Susan Block from La Trobe's Communication Clinic discusses stuttering, it's causes, and techniques to manage stuttering from young children to adults.
Are Gen Y using Facebook and Twitter to set up online booty calls? Joni Meenagh discusses her research into how 18-25 year olds are using new media technologies like mobile phones and the Internet in their love/sex relationships. How are young people developing a personal sense of sexual ethics and what role is social media and technology playing in this?
In this episode of Diagnosis Health Mr Rowan English director of National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics discusses the latest advances in prosthetics. Are robotics the new prosthetics? What is the future in this area of rapidly advancing technology? A robotic arm without the prostetic is used to display the latest electronic advances.
What causes Bunions, could it be hereditary? In this episode of Diagnosis Health Associate Professor Hylton Menz explains what is a bunion, how they got the name bunions, and some new research which sheds light on the possible cause of bunions.
In this episode of Diagnosis Health Dr Meri Vukicevic discusses visual hallucinations and the Charles Bonnet syndrome. An example is given of someone whose visual hallucinations turned sinister after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia.