Exercise and activity essentials

Exercise and activity essentials

Being physically active and exercising regularly is an important part of living a healthy lifestyle. Research shows that 20mins of moderate levels of exercise or activity 5 days per week has many health benefits and can reduce your likelihood of illness and disease. Take a look at some simple and effective solutions to help get

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Healthy eating and drinking tips

These tips are a good way to check in with your daily habits and review what you are already doing and help you find easy solutions to make positive changes that can support your healthy living goals. Drinks Stay hydrated = how do you know if you are dehydrated? What does it feel like? How

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Healthy food guidelines and serving sizes

To ensure you are getting a balanced diet with the adequate amount of nutrition daily means taking a look at the food diversity and serving size on your plate. Use the following guidelines as a checklist to review your current eating habits; Choose a medium size plate or bowl to begin with (rather than a

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Weight management

Supporting the regulation of your weight to your optimal range supports your ability to prevent and manage chronic illnesses and diseases. Maintaining your optimal weight and monitoring where your body fat is stored can help you reduce the risk of chronic disease. Where your body fat is stored may indicate an increased risk for chronic

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Exercise Physiology MCHC 2019

Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre now has exercise physiology in its allied health offerings at the centre. Exercise Physiologists are university trained professionals specialising in chronic disease management who can help with physical rehab, tailored exercise programs and behavioural coaching among other support. Recognised by Medicare, Department of Veterans Affairs and other health funds, they prescribe

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Food as Medicine

How do we make our food become our medicine? Well lucky for us, we can easily access whole “real” food in Australia, which is what I consider medicine! Although there is certainly a lot of food currently available in Australia (and the world for that matter), that isn’t exactly what I would call ‘Medicine” as

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Emergencies

If you need a doctor urgently outside of our opening hours please call Byron District Hospital on 6639 9400.

For emergencies call 000 for an ambulance.

Urgent Care Clinic

On the day appointments are available by calling the surgery from 8am onwards until slots are filled. We recommend calling early to secure an appointment.

Opening Hours

Medical Centre
Monday – Friday: 8.30 – 17.00
Saturday: 8.30 – 11.30

Allied Health
Monday – Friday: 8.30 – 17.00
Saturday: 8.30 – 11.30