Mar 8, 2019
I was just reading about types of low back pain, and it got me thinking about some of the advice that people tell us they have received from other therapists or medically trained persons and it drives me crazy. So, I’ve decided to get it straightened out! The worst...
Jan 31, 2019
The squat exercise is a very important exercise and is involved in a lot of rehabilitation programmes for injuries. Performing squats correctly benefits your core and your leg muscles, building strength and keeping you healthy. What you don’t want to be doing is...
Jan 16, 2019
Rotator Cuff Strengthening Exercises For Maintaining Muscles How Does Rotator Cuff Impingement Occur? The rotator cuff is a bundle of muscles around the shoulder that provide strength and stability during movement. The muscles arise from the shoulder blade over the...
Dec 13, 2018
How to Lift Items the Correct Way Most people have heard that to protect your back while lifting and bending you need to bend your knees. If you have tried this you will have found that taken literally it’s not very practical. Not only is it very hard on your...
Dec 13, 2018
Trigger Point Dry Needling Trigger point dry needling is a technique that we use to help reduce, or eliminate the pain caused by trigger points in the muscle. A trigger point (also commonly talked about as a knot) is a taut band in your muscle that is hyperirritable....
Dec 10, 2018
Low back pain is the most commonly treated condition by physiotherapists and if you have been unlucky enough to experience it, you know that severe back pain can really influence your day to day life. Today Ellen is going to talk to you about some common myths with...
Nov 29, 2018
Focus is another strategy that we use as physiotherapists to help you manage your chronic pain. To understand how this helps, you need to understand how the brain changes when you have pain for a long time. So, when you have ongoing pain, you get a sensitisation of...
Nov 29, 2018
Treating chronic pain from a physiotherapy perspective involves the use of various treatment strategies Pacing Mindfulness Focus Strengthening the body Today, we are discussing Pacing. Pacing is controlling the amount of activity that you do in a day, and over a...
Nov 29, 2018
Chronic pain is a very complex problem and understanding why your injury has become chronic can be challenging. Lots of people ask why their pain became chronic whilst someone they know who had the exact same injury healed quickly. New research has helped with our...
