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...
Nov 15, 2018
Knee Cap Pain/Patellofemoral pain, talking about the patella and where it matches with the femur underneath. Please watch the video as Shelley explains the features of the knee. The kneecap slides up and down in a notch, think about it as a railway track and the...
Nov 15, 2018
The scapula is very important in shoulder stability. We as Physiotherapists work with it a lot with people who have shoulder impingements or anterior shoulder pain. There are 3 different exercises that we teach to improve shoulder blade control and movement. The first...
Nov 9, 2018
Our muscles play an important role in the movement of our body. Without our muscles, we wouldn’t be able to bend our elbow or straighten our leg. As our muscles are soft and designed for flexibility, they are also prone to injury and if you have ever had a muscle...
Nov 7, 2018
Experiencing hip pain when putting on shoes? You may have osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis (or OA) is a degenerative condition affecting the cartilage surface of the bone. This is your ‘wear and tear’ arthritis, which commonly affects the hip joints, as well...
