Ankle sprains. It’s a biggie. For sporting types and those how don’t too. Over half of ankle sprains happen in sport. Which is a lot. But that also means just less the 50% happen to the less sporting part of the population. In fact some of the more serious ankle sprains we see occur in…
Following on from last months post – Physiotherapy vs Surgery – we delve into a little more detail into specific conditions to help you decide if surgery is the right way forwards. Either now, or in the future. For each condition I’ll give an opinion as to whether the many surgeries I have seen over the…
Quite literally the million, or even billion, dollar question. When should you have surgery and when should you avoid it like the plague? Physiotherapists and surgeons frequently work together to help people recover from their injuries. But at the heart of this relationship is a conflict. One group of professionals are doing everything they can…
At the clinic we use a lot of yoga to complement what we do. We release you off so you are able to move more freely. Yoga is a great way to maintain this and even reach the parts we physically can’t. Yoga is of course known for it’s stretching. Physiotherapy is also known for…
For this month’s Blog I wanted to take on a toughie. I wanted to try to unravel the truth behind the effectiveness of joint replacements. Why? Because after 14 years I’m even more interested, intrigued and perplexed by the subject than ever before. Sometimes they work just amazingly and sometimes they just don’t. How can…
Delayed Onset Muscles Soreness (DOMS) is one of the enigmas of the Physiotherapy world. Just what exactly is it? We’ve all been there for sure. Maybe you’ve played football for the first time in a year. Perhaps you’ve gone for it too much in the gym. Or the ultimate. Having to walk backwards down the…
As a Sports Therapists using Physiotherapy techniques I am often asked when I fix people “Is this just the placebo effect?” I find it ironic that it’s the people that are on the receiving end of the treatment that don’t know whether it’s placebo or not! After all it’s their brain that’s making them…
This weeks Blog has been inspired by a recent influx of people to the clinic who have previously been diagnosed with hyper-mobility syndrome. Sounds scary eh? Not to us. In fact I’m not sure it means anything at all really. Remember anything with syndrome on is the medical professions way of confessing up and saying…
Many of us, including yours truly, have had car accidents. Some of us major – like hitting a tree square on at 50 MPH – some of us minor – like being shunted from behind by your partner on the drive! Some of us will have severe whiplash type symptoms, some of us will have…