Ankylosing Spondylitis (Axial spondyloarthritis) predominantly affects the spine With inflammatory changes causing pain, stiffness, and a loss of motion in the back. Physiotherapy aims to decrease pain, improve spinal mobility and functional capacity. Also to decrease [...]
Osteoarthritis vs Rheumatoid Arthritis? Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. It involves the wearing away of the cartilage that surrounds the bones in your joints. It is a degenerative disease. Rheumatoid arthritis is [...]
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis affects 1 in 1000 children. Symptoms include swollen, stiff and painful joints in the knees, hands, feet, ankles, shoulders, elbows, or other joints, often in the morning or after a nap. Patients [...]
Swine flu, Covid, bronchitis and sinusitis seem to be on the increase, and many of our patients have been really sick and booked off work for quite a long time. If there seems to be [...]
Many patients experience shoulder pain. Often the diagnosis is Rotator Cuff Tear or Frozen Shoulder, and patients are referred to the Orthopaedic surgeon for surgery. There are many causes of shoulder pain, and physiotherapy offers [...]
1 Back Pain is common and normal. Eighty percent of people will experience an episode of back pain during their lifetime. Most acute back pain is the result of simple strains or sprains and the [...]
Many people develop pain, pins and needles or numbness down the arm or in their hands or fingers. These symptoms are fairly common in people who work on computers. These symptoms can be very worrying, [...]
Headaches and migraines can be very debilitating and affect your ability to concentrate and maintain your standard of working. Many headaches have their origin in the neck or upper spine. These joints can refer pain [...]
In summer we get more active with exercise and more physical in the garden and around our homes, and our backs may play up and patients may experience pains in all parts of their spines. [...]
