We are lucky for this blog to have a guest helping to outline some common knee problems that cause pain and difficulty for many patients we see! Let us hand over to Mathew Foster from kneesafe.com: Types of Knee Pain: An Overview Knee pain is a...
Fancy a can of Coke? Got any Sellotape for this parcel? Time to Hoover the carpet? What’s the similarity in these statements? Well, we all know what we mean when we ask for a Coke, when someone asks for Sellotape or we’re told to do the...
Many of our patients, especially those with low back pain, are concerned that they have weak core muscles, and that weakness in this area has either contributed to their current pain or will predispose them to more pain in the future. This is a topic that...
Many patients suffer from conditions that are typified by long-term inflammation, for example, many types of arthritis and certain bowel conditions. Modern research also highlights the fact that prolonged periods of inflammation are involved in the early stages of many conditions such as heart disease, Alzheimer’s...
We get lots of enquiries in the clinic for sports injuries. We also get lots of people searching online for treatment for their sporting injury. But when we recently made a new website we didn't add a page about sports injuries. Why on earth not?! Well,...
What are we talking about? Well, gardening, of course! Gardening injuries become increasingly common in the late spring as weeds are tackled, pots planted, and soil turned over, and we see plenty of gardening-induced low back, knee and shoulder injuries in the clinic as a...
The subject for this blog is ankle injury; in particular, the typical twisted ankle. Everyone has probably experienced this at some point, whether from sports, slippery surfaces, or simply missing the kerb. The most typical damage caused by twisting an ankle is an inversion sprain, whereby...