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...
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...
To many people, imaging techniques seem to be the last word in finding out what is wrong with them. In many cases, such investigations, such as X-ray, CT and MRI, can indeed identify the cause of illness or disease, but when it comes to musculoskeletal...
One of the movements that our practitioners look at with a lot of our patients is the ability to rotate. Can you rotate when you need to? Or are you rotating too much when you shouldn't? Often, our patients tell us that they do some rotation...
Breathing is, needless to say, rather important. We need to take air in so that the oxygen can be absorbed into our blood and delivered to our muscles, organs and brain. Once respiratory processes have completed, we then need to get rid of the waste...
It’s time for a blog entry about osteopathy, and to be honest I’ve been nervous about it. This is because osteopathy is different from osteopath to osteopath, and some osteopaths can get quite vitriolic when they come across a version of osteopathy that is inconsistent...
With marathon season just around the corner it is important to make sure your body is in peak condition. Although stretching and foam rolling are great ways to maintain muscle health, they can’t get to some of the deeper fibres that often need attention. This...
Most people have heard of sports massage nowadays. The name is a bit of a misnomer however. Sports massage is different from other forms of massage because it targets muscles [caption id="attachment_813" align="alignright" width="300"] Soft Tissue Therapy can get to bits you can't stretch...
Nothing is more enjoyable than running those extra miles on the road or working hard at the gym. Even getting out for a daily walk or a round of golf can be the tonic for modern life. However, to do these activities we must be...