muscle tears Tag

14 Mar The Greatest Debate of them all – part 2: Heat

Posted at 13:56h in Acupuncture, Back Pain, Injuries, Management of Injuries, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy, Sports Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Massage Therapy by Toby Pollard-Smith 0 Comments

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Following on from our recent blog about using ice to help injuries, it’s time to follow this up with the other side of the debate: heat. Thankfully, this topic is a bit simpler! For a simple start, heat is good for muscles. Specifically, it helps to soothe...

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23 May The Most Dangerous Sport of Them All…

Posted at 14:07h in Uncategorized by Toby Pollard-Smith 0 Comments

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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...

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14 Feb 7 Problems with Imaging

Posted at 00:00h in Back Pain, Hip Pain, Neck Pain, Physiotherapy by jaijo 0 Comments

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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...

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18 Nov Some Thoughts on Rotation

Posted at 00:00h in Elbow & Wrist Pain, Osteopathy, Shoulder Pain by jaijo 0 Comments

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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...

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22 Mar More About Massage… How? Why? When?

Posted at 00:00h in Sports Massage Therapy by jaijo 0 Comments

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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...

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09 Mar Sports massage? Soft tissue therapy? What’s the difference?

Posted at 00:00h in Sports Massage Therapy by jaijo 0 Comments

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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...

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18 Jan The three Rs!

Posted at 00:00h in Back Pain, Neck Pain, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy by jaijo 0 Comments

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  [caption id="attachment_851" align="alignright" width="300"] Joints in the lumbar spine can radiate pain through the back, and into the glutes and thighs[/caption] Patients usually come to see us here at Openhealth because they're in pain. Our job as therapists is to understand the root cause of that...

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05 Aug Super Saturday!

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Don't even bother looking through this blog for any interesting info on muscle tears, back pain or ligament ruptures - you won't find it! The achievements of Team GB yesterday (in particular) was totally astounding. Above all else what makes me so proud of their performances...

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