This blog is by Toby, one of our Osteopaths. The topic is one that frequently comes up in clinic. A Guide to How Osteopathy and Physiotherapy Differ Two Tents People often ask what the difference is between osteopathy and physiotherapy. One of my biggest frustrations as an osteopath...
Research around low back pain is changing. It’s no longer all about treatment techniques or new exercises but rather explores what we know about patients suffering from persistent back pain, and how they interact with the world around them. We thought it would be useful...
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...
When patients come to us in pain, we want to know as much as possible about what has happened. One question we regularly ask is whether the patient has found anything that makes them feel better. We might prompt them with questions about whether heat...
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...
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,...
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...
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...