Physiotherapy

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What is physiotherapy?

What does the treatment involve? Physiotherapy uses a variety of techniques to help your muscles and joints work to their full potential. It can help repair damage by speeding up the healing process and reducing pain and stiffness. Physiotherapists also have an important role in rehabilitation, for example, helping people who have had strokes to relearn basic movements. However, physiotherapists don’t just offer treatment; their advice can help you prevent problems from returning or even from happening in the first place.

Your physiotherapist will assess your condition, diagnose the problem, and help you understand what’s wrong. The physiotherapist will work with you to develop a treatment plan suitable to your lifestyle, leisure activities, and general health. This will include specific advice on how you can help yourself. Where appropriate, physiotherapists also advise carers in how they can help.

• Exercise programmes designed to improve mobility and strengthen muscles
• Deep tissue massage
• Joint manipulation and mobilisation to reduce pain and stiffness
• Muscle re-education
• Dry needling, to speed up recovery
• Pilates

Throughout the treatment programme, the physiotherapist will evaluate your progress at regular intervals and modify your treatment and goals when necessary. Your physiotherapist will work with you to help you learn to manage your condition independently for the longer term.

Neck pain

Modern living has confined the majority of us to static environments, such as desk bound jobs, leading to poor postural habits. These postural habits can lead to neck pain originating from the muscle, nerve, discs or ligaments, and to headaches, originating from the neck. Physiotherapy can alleviate the symptoms of neck pain through soft tissue techniques and rehabilitation designed to ensure a more mechanically efficient posture. 

Low back pain

Our back is a complex structure of joints, nerves, muscles, discs, ligaments and fascia all interacting through movement to allow us achieve our daily tasks. A deficiency in any one of these areas may present an issue. Low back pain is hugely debilitating and has major consequences in life, work and sport. 

Physiotherapy directed at solving the source of the symptoms of your back pain and maintaining these gains through specific exercise for you is our focus.

Sports injuries

Whether you are a weekend warrior or an elite athlete, sprains and strains are part and parcel of participation. Muscle and tendon injuries, ligament sprains, repetitive strain injuries, muscle imbalances and postural dysfunction can interrupt sporting performance at the most inopportune time. Our specialist sports physiotherapist can tailor a recovery programme to manage your acute injury to ensure the swiftest return to your chosen sport.

Orthopedic physiotherapy

Post surgery, our goal is to ensure you return to your highest level of functioning within the shortest period of time. High quality hands on treatment and customised rehabilitation to decrease pain and stiffness, and accelerate your recovery are key elements in your return to function. Post natal physiotherapy Post pregnancy, the stability muscles of the lower back and pelvis weaken considerably. Our female physiotherapist can design a treatment plan to ensure lower back and pelvic pain post pregnancy are minimised allowing you to get back to your full fitness as soon as possible.

Orthotics

Orthotics, when used correctly, can assist in alleviating foot, shin, knee and hip pain. Our advanced GaitScan system uses a sensitive walking platform to determine the distribution of force in your foot and identify abnormalities. Through a combination of a thorough foot assessment, evaluation of your clinical presentation, and a Gaitscan we can determine whether an orthotic insole would be suitable for your problem