Do you ever feel like there’s a tight knot in the muscles between your shoulder blades? That no matter how much you rub it, you just can’t seem to get rid of it? Then keep reading because this one is for you. Pain between the shoulder blades is a common presentation and if you’ve ever...
Myofascial release therapy is a technique used by qualified massage therapists to relieve pain and muscle tension related to fascial immobility. To understand how this therapy works, let me explain what fascia is and the role that it plays in everyday life. Fascia is the connective tissue that weaves continuously throughout the entire body, surrounding...
Raise your hand if you have shoulder bursitis. Ouch! Acute shoulder pain makes up 16% of the injuries that physiotherapists see each month. On many occasions, people with shoulder pain are referred for imaging such as ultrasound or MRI. But did you know that more than 25% of shoulders WITHOUT pain, show shoulder abnormalities on...
We’ve all experienced headaches before, and we all know that there’s nothing worse than not being able to concentrate, or carry out our daily lives without headache pain. Migraine, tension headache and cluster headaches are all commonly heard of in the medical world, but did you know there is another type of headache: Cervicogenic...
With summer slowly coming to an end and winter athletes transitioning from pre-season training to competition we are starting to see an increase in sports-related injuries presenting to the clinic. One of the most common presentations is an ankle sprain or “rolled ankle”. It was previously believed that ankle sprains are a “self-limiting injury” meaning...
Tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis/ epicondylalgia is quite a common injury which is treated by physiotherapists. Surprisingly, most people with tennis elbow do not play tennis, and instead their pain is caused by either direct trauma or repeated stressors placed on an elbow tendon causing a tendinopathy. Patients typically report their pain as a pulling...
As Physiotherapists, one of the most common complaints our clients will seek treatment for is chronic lower back pain which is pain that either has lasted longer than a few months without settling; or repeat recurrences of the same lower back pain over a prolonged period of time. There is lots of evidence that exercise...
Vertigo is a relatively common complaint, and when it starts suddenly can be quite distressing. There are many causes of vertigo, with one particular type being commonly treated by physiotherapists known as Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo or BPPV. BPPV will typically produce brief periods of feelings of dizziness or spinning, which can range from mild...
Whether you have just survived the Avon Descent, are getting ready for the summer sprint season, or simply enjoy getting out for a paddle, kayaking is a great sport to improve your whole-body strength and fitness - and compared to most other sports it has a low risk of injury. However, this doesn’t mean...
A calf strain is an injury to the muscles of the back of the leg. The calf consists of the two headed gastrocnemius and the always forgotten soleus muscle which sits deeper near the Achilles tendon. Calf strains are most commonly found in the medial head of the gastrocnemius. The Gastrocnemius is commonly injured in sports which require quick acceleration from a...
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