Latest Blog Posts

Title :	Low Back Pain Relief from Talking Therapy
Content :	Group therapy, involving the now fashionable "talking therapy" has been shown to be effective and cheap in managing low back pain, as reported in BBC Health. Reported in ... More

Title :	Spine Fusion Back Surgery May Leave Patients Worse Off
Content :	Spine fusion back surgeries, mostly performed for chronic back pain, have been shown to lead to increased rates of permanent disability in a recent study reported in the journal Spine. Researchers ... More

Title :	Physiotherapy Effective For Rotator Cuff Tears and Shoulder Pain
Content :	Physiotherapy can benefit most patients with full thickness rotator cuff tears and shoulder pain, avoiding the requirement for surgery, report researchers from Nashville, Tennessee at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). ... More

Title :	Fake Physiotherapists Number 100,000 in Italy!
Content :	There are 100,000 false physiotherapists in Italy, reported recently in the Italian media. This is twice the number of real physios so a large number of patients in Italy may find themselves in the hands of an unqualified person. This poses risks for patients as ... More

Title :	Stretching Exercises for Running No Help
Content :	A recent study, soon to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, suggests that stretching before running does not reduce the risk of injury. This has been featured on the ... More

Title :	Osteoarthritis (OA) after Joint Fracture
Content :	If you fracture a joint there is a relatively high chance that you will develop a degree of osteoarthritis in the years that follow. Why exactly this is so is not clear, but around 12% of people with ankle, knee or hip OA have had previous injury to their ... More

Title :	Arm Pain Physio Trial to Start Soon
Content :	Lower arm pain is suffered by a large number of people and work days lost every year stand at five million days. This is from a combination of conditions such as neck pain and arm pain, RSI or repetitive strain injury, tendonitis, golfers elbow and tennis ... More

Title :	Do NOT Look Away to Reduce Injection Pain?
Content :	We are taught from when we are young that looking away from a painful procedure such as wound care or an injection is better from a pain point of view. However, recent research indicates this may not be the case and looking at the part in question may actually ... More

Title :	Broken Hip Surgery in Elderly Delayed But Improving
Content :	Age UK has compiled a survey from the National Hip Fracture Database which 90% of hospitals contribute to. It claims that this shows that one in five elderly persons with a hip fracture is not being operated on soon enough. This is reported by BBC ... More

Title :	Listening To Knee Osteoarthritis May Help Knee Pain
Content :	UK researchers have developed an acoustic device which listens to the sounds noisy knees make and could screen for early onset of osteoarthritis or OA. Millions of people suffer from osteoarthritis of the knees in the world and the treatment and management of this condition is very expensive and difficult. An ... More