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11 Tips for Injury Free Spring Gardening
It's that time of year again and the thing outside needs attention. Not the dog, the garden. If it hasn't started growing already it will very soon do so. There's a lot of preparation to be done if we...
The mobility of our joints, the ability of them to move for greater or lesser amounts from fully bent to fully extended, is very variable. Some people are very stiff jointed while others are very mobi...
Be Careful About Guidelines " Part One"
Guidelines. Guidelines. Guidelines. We are inundated with guidelines, telling us how to do this, how to do that, how to manage this condition and that condition. Many clinical groups look like they ar...
Many medical and allied health professionals are concerned with the assessment and promotion of flexibility, including osteopathy, chiropractic and physiotherapy. Asanas, specialised techniques which ...
The weather in the northern hemisphere is beginning to warm up and spring turns people's minds to thoughts of fitness and sport. They look out their running shoes from the back of the wardrobe and get...
Ice and cold therapy is a widely used treatment technique employed routinely by physiotherapists in the management of acute and chronic conditions of various types. It is a relatively safe treatment a...
BUPAs Shock Pressure on Private Physiotherapy
Physiotherapists across the country are angry and disappointed at an attempt to drive their prices down by BUPA, the health insurance provider. The UK's largest private medical insurer has been conduc...
Rupture of the Quadriceps Tendon
It is not common for the quadriceps tendon to rupture and when it does it mostly presents in those older than 40 years. Certain diseases and previously existing degeneration in the knee extensor appar...
Minor ailments and aches and pains are often treated with superficial heat although this modality is much less commonly used by physiotherapists than it used to be. The heating effect is shallow as th...
Fractured neck of femur patients take up significant numbers of beds in hospitals in all the developed nations, as elderly people develop low bone density, especially women after the menopause. Less c...
Bone Fracture Internal Fixation
Broken bones have always been challenging to manage due to the severity of the acute disability, the level of the pain and the functionally important negative consequences which can ensue, ensur...
In the springtime we all start thinking about how we could be slimmer, fitter and look better for the summer, if we haven't already taken up a gym membership in January and let it lapse fairly q...
Fixation of Fractures " Part Two
If used for permanent fixation pins and wires are usually chosen if very little load is going through the fracture site or they are adding to the stability of a plate or an external fixator. Typ...
As children we have the great gift of a mobile, strong, well designed and painless spine and it is unusual for stiffness to be an issue as the lumbar spine has evolved to do the job of weight be...
Physiotherapy After A Total Hip Replacement
Total hip replacement has matured into a routine operation for the relief of hip pain and disability due to hip arthritis, giving some of the greatest quality of life increases of all medical pr...
New NICE Guidelines for Early Management of Non-specific Low Back Pain
Non-specific low back pan which persists for some time is a common presentation for various health care practitioners to deal with, representing a major reason for absence from work due to sickness. R...
How Acute Back Pain Becomes Chronic
Chronic back pain is a very important and costly condition in advanced industrial societies which is the chief cause of limitation of physical function in younger people under 45. The definiti...
Why Acceptance is so Important " Part Two "
Acceptance is easy to talk about but difficult to adopt. We may have to accept the loss of our ability to do something very important to us perhaps or which we think we should easily be able to do. We...
How Acute Back Pain Becomes Chronic " Part Two "
The vertebral bodies are separated by the discs which consist of two main structures: the inner more flexible nucleus pulposus and the outer, tougher annulus fibrosis. The annulus is in layers with so...
How Acute Back Pain Becomes Chronic " Part Three "
In some cases of back or leg pain corticosteroid injections may provide some relief and the mechanism may be that the steroid reduces any inflammatory process present in the tissues. Steroids inhibits...
