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Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, Physiotherapy training
So you want to be a physiotherapist? What is physiotherapy? Physiotherapy is a science-based healthcare profession which views movement as central to health and well being. Physiotherapists aim to ide...
Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, What is physiotherapy
What is physiotherapy? “Physiotherapy is a health care profession concerned with human function and movement and maximising potential: it uses physical approaches to promote, maintain and rest...
Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, Gym balls
Gym balls and instability We seen them in advertisements and in magazines, large, colourful balls with happy people having fun on them. The health industry is selling gym balls to us on the back of n...
Hip Pain causes and treatments
Hip Pain Hip pain, hip symptoms and hip disorders are more common than realised, likely due to the difficulty with diagnosing them accurately. Several body areas can refer pain in the hip area and cau...
Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, Child injuries from wheeled shoes and gliders
Injuries to Children from Roller Shoes, Heelers, Street Gliders New and innovative forms of activity for children are constantly being invented and produced for the mass market. Many children have hou...
Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, Osgood Schlatters Syndrome, OSD
Osgood Schlatter’s Disease, Osgood Schlatter’s Syndrome, OSD Osgood Schlatter’s Syndrome is a knee condition of athletic adolescent boys and girls, affecting up to 20% of this active...
Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, Acute vs chronic pain
Acute vs chronic pain Pain is confusing. And it’s important to get our ideas about it straight or it can cause severe confusion. We all think of pain in ways we have been brought up to, and i...
Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, Pain definition
Pain Defined The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as: “An unpleasant, sensory and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damag...
Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, Understanding Pain
Understanding Pain, A Ten Week Ecourse Part One: The Paradox of Pain and Damage This is Jonathan Blood Smyth, Founder of The Physiotherapy Site and author of Secrets of Pacing, and welcome...
Physiotherapy Site, Physiotherapists, Physio, Understanding Pain part 2
Understanding Pain, A Ten Week Ecourse: Part 2 by Jonathan Blood Smyth Hi, this is Jonathan Blood Smyth again, Founder of The Physiotherapy Site and author of Secrets of Pacing, and welcome to the se...
Knee Pain Knee pain is one of the commonest musculoskeletal complaints, varying from the trivial and very common to the serious and uncommon. Knee pain is one of the complaints which varies signific...
Physiotherapy Physiotherapy, also just called physio for short, is a science-based profession dedicated to helping people with respiratory, neurological, musculoskeletal and ageing difficulties by us...
Spinal Clinic Fined For No Physio
A private orthopaedic clinic has been prosecuted and fined by the Healthcare Commission. The Peterborough based Orthopaedic and Spine Specialty Clinic was found guilty of breaching its conditions ...
Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment with Physiotherapy
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic, inflammatory joint disease which occurs in about 1% of the population, causing a symmetrical polyarthritis and generalized involvement of many t...
How Physiotherapists Treat Wrist Fractures
Every winter the weather gets cold and icy at some time and we realise that the time has come when we are less safe out and about, that season when people start to slip and fall. Falls on an out...
Inflammatory Disease of the Bowel " Part One"
Inflammatory diseases of the bowelThe bowel can develop redness and inflammation in these illnesses. Ulcerative colitis involves the lining of the large bowel. Crohn's disease can involve any area of ...
Non-bony Structures in the FootThe soft tissues of the foot consist of ligaments, tendons and muscles. Ligaments are fibrous bands or sheets with limited elasticity which connect bones together. Ligam...
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...
If our bones lose some of their structural strength they can become too porous to cope with the mechanical forces which result from activities of daily living. The cortex is the denser, outer part of ...
Osteoporosis Treatment And Physiotherapy
Osteoporosis is a worldwide problem, though mostly documented in countries with advanced healthcare systems, and affects many millions of people across all countries. Women have a higher lifetime risk...
