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Sciatica Treatment Sciatica is severe leg pain which is usually caused by a disc protrusion from one of the lower lumbar intervertebral discs. It is also known as nerve root pain as the anatomical pa...
Lumbago Lumbago is a term which is not used much nowadays and refers to moderate severe and disabling low back pain, usually of acute or recent onset and often secondary to disc problems in the back....
Chest Pain Chest pain can be from a variety of sources but the one which is most feared is the pain from restriction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle. Any suggestion of a heart related cause for c...
Chiropractors - Middle Back Pain
Chiropractors – Middle Back Pain Middle back pain or mid back pain is not as common as neck pain or low back pain but can be annoying or even disabling in rare cases. Further information about m...
Mid Back Pain The mid back is not a clearly defined area anatomically but for this article I have defined it as the lower half of the thoracic spine reaching from the sixth thoracic vertebra down to ...
Upper Back Pain Symptoms Upper back pain is a moderately common complaint but not as frequent as the reports of neck pain or lower back pain. Further information about upper back pain can be accessed...
Upper Back Muscle Pain Upper back pain is not as common as neck pain or lower back pain but in many cases the upper back pain and shoulder blade pain is referred from the neck anyhow so a physiothera...
Lord Darzi’s long-awaited review, “High Quality Care for All”, has continued the concentration on helping people stay at work (through speedy access to physiotherapy). This theme ent...
The Darzi Report and UK Physiotherapy
Lord Darzi is setting the direction of the NHS and of physiotherapy. Lord Darzi’s ground-breaking review of the NHS, High Quality Care For All, clearly points the way forward for the NHS and for...
Get ready for the beach rowing in the gym
With summer upon us, most of us dreaming of getting away and lying on a beach. But in the warmer weather the thought of going out for a run is enough to put off even the keenest of fitness enthusias...
Middle-aged people are fitter and exercise more than younger people. Middle-aged people are more likely to exercise and perform sports than younger people, a study of 60,000 people has found. The stud...
Running Improves Disability and Lifespan in Older People
In people 50 years old and older, running may improve functional ability and increase survival over the years. Physiotherapy management of this group will become increasingly important as pe...
The skiing season is almost upon us and thousands of British people will go to the mountains and do hard exercise they are not used to. For a few this will be a difficult experience, with injuries and...
Physiotherapy and Pain Management of Pain Syndromes
We grow up with the medical model of injury and disease in our heads, it's our way of understanding what happens to us. When a pain or other problem occurs, the doctor investigates and pins down the f...
Simple Back Exercises - Introduction
The cost of low back pain to society is very great, with high financial costs in terms of lost income, lost production and time off work and the costs of medical and physiotherapy and other treatments...
About the Gall Bladder Operation or Cholecystectomy - Part Two
After the operationWill there be any stitches? Some surgeons place all the stitches under the skin so that they do not need to be removed. Others use clips and stitches in the skin which do need to be...
The thirties is the decade when our muscles, tendons and ligaments begin to exhibit a loss of elasticity which makes them more vulnerable to the stresses put upon them. With the explosion of health pr...
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 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...
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...
