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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...
Sciatica Pregnancy Sciatica pain is severe buttock and leg pain, often below the knee and in the foot, usually due to a disc prolapse in one of the lower lumbar segments. It can occur in pregnancy an...
Neck Exercises for Neck Pain Neck pain is very common and usually is relatively mild and temporary, settling down within a week or two. However it can be much more troublesome and be a cause of pain ...
Torticollis – Neck Pain Torticollis (latin for twisted and neck) is a condition whereby the head adopts an abnormal position either due to a pain event or a different condition of some kind. To...
Stiff Neck A stiff neck could be the symptoms of a number of conditions related to the neck and upper body, with neck pain being the most frequent. Cervical spine neck pain is very common and restric...
Neck Pain Relief Neck pain is one of the commonest complaints which people consult physiotherapists for, varying from intermittently annoying pain to severe and disabling pain and other symptoms. Cer...
Beijing Heat Physiotherapy Network
The madness that was the opening ceremony 2 nights ago is a far cry from my physiotherapy clinic in Islington but that is where I found myself, and right in the thick of the action. Walking down the t...
Managing Respiratory Conditions by Physiotherapy
Physiotherapists see a very wide spectrum of respiratory conditions in primary and secondary care, learning to manage the assessment and treatment of many chest diseases. Typical conditions seen...
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...
Getting To A Diagnosis of Back Pain
The diagnosis of lumbar back pain is difficult and uncertain due to the various conditions which can present with this problem. Effective back pain management depends on identifying what kind of back ...
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...
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...
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...
Meralgia paraesthetica is a pain syndrome and one of many different ones potentially presenting to a physiotherapist or doctor for diagnosis and treatment. The typical symptoms are numbness, pins and ...
Cervical Pain and Disability - Part One
The amount of neck pain and disability suffered by patients varies greatly from very low pain levels and virtually no disability to high pain levels which interfere significantly with activities of da...
Observing the patient rising up on their toes as the calf muscle performs the tiptoe action to bring the weight over the metatarsal heads, we should see an inward deviation of the heel area. Thi...
Hampstead Heath this morning was beautiful but treacherous and all of a sudden, as is usual with such things, I fell over on the ice. One minute I was walking along chatting and the next minute I was ...
Due to the fact that almost everybody with MS has a steady progression of their condition even if they don’t have obvious attacks, the term benign MS appears to be a misnomer. A very few patient...
Our feet are amazing machines, managing without complaint most of the time to transmit the weight of the body as we propel ourselves around at varying speeds, all the while keeping balance and a secur...
When a person suffers a whiplash injury pain may not be the first thing they notice unless the accident is very severe and high levels of force are involved. The shock of the accident and coping with ...
