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Physiotherapy for the Shoulder
The function of the human arm is to allow placement of the hand in useful positions so the hands can perform activities where the eyes can see them. Because of the huge range of positions required the...
Physiotherapy in Patients with Joint Hypermobility Syndrome
Collagen is an extremely important connective tissue protein in our bodies, making up significant amounts of our skin, tendons, discs and ligaments. Collagen gives structure to these organs, allowing ...
Physiotherapy Examination of a Joint
We thrive on participating in and completing many different activities which to a large extent depend on the condition of our body joints, from the large joints of locomotion (hips, knees) to the smal...
The Importance of Sensibility and Joint Position Sense
Our sensory system conveys the information we need to our brains so we can make the right decisions in daily life. Huge amounts of information flow in to our brain at all times and we must decid...
Physiotherapy Treatment for Proprioception
We discussed the importance of joint position sense in a previous article. Now it's time to look at the assessment and treatment of proprioceptive difficulties. As proprioception is affected less comm...
Our brains hold a representation of our body within them, a mental picture of the different parts of the body which is situated in our brain sensory cortex. The sensory cortex is programmed to look af...
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...
Simple Back Exercises Performance
The reasons and aims of doing routine lumbar spinal exercises have been explored in a previous article and now I explore the use of specific lumbar exercises and give an indication of how they should ...
Degenerative Disease of the Rotator Cuff
The shoulder is a highly mobile and relatively unstable joint with the largest range of motion of all the body's joints. The shoulder is designed to allow us to put our hands in front of our vision so...
A hernia occurs when a weakened area of the abdominal wall allows a bulge of fat or bowel from the abdominal contents to protrude outwards. This happens most commonly in the groin and is known as an i...
According to the evolutionary view of our biological history we have evolved from creatures which had a four-legged gait, changing gradually to our now very successful and functional walking pattern. ...
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...
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 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...
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...
The neck is an upward extension of the spine beyond the body, designed to support and serve the needs of the head. It is amazingly designed and highly engineered so its underlying very complex functio...
Loss of the ability to move the neck normally means that the capsules of the facet joints, sensitive ligamentous bags around the joints, are exposed to the risks of over-stretching. A sudden turn or t...
Psoriasis is a common condition which is difficult to treat and the treatments for it can be less than pleasant for the patients. Patients may present with psoriasis and joint symptoms but the diagnos...
