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The Treatment of Sciatica by Physiotherapists
Sciatica results from a structure impinging on a lumbar nerve root, causing compression and/or inflammation enough to cause neurological changes in the skin, reflexes and muscles served by the affecte...
Brachial Plexus Lesions Pain and Surgery
by Jonathan Blood SmythStretching or traction injuries are the most difficult to treat as the status of the nerves is not accurately known, with early surgery potentially preventing normal recov...
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 ...
How Physiotherapists Treat Golfers Elbow
Golfer's elbow (medial epicondylitis) is not confined to golfers, but occurs in many sportsmen and women, with racquet sports the most common causes. Other sports where golfer's elbow occurs are...
Muscle Strength Assessment by Physiotherapy
We depend on our muscles to allow us to do all the functional activities we want to perform, from walking to climbing stairs to typing and doing precise work. Our muscles can deliver huge amounts of p...
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...
Human movement is most simply and conveniently attained by walking which relies on being pain free and having good joint and muscle condition. Sufficient muscle power and full ranges of motion of the ...
The Saturday Night Palsy or Why You Should Be Nice To Your Nerves
You may be familiar with the picture, either personally or from a story somebody told you. A young man goes out for the evening, all dressed up and smelling of aftershave. He meets his mates in the pu...
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...
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...
Management Of A Painful Joint " Part Two "
If the pain is judged as coming from the joint in question then certain decisions have to be made as to the causes of this. Inflammatory arthritis is the first category to be considered, with inflamma...
Lower limb amputation is a major undertaking and greatly affects the life of the individual, adding psychological stresses to the physical efforts of rehabilitation, fitting for a new limb and learnin...
Training To Be A Physiotherapist
There is a greater need for increased numbers of physiotherapists now than there has ever been. More and more aspects of people''s health have been shown to be amenable to improvement by physiotherapy...
Mortons Neuroma or Metatarsalgia
Foot pain in the forefoot, which can be an annoying and persistent pain in the frontal foot region, is medically known as metatarsalgia due to the metatarsal region being the main area of pain. Metata...
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...
Cervical Pain and Disability - Part Two
The arms and legs can exhibit alterations in their sensory reactions even though those regions have no reported symptoms, in response to a neck pain problem or a neck injury. If the area being tested ...
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Management - Part Two
The physiotherapist will typically begin the examination even before the patient takes off any of their clothes by observing the usual posture they tend to adopt. Posture of the shoulders may be...
There are two major classifications of flat foot, congenital flat foot which is often asymptomatic and cannot be classed as a pathology, and acquired flat foot which occurs in adulthood secondar...
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory neurological disease affecting the central nervous system which results in loss of myelin, the insulating material around nerves, a process called demyelinat...
