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The ability to position the fingers and thumb in precise postures is vital for the highly coordinated use of the hand and the wrist has a significant role to play in this function. The shoulder blade ...
Torticollis or an acute wry neck occurs relatively uncommonly and consists of the onset of sudden and severe neck pain which causes the cervical neck muscles to contract reflexly. This leads to the ne...
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 ...
The foot has a complex anatomy designed to bear the weight of the body and to propel the body forward in walking and running. The talus or ankle bone sits in the ankle mortise and is the top link of t...
The shoes in which we encase our feet in almost all circumstances may be partly to blame for some of the foot pathologies we experience. The unstable ground surfaces we now encounter much less often w...
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...
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 ...
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome-Part 1
Thoracic outlet syndrome is not one condition but the overall name for a number of different conditions thought to be related to compression of the nerves and blood vessels as they travel through the ...
Athletes commonly complain of pain on the outside of the knee, known as lateral knee pain, and pain from the iliotibial band is one of the most common causes of this problem in athletic performers. In...
Prolapse of a thoracic disc is uncommon and may be under-diagnosed due to the fact that examination findings and symptoms are difficult to pin down and not diagnostic of this kind of problem. Conserva...
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...
The head is a significantly heavy object balanced at the end of a long column, the neck. As such the neck has to manage to hold the head steady for long periods of time so we can pay attention without...
The knees are the largest joints in the body, controlled by very powerful muscles and coping with very high levels of physical stresses in movement and activities. The knees are designed to take the w...
Low back pain is one of the commonest and most troublesome musculoskeletal conditions in the world, responsible for a large amount of pain and suffering as well as expenses. A large proportion of peop...
How a Physio will treat you for Whiplash Injury
In the initial stages of whiplash injury, when the pain is acute and movement very limited, there is little a manual therapist can do directly to treat the person''s neck as the pain is too irritable ...
Exercises for Recovery from Whiplash Injury
Whiplash injury and the so-called whiplash associated disorders (WAD) are common injuries and most typically suffered in rear shunt vehicle accidents, of which there are a large number every day. The ...
Overuse injuries occur due to repeated and excessive demands on tissues over time, resulting in tissue damage and pain. All our bodily tissues have tolerances to activities and postures and have a deg...
Strengthening the Biceps Muscle
The biceps, or biceps brachii “two headed muscle of the arm”, is the major muscle in the upper arm at the front and important in positioning the arm for detailed tasks to be performed by t...
Developing the Forearm Muscles
The forearm muscles are a group of muscles which control the wrist and the hand and are vital in positioning and holding the hand in the many functional positions required for complex functions of the...
