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In medical examination the concept of Red Flags has been developed to ensure the identification of symptoms and signs with potentially worrying medical findings on assessing a patient. This ensures a ...
Be Careful About Guidelines " Part One"
Guidelines. Guidelines. Guidelines. We are inundated with guidelines, telling us how to do this, how to do that, how to manage this condition and that condition. Many clinical groups look like they ar...
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...
Exercising With A Hip Replacement
Total hip replacement rehabilitation is not a complex process but it is useful for a skilled eye to be kept on the progress of the patient if the outcome is going to be optimal. The muscles around a p...
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...
Dislocation of the Shoulder - Part Two
The management of dislocated shoulders is a matter of controversy in the orthopaedic field, with the usual management being confined to a sling for between one and six weeks, with or without a strap a...
Injuries to the groin are very frequent in many different sports, typically those where an inward movement of the hip with some force is a common action. This injury is more common in sports such as f...
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...
Physiotherapy Management of Hamstring Injuries
The first and vital issue is the correct diagnosis of the injury and its severity as this will dictate the whole course of the treatment and indicate the speed of progression to be expected and the le...
Physiotherapy Management of Hamstring Injuries – Part Two
The remodelling phase of the healing period occurs over the weeks up to the sixth week after injury and at this point the patient should be tested by the physiotherapist and be able to perform a full ...
Hip Fracture Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy
Hip fractures are an extremely common occurrence in elderly populations and have significant negative consequences for the individual and the society looking after them. Younger people do fracture the...
Rehabilitation after Rotator Cuff Repair
Rotator cuff repair is a moderately common orthopaedic operation in older people and needs careful physiotherapy management to ensure a successful and functional outcome. The rotator cuff is a group o...
Rehabilitation after a Calf Injury
An injury to the upper part of the inner calf is a relatively common injury resulting from a sudden push off with foot involving some force. Sporting activities are the most common cause of calf strai...
Bracing and Taping Ankle Sprains
Ankle sprains are very common in sport and normal functional activities with millions of people suffering this kind of injury every year. Ankle bracing and taping is used to treat ankle sprains and to...
Managing Your Whiplash Pain – Part Four
Now you have your exercise plan firmly established you need to progress the distances your neck can move towards its full range and increase the frequency you perform them. As the ranges of movement m...
10 World Cup Injuries You Can Have for Yourself
The World Cup is well and truly upon us and the problems of the players are front page news all over the world. Because of the nature of any sport, including soccer, the nature and form of injuries wh...
Having Your Cruciate Ligament Reconstructed
When you rupture your cruciate ligament it is immediately obvious there is a problem, apart from the “pop” sound or feeling as the structure fails. The knee is painful at once and swells u...
A calf strain involves damage to the calf muscle in a vigorous activity and is a common injury in sports and other activities where the body weight is moved about rapidly. The calf is made up of two m...
Treatment is based on scientific~ practical and systematic approach in finding root cause of the problem and offer effective and efficient treatment means.Emphasis on patient education~ communication ...
