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Slouching Is Bad For You, Sit Up Straight!
Poor posture, along with the bony changes in the spine that can occur as people get older, can result in an increased rounding of the mid and upper back. This is called a kyphosis (ky-fo-sis), and...
Physiotherapy vs Chiropractic vs Osteopathy
So what is the difference between physiotherapy, chiropractic and osteopathy?Well the numbers are quite different for a start. There are over 2000 chiropractors, over 3600 osteopaths and over 39000 ph...
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...
Physiotherapy and Pain Management of Pain Syndromes
We grow up with the medical model of injury and disease in our heads, it's our way of understanding what happens to us. When a pain or other problem occurs, the doctor investigates and pins down the f...
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...
Ankylosing Spondylitis Treatment by Physiotherapy
The inflammatory arthritis diseases or spondyloarthropathies include various diseases such as Ankylosing spondylitis, the arthritis of bowel disease, reactive arthritis and the arthritis associa...
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 ...
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 and Spinal Cord Injury
High velocity accidents and sporting incidents carry a risk of causing a spinal cord injury (SCI), a serious but uncommon condition which can also be caused by ischaemia, infections or tumours. Younge...
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 ...
When a patient comes in for consultation we as physiotherapists have a duty to perform a careful history and examination to rule out serious problems and identify the cause of the symptoms. While most...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
If our bones lose some of their structural strength they can become too porous to cope with the mechanical forces which result from activities of daily living. The cortex is the denser, outer part of ...
Osteoporosis in Men " Part Two
Thyroid hormones can speed up the bone turnover rate if they are at abnormally high levels which make the incidence of osteoporosis more likely although it is relatively simple to medically treat the ...
