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New NICE Guidelines for Early Management of Non-specific Low Back Pain
Non-specific low back pan which persists for some time is a common presentation for various health care practitioners to deal with, representing a major reason for absence from work due to sickness. R...
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...
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...
Nerve root lesions in the neck are responsible for causing such extreme arm and shoulder pain that some patients wish they could cut off their arm. Typical presentation with this syndrome involves loo...
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...
How Acute Back Pain Becomes Chronic " Part Three "
In some cases of back or leg pain corticosteroid injections may provide some relief and the mechanism may be that the steroid reduces any inflammatory process present in the tissues. Steroids inhibits...
At the side of the neck on each side the nerves exit from the spinal areas at each level and join and separate in a complicated manner in what is anatomically called the brachial plexus. This nerve co...
Osteoporosis Treatment And Physiotherapy
Osteoporosis is a worldwide problem, though mostly documented in countries with advanced healthcare systems, and affects many millions of people across all countries. Women have a higher lifetime risk...
Reiter's syndrome is another name for reactive arthritis, although the latter is being used more commonly now. Genitourinary infections with organisms such as Chlamydia and gastrointestinal infections...
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...
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...
Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy after Discectomy
Nerve root pain in the leg, often known as sciatica, occurs in around five per cent of sufferers from low back pain, and is secondary to degenerative changes which occur in the disc, of which the disc...
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...
Whiplash Injury and Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD)
Due the very large number of vehicle journeys undertaken each day across the country there are a correspondingly large number of vehicle accidents or road traffic accidents RTAs. Rear shunt accidents,...
When a person suffers a whiplash injury pain may not be the first thing they notice unless the accident is very severe and high levels of force are involved. The shock of the accident and coping with ...
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 ...
What Happens in a Whiplash Injury?
When a whiplash injury occurs after a rear shunt vehicle accident we usually think purely in terms of the acute injuries to the anatomical structures in the cervical spine or neck. This is an importan...
Physiotherapy Management of Osteoporotic Fractures
Compression fractures of the spinal column are increasingly common clinical presentations with the increase in the elderly age groups as the population ages. Compression fractures may result in hospit...
Why Your Physio Does All Those Things – Prodding Your Joints and Muscles
Once the physio has seen the effects of repeated movements on your pain picture and tested the neurological status of your affected body part they will have a more detailed idea of which structures ne...
