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Physiotherapists in Cheshire treat many different conditions including the condition profiled below.
Fractures of the Radius and Ulna
75% of all bony wrist injuries are fractures of the end of the radius, the ulna or both bones. The wrist joint involves the radius and ulna and the first row of the wrist bones. There are various fracture classification schemes for wrist injuries although a general guide is that the greater the amount of displacement and the greater the number of fracture fragments the more severe the injury is. The typical onset of these fractures is a FOOSH, a fall on an outstretched hand, which forces the wrist up into extension and typically results in a fracture in the last inch of the radius.
Because of the direct of the fall and the forces involves, the end fragment of the bone tends to be displaced upwards and backwards, with the ulna frequently fracturing too. The most common fracture pattern in this type is the Colles fracture, the term now used to describe a fracture through the last inch of the radius with ulnar fracture commonly accompanying it. This fracture is much more common in older age groups when it shows as a clean break away from the wrist. Younger people can suffer this kind of fracture but the higher forces often cause more severe damage.
The Course of Low Back Pain
Low back pain is always described as being either acute, sub acute or chronic with acute pain lasting less than six weeks, sub acute pain from six weeks to twelve weeks and chronic pain lasting over the twelve week point. Most people were assumed to recover quickly and go back to normal with only a small number suffering longer term pain and disability. However, research has shown that it is an episodic and recurring condition and present for much longer than generally thought. 75% of patients with back pain in primary care still had symptoms a year later in one study, indicating back pain is more of a chronic picture overall.
Patients with chronic back pain are not uniformly severe or disabled but rather suffer a varying degree of pain and disability over time. Old views used to be that 80-90 percent of back episodes resolved completed but it is much more realistic to view it as a longer term grumbling problem. The main predictor for people having back pain in the future is having had it in the past and this supports the above idea of back pain as a continuing problem. For most people back pain is a common but limited irritation which recurs from time to time.
Physiotherapists in Cheshire have contributed some of the many articles on this site such as the one extracted below.
A stress fracture is a relatively common happening in those who pursue sport and in military personnel who march and train vigorously. Stress fractures are mostly a feature of the lower limb bones but can be present in other areas of the body. The foot metatarsals, the fibula and the tibia show the greatest frequency of this type of injury, with decreasing likelihood further up the leg. The application of repetitive strains to the bone at a level insufficient to cause immediate fracture can do so over time as the activity proceeds.The affected area may be the source of increasing pain levels during exercise and activity, with the sufferer often reporting they have increased their training levels in intensity or frequency. Conservative treatment is usually straightforward with limitation of activity of the part and in some fractures immobilisation is required. Healing is often also straightforward although there is the danger of non-union in some fractures, with some needing internal fi...
