Physiotherapists in Bishops Stortford

Physiotherapy in Bishops Stortford

Bishops Stortford physiotherapists treat a variety of issues including sciatic pain and also postpartum pain among many others.

Finding a physiotherapist in Bishops Stortford is easy with the Physiotherapy Site. The Physiotherapy Site confirms the Health Professions Council registration details of all physiotherapists listed on the site. The practitioners are, in almost all cases, also members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy which is a professional member organization with its own high standards. The physiotherapists have a minimum of 5 years experience, although most have in excess of 10 years post-qualification experience. Our helpful team will advise clinic opening hours and arrange an appointment with you at a convenient time with a local clinic.

Physiotherapists in Bishops Stortford treat many different issues including the condition profiled below.

Repeated Loading of Lumbar Discs

Lower loads than the sudden compression loading which occurs seldom can cause a disc prolapse if the loading in a bent position is repeated in a cyclical manner. This can be caused in discs which are reasonably young and causes a large split in the rear of the disc wall to one side or another, allowing the central nuclear material to ooze out. In several examples the layers of the disc wall which were the most outer ones did not split and form a fissure and the nuclear material protruding through the fissure inside built up behind the remaining layers in a bulge. As the ligament overlying this has many nerve endings, such a bulge could cause pain.

Older discs were shown in some cases to have fissures which are already present before any experimental loading and these discs did not prolapse during the loading tests, perhaps because the fissures had healed or because discs in poorer condition are too stiff and fibrosed to prolapse. If twisting, side bending or compression is added to bending then prolapse can occur more easily with less bend of the back. In some cases the nucleus may protrude out but in others the outer disc walls can protrude themselves.