Physiotherapists in Wood Green

Physiotherapy in Wood Green

Wood Green physiotherapists treat a variety of issues including rheumatoid arthritis and also sciatic pain among many others.

Finding a physiotherapist in Wood Green 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 Wood Green treat many different issues including the condition profiled below.

The Upper Neck

The upper neck or cervical spine is specialised in its anatomy and function as it has to bear the weight of the head and allow the head to be moved into any position for our sensory organs to receive the information they need. The two upper vertebrae, the atlas and the axis, have a specialised anatomical structure which is designed to satisfy the needs of head positioning in many functions. The upper vertebra, the atlas, has no body and is a bony ring with large facet joints to articulate with the facet joints of the lowest part of the skull, the occiput.

The second vertebra, the axis, has .captured. the body part of the vertebra above and has a upwardly protruding pin called the dens (latin for tooth) which forms a joint with part of the atlas above and also with a ligament which runs round it. The integrity of this joint is very important and if the dens is fractured or the ligament becomes slack then there can be a risk of damage to the spinal cord with death or quadriplegia. For this reason in any patient who may have suffered head or neck trauma the dens is x-rayed and checked carefully.