Physiotherapists in Broxburn

Physiotherapy in Broxburn

Broxburn physiotherapists treat a variety of issues including acute muscle pain and also colic among many others.

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

Pacing to Avoid Overdoing Activities in Chronic Pain

Patients with chronic pain very commonly push themselves hard to get things done, to complete the day to day activities they feel they must continue to perform. Unfortunately this almost always leads to a severe worsening of their pain, forcing them to rest in high levels of pain for several days. This pattern is commonly repeated again and again with the consequence that the person.s abilities tend to reduce over time as they become able to do less and less. This is known as the overdoing and under doing cycle, or activity cycling. It is a counterproductive cycle for pain sufferers, who can learn pacing their activities to their advantage.

Pacing changes the way activities are performed from a pain dependent state, where the person does the activity until pain stops them, to a time dependent state. This means they do an activity for a previously specified length of time then stop, not overdoing it at any one time. The person does the activity until they feel their pain worsen, records that time and then takes 20% off that time to give their quota. They are not allowed to go over their quota initially, to gain control of the activity.