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What We Treat

ABOUT PHYSIOTHERAPY

Physiotherapy provides a direct route to better and sustained health and vitality. It plays an important part in pain relief, healing and rehabilitation of most medical and surgical conditions. It employs a variety of methods to alleviate a wide range of symptoms from the musculo-skeletal, respiratory and neurological systems.

A physiotherapist can evaluate your condition and identify the source of your discomfort or dysfunction. Once evaluated, the therapist can develop a treatment program. Commencing treatment early can mean a quicker recovery with less time away from work or sport.

This type of treatment is drug free and works by enhancing the body's own healing mechanism to cure itself of symptoms such as pain, limited range of movement, reduction of muscle strength, decreased co-ordination and restriction of normal daily activities.

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What can your physiotherapist treat?

As Chartered Physiotherapists we use a wide range of treatment techniques to treat a wide variety of problems such as:

√ Back pain / sciatica / disc problems

√ Neck pain / whiplash injury

√ Sports injuries – boney, muscles, tendons, ligaments or joints

√ Work & posture related complaints

√ Pre and post surgical rehabilitation

√ Arthritic pain

√ Headaches and stress related pain

√ Repetitive strain injuries

√ Tendonitis / tendonopathy

√ Pins and needles/numbness

√ Neurological Conditions

√ Respiratory Conditions

√ Other Conditions

Back Pain - lumbago, spondylosis (osteoarthritis), disc bulges or prolapses (slipped discs), spondylothesis, sciatica, muscle spasms/Injuries, ligament injuries, scoliosis, kyphosis, facet joint problems, stenosis and scheuermann’s disease.

Neck Pain - whiplash injury, acute torticollis (wry neck), spondylosis, facet joint problems, disc problems, muscle strains and sprains.

Sports Injuries – boney, muscle sprains and strains - hamstring tears, iliotibial syndrome, piraformis syndrome, tendons, ligament tears and sprains- anterior crucuate & medial ligament, capsule, cartilage - meniscal tears or joints - jumpers and runners knee.

Work & Posture Related Complaints - repetitive strain injuries eg tennis elbow, golfers elbow, rotator cuff tendonopathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, neck stiffness, dequervains tenosynovitis, spinal pain, muscle tension, tightness, muscle tension, spasm.

Pre and Post Surgical Rehabilitation - hip and knee replacements, other joint replacements, pre and post arthroscopy, ACL reconstructions, scar tissue treatment.

Arthritic pain – hip, knee, back, neck, thumb, fingers, and other joints, osteoarthritis, spondylosis, rheumatoid arthritis.

Headaches and stress related pain – cervicogenic headache, tension headache.

Tendonitis / tendonopathy - achilles tendonopathy, patella tendonopathy, rotator cuff tendonopathy or tear, tennis & golfer’s elbow.

Pins and needles – pins and needles, numbness.

Neurological Conditions – stroke, parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, peripheral neuropathies, balance problems, drop foot.

Respiratory Conditions – asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, sarcoidosis,

Other Conditions - frozen shoulder, impingement syndrome, movie goer’s knee, runners knee, housemaids knee, jumpers knee, trochanteric bursitis, dupytren’s contracture, symphysis pubis dysfunction, perthes disease, severs disease, osgood schlatter disease.