Expertise

Our practice specialises in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of sports injuries and musculoskeletal conditions.

The aims of physiotherapy depend upon the individual and unique goals of each client, however, in general terms these may be: pain relief, stimulation of the body's natural healing mechanisms, restoration of function, muscle balance retraining, rehabilitation, and return to activity or competition.

These aims may be achieved through a myriad of physical and manual therapy interventions including: mobilisation, manipulation, soft-tissue release techniques, facilitation of normal muscle patterning, tissue stretching, muscle strengthening, proprioceptive rehabilitation, core stability retraining, taping, and hot/cold therapy.

To give you an idea of the kind of problems we treat, we have compiled an A-Z of examples:

Acute Sports Injuries: Muscle tears, ligament injuries, overuse injuries, muscle balance and performance issues.

Back Pain: Acute or chronic, facet joint, disc pain, nerve irritation, sciatica, control problems, movement dysfunctions, postural pain.

Cervicalgia (Neck Pain): Facet joint problems, nerve irritation, whiplash, stiffness, postural symptoms.

DeQuervian's tendopathy: Pain associated with the tendons of the thumb.

Elbow and Forearm: Tennis elbow, golfers elbow, muscle tears, sports injuries, overuse injuries, nerve irritation, wrist pain, post fracture rehabilitation.

Foot and Ankle: Ankle sprains, ankle instability, biomechanical problems, overpronation, achilles tendon problems, overuse injuries.

Gilmore's Groin: A groin strain common among footballers, initial treatment involves promoting tendon healing and core stability retraining.

Headaches:  Headaches related to posture, joint restriction in the neck, or referred from the spine are amenable to physiotherapy management.

Impact Injuries

Joint Disease: Physiotherapy is important in the management of wear and tear of the joints as in Osteoarthritis.

Knee and Hip: Muscle tears, ligament injuries, anterior knee pain, muscle balance problems.

Ligament Injuries

Muscle Balance: A common problem which can present as pain or weakness anywhere in the body and affect performance.

Nerve Pain: When nerves are injured or inflamed they become sensitive to stretch and compression causing pain on movement and activity.

Orthopaedic Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation following fracture, ligament repair, joint replacement, tendon repair.

Pain

Q-angle: Refers to the relationship between the knee cap and the Femur (thigh bone), biomechanical malalignment can cause pain.

Rehabilitation: Is essential following injury to facilitate recovery and return to activity or competition.

Shoulder: Rotator cuff tears, instability, frozen shoulder, scapula dyskinesis, muscle balance problems, Acromioclavicular joint sprains.

Thoracic Spine: Joint sprains, stiffness, postural problems, T4 syndrome.

Upper Limb: Sports injuries and musculoskeletal injuries of the joints, muscles and nerves causing pain or dysfunction of the upper limb.

Vascular: Pain may arise in the body because of entrapment of the blood vessels where they interface with other tissues.

Whiplash Associated Disorders

X-Ray Findings: Some conditions diagnosed through the use of imaging are amenable to physiotherapy, for example spondylolisthesis.

Your Problem?: This list is by no means comprehensive, please see our Contact Us   page to arrange an initial assessment.

Zygapophyseal Joint Dysfunction: Pain arising from dysfunction of the small joints of the spine.