Breathing control and pain.

Breathing control is an important factor in dealing with pain and this blog hopes to highlight why this is and show you ways in which you can with pain control. The pain that you experience can cause you to tense more and change where you breathe. You can find yourself breathing high in your chest, […]

Back Pain Myths & Truths

Back Pain Myths & Truths This video helps to explain why it is important to bust the myths which surround back pain and reinforce the latest evidence, to help our patients. The terms and the therapy we offer as practitioners needs to be relayed carefully and should be supported by medical science. If you were […]

Explaining pain to patients

Explaining pain to patients For a physiotherapist explaining pain to patients can be difficult. Professor Lorimer Moseley is extremely good at it. Please watch this video to improve your understanding of the complexities of pain. It will help you understand that as a protection mechanism it is poorly linked to the level of tissue damage, […]

I have back pain, do I need an MRI of my back?

I have back pain, do I need an MRI of my back? This is a question that we hear often in the clinic. People are curious about what is going on in their back when they are suffering low back pain, which is not surprising. We associate pain with seeing the cause a cut, a bruise […]

Back pain – What can you do about it.

 Back Pain Physiotherapy   Approximately 80% of the population will have one or more episodes of  back pain in their lifetime. Back pain is the most common condition seen by physiotherapists at Physis. Although often painful and disabling, back pain in most cases is not due to a serious problem.  95% of cases of acute low […]