Understanding Pain
Understanding Pain The vast majority of our patients come to see us because they are in pain. Understanding pain and the useful protective mechanism it provides for the body is crucial to helping patients recover. When recovery is outwith normal tissue healing we call it ‘persistent pain’ and patients often struggle to understand why things […]
Cognitive Functional Therapy
Recovery of Chronic and Recurrent Low Back Pain through Physis The back pain service is led by clinical director Graham Curlewis, who studied under Professor Peter O’Sullivan, the lead clinician behind the ‘Cognitive Functional Therapy’ approach to low back and pelvic pain. This team of researchers has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals relating […]
Physio vs Chiro
Physiotherapy, Chiropractic or Osteopathy. How do you choose? Lets start with the difference between a physiotherapist, a chiropractor, and an osteopath? This is a question we get asked all the time and one, which can produce widely different responses depending on your background. Below is our view, based, as ever, on the available evidence. There […]