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 […]
Back Pain Physiotherapy
Back Pain Physiotherapy- does physio matter? Back pain physiotherapy has changed a great deal in the last 20 years. We used to look at back pain purely ‘pathoanatomically’ (what injury is there – patho and which bit is injured – anatomical), but now we realise that pain is more complicated than that. Firstly, you can […]
Sciatica treatment – the best approach. Is physiotherapy the answer?
Sciatica treatment – the best approach? Many patients suffer significant sciatica pain and are looking for the most effective sciatica pain relief. But is sciatica nerve relief possible? Well there are ways to get sciatica relief and here we explain how. The best approach to sciatica treatment is usually varied and can be quite different between […]
Sciatica- is there a quick fix?
What is sciatica? What is sciatica? Our first problem. Patients (and a number of healthcare professionals!) tend to believe the following: Any pain in the leg coming from the back is sciatica It is caused by pressing the sciatic nerve The pressure comes from a slipped disc The nerve is trapped and needs freeing, so […]
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 […]