What is a sprained ankle?
Sprained ankle? What is a sprained ankle? Well the term is applied to a soft tissue injury at the ankle joint but there are a number of possible injuries that this term may be used to describe. As a sports physiotherapist you assess the area to identify the tissues involved and the type/grade of injury. […]
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 […]
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 […]