Ever feel like your recovery or rehab is taking longer than you’d like? Or maybe you’re looking for ways to boost your fitness without always pushing your body to its...

If you’ve ever felt guilty for not having a 5-day-a-week, high-intensity gym habit, we have some news that might make you breathe a sigh of relief. The American College of...

Completing a marathon is tough! And getting to the start line can sometimes getting to the start line can be the hardest thing. Preventing injuries when training for a marathon...

Massage is not our specialism On my degree course, if I remember right, we did exactly 0 minutes of massage practice or teaching. I know that’s a bit of a...

If you’ve been told you have sciatica, it can sound like a big and scary diagnosis. But let’s break it down in a way that makes more sense—and hopefully makes it...

Back pain is one of the most common things seen in a physiotherapy clinic. There are so many stats that show how much it affects the economy, but to be...

How are personal trainers that shout at you and make you feel bad about exercise similar to weight loss injections? I have felt the need to write this blog, despite...

Can physio help with my torn meniscus? Historically, when you had been diagnosed with a torn meniscus, you would quite quickly be referred to the surgeon for an arthroscopy to...

Here goes nothing, my first blog, about me – simple. OK, so I have decided to add a blog to the website. This is something new to me, so bear...

My approach to treatment and why. Exercise, pain relief and shockwave therapy. So many people I have seen and spoken to recently seem to have been suffering from plantar fasciitis,...

Here is a brief patient information leaflet on subacromial pain. It details the signs and symptoms and a brief explanation of what it is… Although the physios reading this I...

Signs, symptoms and treatment advice if you have pain on the outside of your hip. Lateral hip pain is a pain in the butt……. quite literally. The pain of lateral...

An x-ray or scan is just part of the picture, it doesn\’t necessarily tell you how to get better or what you can and can\’t do. Last week I posted...

Arthritis is a blanket term describing pain, stiffness and swelling in the joints. It affects roughly 10 million people in the UK and can affect people of any age. There...

I write this as we enter the second week of ‘lockdown’ while COVID-19 or Coronavirus is spreading outside. Many people are stuck at home with very little to do, and...

What are shin splints? Shin splints is a term used commonly for pain in the shin. It’s as simple as that. There are of course many different causes of shin...