Achilles tendinopathy (or tendonitis) is pain in the Achilles tendon, usually felt when doing activities such as running and jumping. Often symptoms will remain consistent over time as pain will usually limit you from doing too much.
Does this sound like you?
Throughout our years of education in school or growing up at home, we have been told to ‘stand up straight’ or ‘sit up tall’. I’m sure we can all relate to the time where your mother told you off for slumping over or your teacher routinely requesting everyone to sit up tall at assemblies.
This slumping forward posture seems to be what we associate with as ‘incorrect’ posture and the ‘tall and upright’ posture seems to be the accepted ‘correct’ posture. I always hear patients tell me “I know I don’t sit in a good posture’ or “I know my posture is bad”.
BUT, what if I told you that there is no correct posture!?
In our last blog covering pain in children, we discussed niggling pain; the type that comes on over time and doesn’t have a necessarily clear cause or mechanism of injury. Today I want to talk to you about a very common type of niggling pain in children; knee pain.
Raise your hand if you have shoulder bursitis. Ouch!
Did you know acute shoulder pain makes up 16% of the injuries that physiotherapists see each month? And that on many occasions, people with shoulder pain are referred for imaging such as ultrasound or MRI.
BUT did you know that more than 25% of shoulders WITHOUT pain, show shoulder abnormalities on imaging, namely, subacromial bursitis and rotator cuff tears? Amy explains all here.
Back Pain. Disc Bulges. Nerve Pinches. Sciatica. Surgery. These words are normally enough to make anyone shake in their work boots.
Nonetheless back pain is extremely common and fortunately in the large majority of back pain cases there isn’t a significant muscle, joint, or disc injury and it is expected to resolve with good management between a few weeks, up to a few months.
What is osteoarthritis? There is a lot of misunderstanding and confusion surrounding knee osteoarthritis. The
“Where there’s stagnation, there will be pain. Remove the stagnation, and you will remove the
We have many parents bring their children to physiotherapy for diagnosis, management, and treatment of
Back pain with lifting tasks is one of the most commonly reported issues we manage
The knee has now surpassed the ankle as the most common injury sustained by netballers.
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