What We Treat

Pain behind the heel often caused by overuse and/or poor foot position or foot wear.  Often involves disorganisation of the fibres within the tendon and is managed with specific exercises to stimulate remodelling within the tendon.

This is wear and tear of joint surfaces that can cause swelling and pain in varying degrees.

Wow, this is something we treat all the time and there can be numerous causes of back pain.   The key is to recognise that each case is unique and will need an individual approach for the correct advice, exercises or manual treatment.   Very rarely is back pain a serious problem and, with help, will usually resolve within 3 months.

Dizziness is a complex speciality.  It is worth thinking which of these words suits your symptoms best; unsteady, disorientated, unbalanced, light-headed or vertigo.  Vertigo is described as the sensation of motion or movement when you shouldn’t have it.

A tightening of the shoulder joint capsule that reduces motion in ALL directions with persistent pain especially at night.

Once a broken bone or dislocated joint has healed rehabilitation can commence. Exercises, pain relief and mobilisations will assist getting back to the normal activities of daily living.

Pain localised on the inside of the elbow joint associated with overuse activities.

Overstretching of the tendons in the upper/inner thigh.

Some muscular tensions in the neck give rise to specific headaches.  Joint stiffness in the upper vertebral levels can also produce headaches.

Difficulty controlling the bladder or bowel.  Sometimes causing leaks.  Sometimes just needing to rush to the toilet more often than you would like.

Sometimes wear and tear behind the kneecap can cause discomfort on exercise or rest.  Occasionally foot position or changes in muscle activity can aggravate symptoms.

Sometimes pain and parasthesia (pins and needles) can refer from a back problem, Occasionally this is nerve irritation from bone, disc, joint or muscular origins.

Localised trauma to one or more ligaments in the knee causing inflammation/pain.

Tightness in the muscle often caused by overuse, tension or poor posture.

Commonly experienced as pain, pins and needles or numbness “in a line” following the route of a nerve.

This is a pain localised to the knee.  It is associated with increased activity when growing, causing irritation of the growth plate.

Bladder or bowel incontinence, pelvic pain, pain with intercourse, pelvic organ prolapse which can feel achy or painful but sometimes just feels “different down there”.

Pain under the heel and sometimes in the arch of the foot often caused by overuse and/or poor biomechanics.

A specific exercised based programme to help you get back to full function after your operation.

Muscles that support our body rather than move it can fatigue if overworked or used in an abnormal position.  They often feel stiff and sore.

Pain overlying or between the ribs.  It may radiate around the chest wall.

A group of 4 muscles around the shoulder make up the rotator cuff, dysfunction or injury to any of these muscles can cause shoulder pain and is referred to as a rotator cuff problem.

Very occasionally, pelvic joint can be come strained or stiffen, often associated with hormonal changes in pregnancy.

Pain specific to the back/outer aspect of the leg, sometimes as far as the ankle/foot.

See ‘Frozen Shoulder’.

Misleading disused terminology now described as disc bulge or prolapse.  Common finding on MRI scans often without symptoms but occasionally touching on nerves to create pain.

Overstretching or occasional tearing of muscles

Leaking urine when jumping, running, lifting, coughing or sneezing.

Misleading disused terminology now as most are not inflammatory.  Should be called tendinopathy and refers to painful, sometimes swollen areas within any tendon.

An overuse injury causing pain in the outside of the elbow.

Term often used to describe when nerves have become irritated by tension in the tissues around them causing pain, pins and needles or numbness along the path of the nerve.  Only very occasionally is the nerve actually trapped.

Symptoms following an incident where the head or body has jerked violently, occasionally, there is soft muscular tissue injury, but usually a muscular spasm reaction that stiffens movement and causes discomfort.