30 Sep

Achilles Tendinopathy: Causes, Treatment, and Effective Exercises – Gabi Ashcroft BScHonsPhysiotherapy

Achilles tendinopathy is a painful and often debilitating condition that affects the Achilles tendon, causing swelling, stiffness, and discomfort. This common overuse injury occurs due to repeated microtraumas—tiny injuries to the tendon—that fail to heal completely. Over time, this can lead to scar tissue build up, causing pain and even thickening of the Achilles tendon. The […]

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08 Mar

Plantar Plate Tears

What is the plantar plate? The plantar plate is a deep fibrocartligenous structure in the foot that attaches to the proximal phalanx and the metatarsal head . The role of the plantar plate is to keep the toes in place by stopping them from drifting apart or over extending, therefore injury to this can cause […]

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30 Jan

Achilles Tendonitis/Tendonopathy

What is it? Achilles tendonitis/tendonopathy is an inflammation of the achilles tendon which is often chronic, causing adhesions (scar tissue) results in pain around your heel, bottom of your calf and in or around the achilles tendon at the back of the ankle. In many cases the continuous breakdown and healing of the tendon causes […]

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10 Nov

Plantar Fasciitis

  PLANTAR FASCIITIS  Is most commonly known as pain under the bottom of your foot, whether that be pain under your heel or into the arch of your foot. Symptoms Pain under heel and arch of your foot. Pain can be sharp/stabbing or constant dull ache Often worse on waking Worse when walking, running and […]

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02 Aug

Help for Foot & Ankle Injuries

FOOT & ANKLE INJURIES Ankle injuries are common across the population in children and throughout adulthood, whether it happens playing sport, gardening, walking the dog or out shopping. There are lots of different structures within the ankle which can get damaged, with the most common being ligaments, while also affecting the muscles, tendons and bones. […]

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17 Dec

🎅🏽For the Eighth Pain of Christmas….Post-Op Rehab🎅🏽

🎵”For the Eighth Pain of Christmas Bradley Physio Mended Me…”🎵 ❤️‍🩹POST-OPERATIVE REHABILITATION❤️‍🩹 One of the most common settings that people find physiotherapists is on the wards in hospital where people have had orthopaedic surgery. Physio’s help these people get up and moving as quickly as possible so they can then get home. However once home […]

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15 Dec

🎄For the Seventh Pain of Christmas…Osteoarthritis (OA)🎄

🎵”For the Seventh Pain of Christmas Bradley Physio Mended Me…”🎵 😞 OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA) 😞 Osteoarthritis affects the vast majority of people, particularly as they get older. Most people will have osteoarthritis and not even know about it! But the unfortunate few can be severely affected by it.  Osteoarthritis is the result of age related changes […]

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15 Dec

🎁For the Sixth Pain of Christmas…Strains🎁

🎵”For the Sixth Pain of Christmas Bradley Physio Mended Me…”🎵 ⚽ STRAINS 🏃 Strains are a very common injury in sport but can also unfortunately happen during day to day tasks. A strain is an injury to the muscle often caused by overloading a muscle or overstretching the muscle beyond its normal range. The severity […]

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03 Aug

Sprains & Strains – What is the difference?

By James Clayton Bsc (Hons) MCSP Strains and Sprains- what are they and what should you do? With the recent change in the weather, the lifting of Covid restrictions and the longer days, more and more people are keen to get outside and participate in sport as a way to keep fit (mentally or physically), […]

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13 Nov

Bone Bruising – What you need to know….

  DEFINITION/DESCRIPTION A Bone Bruise is one of the four types of fractures (broken bones) that occur in the human body, the others are: stress fractures, osteochondral fractures and bone fractures.   Bone bruise is a term that encompasses three different kinds of bone injuries:                     […]

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