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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15 Dec

🎅🏽For the Fifth Pain of Christmas….Tennis/Golfers Elbow🎅🏽

🎵”For the Fifth Pain of Christmas Bradley Physio Mended Me…”🎵 🎾TENNIS/GOLFERS ELBLOW ⛳ With an increased uptake of people playing golf over the past 18 months, more people working from home and doing DIY jobs around the house we are coming across more clients with Golfers and Tennis elbow. These are painful overuse injuries at […]

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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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23 Feb

Tennis Elbow

Author: James Clayton MCSP BSc(Hons) Physiotherapy Introduction (1,2,3) Tennis elbow, also known as lateral epicondylitis, is an overuse injury that affects the lateral wrist extensor muscles that attach at the elbow.And despite the term, tennis is only a direct cause in 5% of people with tennis elbow. And if left untreated, symptoms may persist for […]

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13 Jan

Frozen Shoulder – Physio Guide to Pathophysiology & Evidence Based Treatment

Frozen Shoulder – James Clayton This Blog will explain what frozen shoulder is, how we diagnose it and how the evidence states we should treat our patients. What is frozen shoulder? Previously coined as ‘peri-arthritis’ by Duplay in 1872(Reeves, 1975), frozen Shoulder was a term that was first used in 1934 by Codman (Rizk and […]

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09 Jan

‘Frozen Shoulder & Self Help Exercises’

Frozen shoulder syndrome, clinically known as adhesive capsulitis, is a painful and debilitating condition affecting up to 5% of the population. Patients experience pain, limited shoulder movement and disability generally lasting anywhere from 1 to 24 months. This means it is important to distinguish frozen shoulder from other types of shoulder conditions early such as […]

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24 Oct

Shockwave Therapy

  WHAT IS SHOCKWAVE THERAPY? Kiera Bradley Shockwave therapy is a non-surgical treatment, and works by delivering impulses of energy, targeted to specific damaged tissues, within an inflamed tendon. Its been shown to be most effective in assisting with the treatment of chronic conditions. One of the strongest arguments for the use of Shockwave Therapy […]

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