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Tendons are the body tissues that connect muscle bellies to our bones. The Achilles tendon is the rope-like structure running from the calf muscle in the back of your leg […]

Tendons are the body tissues that connect muscle bellies to our bones. The Achilles tendon is the rope-like structure running from the calf muscle in the back of your leg […]

Back pain is probably the most widespread, common, and potentially disabling injury in modern society. It is also one of the most misunderstood. It is commonly thought that prompt diagnosis […]

Acute low back pain is a very common complaint; with approximately 80% of people experiencing it within their lifetime, most often those between the ages of 35 and 55 years […]

Back pain is probably the most widespread, common, and potentially disabling injury in modern society. It is also one of the most misunderstood. It is commonly thought that prompt diagnosis […]

What is it? What do I look for? What causes it? Although this condition is often self-limiting and will usually improve with rest and with increasing age, over time you […]

This is a common condition in footballers. The player will often present to the trainer or physiotherapist with pain across the front of the ankle, with no apparent recent injury […]

Ligaments are the body tissue used to hold our bones together. Ligament injuries around the ankle are among the most common sporting injuries, especially in those sports involving twisting and […]

Ligament injuries of the ankle are the most common of all sporting injuries. Every sprain causes damage to the stabilising tissues of the joint with bleeding, swelling and tenderness. The […]

The anterior (tibial) compartment syndrome, also called anterior or lateral shin splints, usually occurs when a runner changes from a flatfooted to a toe-running style, begins interval training on a […]

Damage to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee is one of the most highly publicised injuries in Sport. These injuries can be associated with dramatic footage of the […]

Your spinal cord relays thousands of messages a second and it is your backbone and muscles, which protect this delicate and very important human ‘super highway’. The two key areas […]

Research conducted in 1987 by Dr Gordon Waddell in one of the most prestigious journals of spinal research, Spine, suggested there is little doubt that rest, and in particular prolonged […]

At some stage in their lives eighty per cent of the population will experience back pain. To make matters worse, after the first incidence, eighty per cent will suffer a […]

What’s the worse job for back and neck pain; truck driving. This may surprise many people who thought that jobs involving lifting or hard labour would be the worse. The […]

Suffering a headache the morning after drinking red wine is a very common experience for many people in the community. But are these headaches part of a hangover? Why do […]

What is it? The carpal tunnel is a tunnel between the wrist bones and the flexor retinaculum (a band of connective tissue). Through this tunnel passes the majority of the […]

A torn cartilage/meniscus is a very common knee injury. It can happen while playing sport, at work and also while doing household activities. Causes The tear more often than not […]

What is it? Cervical headaches are one of the types of headaches people experience and between 15-20% of all headaches are thought be cervical in origin. Why a pain in […]

There is widespread support in the literature that headaches are often multifactorial in their origins. If your assessment reveals poor posture, limited range of cervical spine movement, palpatory tightness or […]