Treatment
MyPhysio offers comprehensive treatment options for your condition. We will fully assess, and diagnose your problem and before embarking on a treatment plan we will discuss this diagnosis with you and explain the aims of treatment fully with you.
Our Physiotherapists have a variety of treatment techniques depending on the type of problem you have. Your treatment may include some or combination of the following:
Manual therapy
Joint mobilisation, joint manipulation, soft tissue release and mobilisation, sports massage, deep tissue massage, trigger point release, stretching.
Mobilisation involves prolonged pressure over the joint that is causing problems in a rhythmical manner to loosen the joint and switch off some of the tissues surrounding the area that may be in spasm.
Manipulation is a quicker way of achieving the above by using a quick thrust technique to take the joint to it’s end of range, it is incredibly effective in certain circumstances, but not in all cases.
Laura is a member of the Manipulation association of Chartered Physiotherapists and trained at Masters level in these techniques.
Sports and deep tissue massage techniques have been used for centuries to stimulate the muscle activity around an area of spasm to relax or rejuvinate muscles, or to get muscles activating in a different way.
Trigger point release has been used for many years to treat areas of spasm in a particular muscle group, when combined with stretches, overactive muscles can be relaxed, lengthened and facilitated to work in a more normal way.
Exercise
Strengthening and conditioning, stretching and flexibility exercises, core stability exercises, gym ball exercises, postural re-education, sports specific rehabilitation.
Exercise therapy is often the key component in recovery; with any injury the muscles can be over or underworked and may lose strength and flexibility. Physiotherapy can assist by knowing how to retrain these muscles back to a specific level of function tailor made to each individual need.
Advice
Postural advice and assessment, workstation set up, recovery advice, gait analysis Advice forms the “bread & butter” of any rehabilitation programme, knowing what to do, how often and why, you’re doing it will optimise your recovery period and reduce the time it takes to get there.
Postural and ergonomic advice can be part of the reason why a problem is persisting. MyPhysio have extensive knowledge in giving this advice, and also have good links with ergonomic assessors that could help further by providing workstation equipment.
Laura really helped me with relieving back pain. It was good to know that she was there when I need here. I would thoroughly recommend her.