Your Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist can:
Totally relieve or reduce your pain.
Provide you with strategies to best manage your injury or condition.
Help you to recover quicker and hasten your return to your normal activities.
Improve your flexibility, muscle strength, quality of movement, proprioception and co-ordination.
Improve your fitness.
Help you to prevent future injury recurrences.
Prescribe exercises to do at home, work in the gym to enhance your recovery.
Sympoms of Musculoskeletal pain can include:
Aching or stiffness of the entire body.
Fatigue.
Sleep Disturbances.
The feeling that your muscles have been pulled or overworked.
Twitching muscles
Physiotherapy treatments for musculoskeletal conditions
acute back pain including sciatica and disc problems
chronic back pain
neck pain, including whiplash
headaches
shoulder pain
elbow pain
repetitive strain injuries
injuries post trauma, including fractures
post orthopaedic operations (spinal, shoulder and knee surgery, joint replacements)
post spinal surgery
sacroiliac joint pain
hip pain
knee pain
ankle pain
rheumatological conditions (AS, RA etc)
Haemophilia related musculoskeletal problems
sports injuries
work related injuries
sprains and strains / soft tissue injuries
paediatric orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions
Physiotherapy treatments for musculoskeletal conditions
If you have a problem which is not listed here, and wonder whether we may be able to help, please do not
hesitate in contacting us to discuss this further.
What we aim to provide our patients
You will have an initial assessment which will involve discussion about your pain or problems and a thorough examination.
From this we will aim to provide you with an explanation of your symptoms and agree a plan on how to
help you achieve your goals and your best possible outcome. The range of treatment options we have available to help with your condition include:
- manual therapy techniques (joint mobilisations, manipulations)
- soft tissue techniques (massage, myofascial release, trigger point techniques, stretches, PNF)
- patient-specific exercise prescriptions
- structured exercise classes and programmes (back class, leg class, ACL reconstruction class,shoulder class, osteoarthritis class, pilates, individually tailored programmes)
- hydrotherapy
- advice and education
- chronic pain management advice
- functional restoration programme for those with long standing pain.
- electrotherapy
Your therapist will establish with you the best combination of treatments to help achieve your goals.
What can you do to help us with your treatment
During your first appointment, we will need to find out from you about your problem, how it
started and how it is affecting you.
We may also need to ask you several questions about your problem
to allow us to fully understand your problem. We will discuss with
you what your goals and concerns are about your problem. To properly
assess your problem area, we will ask for your permission to remove
some of your outer clothing so that we can see the affected area and
perform movements and test on you to establish exactly the cause of
your problem. You are requested to bring all the previous MRI, CT,
Ultrasound, X-Ray , Discharge summary , Doctor Prescription etc. along with you.
- How long will my assessment or treatment session last?
- Dependent upon your problem, your initial assessment may last up to 45 minutes.
- Follow up treatment sessions may last up to 30 minutes-1hour.
