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What Causes Back Pain?

January 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Back Pain

Back pain is a common problem affecting literally millions of people. It can range from minor, temporary pain, to sustained pain in different parts of the back, neck or shoulders or involve the pinching of nerves, affecting the legs or arms.   The causes of sciatica vary and can often be a combination of [...]

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Ankylosing Spondylitis and Physiotherapy

August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Shoulder

Physio Treatment in Ankylosing Spondylitisby Jonathan Blood SmythAnkylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory arthritic disease or spondyloarthropathy, classified with reactive arthritis, bowel disease arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. The underlying relationships between these diseases are complex but they are connected by enthesitis (inflammation of the ligament/bone junctions) and by possession of the HLA B27 gene on white [...]

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Joint Examination and Physiotherapy

August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Shoulder

Our ability to participate in functional activities is greatly dependent on the state of our body joints, from the knees and hips which bear weight and allow walking to the jaw joints which aid speaking and eating. Our joints are exceptionally well designed to allow us to move about and accomplish tasks and mostly they [...]

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Rehabilitation of a Colles Fracture â?? Physiotherapy

August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Shoulder

Colles’ fractures, named after Abraham Colles who first described in 1814 the common fracture of the last inch of the radius and ulna near the wrist, is a very common consequence of a fall on the outstretched hand (FOOSH). Typical treatment is immobilisation in a plaster of Paris or similar material for five to six [...]

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Back Exercises and Performance

August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Shoulder

Another article has covered the goals and rationale behind setting and observing a lumbar exercise programme and in this article I go over the specifics of lumbar exercises and their performance. Exercise performance varies greatly between patients but the aim is smooth movement with steadily timed motions, moving through the full ranges and holding at [...]

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