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Internal Bone Fracture Fixing

By Jonathan Blood Smyth · 15 years ago

The challenge of fractures through the ages has been how to manage the severe pain, immediate disability and long term sequelae of these acutely presenting emergencies, making broken bones clear priorities due to the large ...

Yoga and Back Pain

By Andrew Mitchell · 15 years ago

Back problems are often a hazard, making it difficult to do the common things that most take for granted: lift objects, bend down, or even sitting in a cushy armchair. While GPs recommend diets, pills, ...

Muscle Strength Assessment by Physiotherapy

By Jonathan Blood-Smyth · 15 years ago

All of our activities of daily living depend on having sufficient muscle power to carry them out, from actions demanding high levels of power such as getting up from the ground to fine actions such ...

Pregnant Women Can Treat Back Pain with an Osteopath

By Andrew Mitchell · 15 years ago

Pregnancy puts an enormous amount of strain upon a woman's body. To be sure, bearing life is no easy task! The average amount of weight gain put on during pregnancy is fourteen kilos and those ...

Physiotherapy Rehabilitation of Colles' Fractures

By Jonathan Blood-Smyth · 15 years ago

A fall on the outstretched hand (FOOSH) is a common occurrence and often results in a Colles' fracture, a fracture of the distal inch of the radius and ulna next to the wrist. Treatment is ...

Physiotherapy Management of Total Knee Replacement

By Jonathan Blood-Smyth · 15 years ago

Osteoarthritis is a time related joint degenerative condition, the incidence rising rapidly with age, making it the commonest arthritic condition in the world. It develops in various joints in the human body and in some ...

How Physiotherapists Treat Piriformis Syndrome

By Jonathan Blood-Smyth · 15 years ago

Since 1928 Piriformis Syndrome has been described as a source of buttock and leg pain, often confused with sciatic type leg pain of lumbar origin. The sciatic nerve and the piriformis muscle lie very close ...

How Physiotherapists Treat Back Pain

By Jonathan Blood-Smyth · 16 years ago

Low back pain, back pain, lumbar pain, spinal pain, all are names for the troublesome and very common problem which affects many of us at certain times in our lives. Physiotherapists assess and treat large ...