Pain Management

As I have aged over my twenty years as a physiotherapist my clients have aged with me and more and more they are asking me for treatment and exercises to help with their arthritic hip, knee or low back.

This group of clients is one of the most satisfying to treat because with some fairly straight forward strategies I can have a big impact on their quality of life. “But you can’t fix a worn out joint!” I hear you say, and this the question my long term clients often have for me.

There are a number of potential causes of head and facial pain – one of the most common (and the main one helped by physiotherapy) is referred pain from the cervical spine (neck).

Our spines are made up of vertebrae which are connected by discs. The discs act as shock absorbers in our spine, and both allow and limit movement.

The groin refers to the area where the upper thigh meets the pelvis on either side of the pubic area. It is marked by a fold or depression at the junction of the lower abdomen and the inner part of the thigh.

The illiotibial band is a sheath of thick, fibrous connective tissue that attaches to the top of your pelvis and runs down the outside of the thigh, crossing the knee joint and attaching to the shin bone.