Calf strains are a common injury.  So, whether you’re experiencing dull aching pain during or after exercise or a sudden debilitating pain after a sudden movement, you’re in good company. That’s probably not a lot of comfort right now. You want to know what’s...

Do you sometimes feel a twinge in your shoulder? Maybe just a niggling pain? Or do you get an odd crackling sensation every now and again? (It’s called crepitus, which we think sounds just like it feels.) The shoulder can be a pretty unstable joint – not surprising...

“Oh my God Becky, look at her butt…” 90s music has a lot to answer for, but today we’re embracing Sir Mix-A-Lot (with apologies to anyone too young or too old to know what we’re on about) and singing about butts. Since we’re physiotherapists perhaps we should rephrase...

The hip flexors are a group of muscles that play an important role in the movement and stability of the hip joint. The primary hip flexors are the psoas major (pronounced ‘sow-ass’) and the iliacus (known collectively as the ‘iliopsoas’) and the rectus femoris (one of...

Have you heard about Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo or BPPV? Anyone who has experienced its awful symptoms of rocking and swaying and other strange movements of the earth around you will know all about it. It sounds scary, doesn’t it? The good news is ‘benign’...

Perhaps your third and fourth toes are going a little numb, particularly when you’re wearing tight shoes. Maybe you’ve started experiencing little tingles and shocks when doing burpees or ballroom dancing (or anytime the ball of your foot is bearing your weight).  Or...

Happy New Year! We hope you’ve had a wonderful festive period and are excited for the New Year. If you’re anything like us, those few days (or maybe more) away from work was a bit of a circuit breaker; the time off gave us a chance to think not just about work, but...

Christmas is coming. Hooray! And with it often comes too much food and drink leaving many of us feeling stuffed, sluggish and soooooooooo not looking forward to dieting in January. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Many traditional Christmas foods like turkey and...

Have you felt a weird numbness or tingling in one hand when you wake? The first couple of times you woke up like this you probably assumed that you’d somehow slept on it and ignored the pins and needles. But then it kept happening. Then it started affecting your...

You’ve probably visited the physiotherapist after injuries and been referred before or after surgeries for rehabilitation. But as we age, perhaps we should consider going to the physiotherapist as more of a routine health check. You go to the dentist even when there’s...