Leading an active lifestyle can be extremely fulfilling, but it comes with risk. Sports-related injuries and strains can happen in recreational sports such as biking and contact sports like football.

Bell’s palsy is a term given to the sudden onset of facial muscle weakness. For the most part, Bell’s palsy is temporary for most and recovery can be within a couple of weeks or complete recovery in six months.

Sciatica is the term that is used to describe the pain caused by the irritation and/or inflammation of the sciatic nerve. Let’s take a look at some of the symptoms of sciatica.

TENS is a kind of electrotherapy. It stands for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, and it is the most common type of physiotherapy treatment used for pain management.

The essence of electrotherapy is directing small currents of electricity through a patient’s skin, and by doing so either encourage muscles to heal or to block the electrical neural signals that tell the brain to experience pain.

Manipulative therapy is used on a variety of muscular and joint issues, and it’s one of the most effective tools in the physiotherapist’s arsenal. Physiotherapists are highly knowledgeable when it comes to the intricacies of bones, muscles, tendons, cartilage and joints of the human body, so they can manipulate patients to relieve pain and encourage healthy movement and alignment.

Physiotherapy treatment involves hands-on massage, manipulation and mobilisation. This makes it tricky to treat patients when social distancing is in place in times of COVID-19.

An injury to any joint can be painful. Elbow injuries are painful and left untreated can result in worsening problems. An elbow injury can manifest as a dull, constant, nagging pain even when the arm is at rest.

Shoulder impingement can cause severe pain and can even make you take a break from playing your favourite sports. However, there are luckily a few things that you and your physiotherapist can try to help your shoulder feeling as good as new in a relatively short amount of time.

Football injuries are as familiar to football as beer is to England. Nobody is ever safe from the kids playing in their backyards to the superstars in exotic leagues. We can always be certain that every once in a while, somebody will get hurt.