Running Injury Prevention – How Physiotherapy Can Help
Most running injuries are due to overuse. The ‘Big 5 running injuries’ of runners knee, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonopathy, shin splints and illiotibial band (ITB) syndrome all fall into the overuse injury category. Any injury which stops you from training is frustrating; but it is possible to prevent overuse running injuries and physiotherapists can play a major role in this.
Knee Replacement Surgery – New Range of Motion
There are so many concerns that you will be thinking about before going into an evasive surgery such as knee replacement. You will need to become as educated as you can about the subject beforehand. That is probably why you are here. Writing down all of your concerns so that you have a reference will keep a tight checklist of things you should ask your doctor about. Watch as many videos as you can and keep up with articles and news about your procedure so that you’ll have peace of mind.
Whiplash Associated Disorder – Nervous System Changes
Once an injury occurs such as to the muscles and joints of the neck in whiplash injury, the inflammatory process from the damage excites the local nerves and makes them hypersensitive to incoming stimuli. Sleeping pain receptors (nerves that do nothing most of the time) are woken up and start sending barrages of pain signals towards the nervous system. Any unwise stress or movement on the damaged areas is rewarded by a severe volley of pain signals.
Whiplash Injury and Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD)
Due the very large number of vehicle journeys undertaken each day across the country there are a correspondingly large number of vehicle accidents or road traffic accidents RTAs. Rear shunt accidents, where a vehicle hits the back of a stationary or slow moving vehicle in front, are some of the commonest accident types and can result in what is known as a whiplash injury. The neck is a particularly vulnerable structure in such an accident, as it is unsupported by the seat and the heavy brain and skull is stuck on top of a narrow bony and muscular structure.
Fix Your Neck Pain on Your Own – Self Myofascial Release
There are all kinds of new massage therapy techniques out there designed to relieve your muscles of all types of aches and pains. One of those new therapies is called myofascial release, which deals with massaging the soft muscle tissues in the body. To understand just how this treatment works exactly, you need to familiarize yourself with what a fascia is and how they work.
