Lower Back Pain: Common Causes, Self-Care, and When to See a Physiotherapist
Most lower back pain is not caused by serious damage, and most of it settles. Here is what tends to cause it, what helps early on, and the signs worth taking seriously.
Articles
Understanding your body, explained plainly.
Practical, evidence-informed articles on the problems we see most often. Each one explains what tends to cause a condition, what usually helps, how long recovery realistically takes, and when it is worth being assessed.
Neck Pain Explained: Common Causes and How Physiotherapy Can Help
Neck pain is rarely about one bad movement. It usually builds from sustained positions and load, and it often travels into the head, shoulder or arm.
Knee Pain: Common Causes by Age and Activity, and What Helps
Knee pain in a teenage footballer, a 40-year-old runner and a 70-year-old walker usually has quite different causes. Age and activity narrow the picture considerably.
Frozen Shoulder: The Stages, a Realistic Timeline, and What Recovery Involves
Frozen shoulder follows a recognisable pattern through distinct stages, and it takes considerably longer than most people expect. Knowing the stages makes it far easier to handle.
Tennis Elbow: What Causes It and How It Is Usually Managed
Most people with tennis elbow have never played tennis. It is a tendon load problem, and it responds to the right kind of loading rather than to rest alone.
Rotator Cuff Injuries: Symptoms, Causes and How Rehabilitation Works
The rotator cuff keeps the shoulder centred while the arm moves. Many cuff tears are managed successfully without surgery, which surprises most people.
Returning to Sport After Injury: How Rehabilitation Works
Being pain-free and being ready to play are not the same thing. The gap between them is where most re-injuries happen.
Physiotherapy After Surgery: What to Expect and a Realistic Timeline
Surgery repairs a structure. Rehabilitation restores the function around it, and that second part determines a great deal about the final result.
Information is provided for general education. It is not a promise of a specific outcome and it does not replace an individual assessment.