You may experience pain: in the hip/thigh/buttock area. when lying on your side or with direct pressure. increasing with exercise...

By Andrea Cutrupi How do you know that it’s only an ankle sprain, and not anything worse like a fracture? Ankle sprains are one of the...

by Andrea Cutrupi, Senior Physiotherapist Our joints, sometimes make a variety of noises and we want to know what these noises are and...

We often see injured runners in our clinic who are training towards an event or have taken up running after a long break. A weak core,...

Shin splints, or Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (MTSS) to use the more medical term, is a common injury amongst runners. Like so many of...

By Andrea Cutrupi Football is a contact sport that requires physical attitude and the ability to play at high levels of intensity....

Written by Zenia Wood on the Physio Network Ice is an extremely hot (or rather, cool) topic in sports medicine and acute injury rehab,...

As the holiday season approaches, many of you may be heading off to visit friends and family. You may find your self sleeping on a...

#1 Better exercise. Relaxed, less stressed muscles will give you increased range of motion during your workouts. Your body will be far...

Late August 2020 I sustained multiple spinal injuries and a knee injury falling from my horse in a training exercise. It was just one of...

Each day we will be adding a Nailsea Physio Tip on how to stay injury free or manage those little niggles. Day 14 We thought with it...

Sadly the public perception of physiotherapy ins't a very positive one. This is mostly due to the diminishing services experienced in the NHS. The cost cutting of the physiotherapy service within the NHS has led to tying physio's hands. They are limited on how much they are allowed to do, how often or how many times they can see a patient. I feel for them. So many patients report just being handed a set of exercises and sent on their way..... We offer so much more here a

There are multiple terms used to describe activating your core muscles, some examples include; “zip up”, “engage core”, “brace core” and...

I like to visualise the core as being similar to a wooden whisky barrel.  As the image above shows, the barrel (Core muscles) acts as a...

The knee is a complicated joint and there a variety of injuries that can occur, but the two most common injuries are patellofemoral pain...

Modern lifestyle has got us sitting for hours at a time in a poor position, whether it’s at a desk for work or web browsing at home or...

Sports massage is a form of deep tissue massage that is mostly focussed on releasing tension and breaking down muscular adhesions brought...

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