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Every body has 2 sacro-iliac joints (S.I. joints) between the fused sacrum at the base of the spine and the pelvis.
Engaging in sports and physical activities brings numerous health benefits, but it also comes with the risk of injuries.
The core message is that staying positive can help you to cope better with chronic pain. Your attitude and beliefs about your pain can affect the outcome and duration but that doesn’t mean you are imagining it.
Recently a new condition has been described nicknamed Texter’s neck. The angle people hold their head to look at the mobile phone screen puts 60lbs/27kg pressure on the neck.
Strains and sprains are soft tissue injuries affecting tendons, muscles or ligaments.
After the spine, shoulders are the most common joint in the body to be painful. However a painful shoulder is not necessarily a "frozen shoulder"; there are many other causes of pain.
Sciatica is defined in the medical dictionary as "pain down the back of the leg in the area supplied by the sciatic nerve". The sciatic nerve is the largest in the body and is about the thickness of your little finger.
Not every painful elbow is a "tennis elbow" but this is the most common diagnosis. This presents as pain starting at the bony lump on the outer aspect of the elbow and radiating into the forearm.
25% of the younger population suffer with a condition called "anterior knee pain"- pain under or around the knee cap (patella). This presents as pain and clicking aggravated by kneeling, squatting, prolonged sitting and stairs.
Headaches have many causes, however many originate from the neck and can be easily assessed and treated by a Chartered Physiotherapist.
Apparently our increasingly sedentary lifestyle means that we are burning, on average, 21 times less energy than people 50 years ago! In the UK only 14% adults exercise regularly.
Proprioception is the mechanism by which your body recognises movement and position- you should know where your body parts are in relation to each other without having to look!
