Exercises For Tight Trapezius Muscles
Physio Shane is here to help the tight muscles between your neck and shoulders. He’s got some exercises to help you ease up that tension and feel better. Try them out and let us know how you get on!
Is Running Bad For My Knees?
We often hear that running is bad for your knees and will end up giving you arthritis. Physio Neil investigates the latest research.
6 Tips For Relieving QL Pain
It is estimated that 60-70% of people will experience lower back pain at some stage in their lifetime. One of the most common causes of lower back pain is pain coming from the “QL” muscle.
How Can I Improve My Posture Working From Home?
We’ve all faced challenges whilst working from home, not least where to set up our workstation and ensuring it suits our bodies. Creaky necks and achy lower backs are common in our clinics these days and, as always, prevention is better than cure.
Is Foam Rolling Worth The Pain?
Myofascial release focuses on reducing and easing the tension in trigger points located in muscle. Foam rolling is a myofascial release technique you can do yourself, which can help relieve muscle tightness, soreness and improve range of motion.
Managing Acute Soft Tissue Injuries With PEACE & LOVE
The rehabilitation of soft tissue injuries can be complex, to say the least. Over the years there has been much debate in determining best practice in the acute management of soft tissue injuries.
8 Ways To Improve Your Golf Swing And Reduce Your Handicap
Have you recently started playing golf? Are you an experienced player tired of taking longer than your golf friends to get around the course? Everyone is competitive, it’s in our nature. No matter what task is at hand, we always strive to do our best. It’s no different when it comes to playing golf.
What Is That Pain In My Shoulder?
Your shoulder has a lot going on in and around it; a few joints, plenty of muscles and tendons and loads of ligaments. It can be hard to say exactly what’s causing pain in your shoulder and more often than not there can be a few things going on.
Stretches To Do At Your Desk
Working from home can take its toll and it’s important to change position every 30-minutes or so. You might find that your shoulders, back or neck aches from hours sitting awkwardly?
What Is Iliotibial Band Syndrome?
Iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS) is a common overuse knee injury often affecting runners and sometimes cyclists. Pain is felt on the outside part of the knee when bending, and sometimes it causes referred hip pain.
Running Injuries: Gait Analysis
As the last part of our running series, Physio Aisling is going to delve a little into the world of gait analysis, and the current thoughts on gait analysis and gait re-training in running.
What You Can Do To Help Tight Hips
This blog looks at other things to try and help out those tight hips! Physio Neil says this is quite a personal blog for him as it’s something he’s experienced in the past, particularly during marathon training. Here are some of his additional tips that have both worked for him, as well as for his patients.
Running Injuries: Which Muscles Should Runners Strengthen?
For part 4 of our running series, we’re going to talk a bit about what muscles you should work on, and how!
Running Injuries: Risk Factors
Welcome to Part 3 of our running injury series! In this blog, Physio Aisling will talk about some of the main risk factors for developing running related injuries, and what you can do to try and prevent injury.
Running Injuries: Common Myths About Running
To follow on from last week’s video, this week Physio Aisling talks through some of the common myths we often hear about running.
Helping Hands With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disease that causes inflammation in your joints, with the main symptoms being pain and swelling particularly in the hands and feet. It’s the second most common form of arthritis in Ireland and typically affects women more than men.
What You Need To Know About Knee Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis of the knee is the most common form of arthritis and usually occurs most often in people aged 50 or above.
Everything You Need To Know About Frozen Shoulder
Frozen Shoulder (FS for short) is characterised by severe shoulder or upper arm pain with restricted shoulder movement both actively (you are doing the movement) and passively (the clinician is testing the movement).
