The Injury Hub

Joint Stiffness: Info, Symptoms & Physiotherapy Treatment.

Our Chartered Physiotherapists across Ireland are experts in the causes, symptoms and treatment of joint stiffness.

The Injury Hub: Joint Stiffness

What is joint stiffness?

Most people will not feel like exercising when their joints are painful, inflamed or stiff. However, an appropriate and regular exercise program can help reduce stiffness and pain, increase flexibility, improve endurance, develop muscle strength, improve sleep and keep bone and cartilage healthy.

Joint Stiffness can be caused by injury or disease and is a common symptom in arthritic conditions. It can often be one of the earliest symptoms of arthritis.

Middle aged woman suffering with osgood schlatters and knee pain

How We Can Help.

Symptoms, Treatment & How We Can Help Your Recovery.

Learn about common joint stiffness symptoms, effective treatments, and how our expert team supports your recovery journey every step of the way.

Joint stiffness is gradual loss in flexibility of a joint or a reduction in the range of motions.

Joint stiffness occurs mainly due to arthritis or following an injury to a joint which is accompanied by muscle spasm.

Joint stiffness last less than 30 minutes would tend to be associated more so with Osteoarthritis. While that lasting more than 30 minutes is found in inflammatory arthritis such as Rheumatoid Arthritis or the family of spondyloarthropathies.

Although joint stiffness may not appear to be life threatening it can be painful and limit your independence.

It is important that you seek advice and assessment from a qualified health care professional such as your GP or one of our highly trained Physiotherapists.

This will include:

  • Range-of-motion exercises

  • Strengthening exercises

  • Aerobic exercise

Our Chartered Physiotherapists will also carry out a thorough assessment to determine the causes of your joint stiffness to help tackle this problem. They utilise manual joint mobilisations if they feel this treatment approach may help and is not contraindicated.

Your GP may also prescribe disease modifying drugs if your joint stiffness is disease related and they may help to slow down disease progression and improve symptoms.

Our highly skilled Physiotherapists can help tailor an exercise program to fit your specific needs. This would likely include three components:

  • Range of Motion exercises,

  • Strengthening exercises

  • Aerobic Exercises.

These exercise plans will significantly help with reducing any joint stiffness that you may be experiencing, so get in touch with us today and we can begin the necessary treatment straight away.

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I went to Olga for 4 or 5 weeks before the marathon this year for hip pain. I was contemplating not running as my long run training had become so painful on the hip. Olga treated with dry needling and massage and over 2 sessions, I saw a big difference. I continued a weekly session to keep me loose and followed her exercise plan. I completed the marathon with no hip issues and felt like my recovery after was a lot faster than previous years.
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I had a painful trapped nerve in my neck which caused pain together with pins and needles running into my arm and hand. I attended Mohammed twice over a period of two weeks. It completely resolved after second appointment. Mohammed is an expert professional at what he does. I would highly recommend his services. I would definitely recommend Dylan for any physio needs.
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