Contents What is trigger point therapy? Trigger point therapy is a type of neuromuscular therapy that’s specifically designed to speed up recovery from injury correct muscular imbalances and relieve pain Your physiotherapist will stretch the muscle and then apply pressure to areas of muscle tightness or ‘knots’ and you may feel radiating or localized pain…
Serial casting refers to the development and wearing of a series of padded casts in order to increase range of movement and muscle length. It is mainly used as a treatment procedure for individuals who have neurological conditions such as stroke, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy that cause muscle tightness and reduced range of movement…
Contractures refer to very advanced stages of soft tissue stiffness, which can affect all forms of soft tissues such as skin joint tendon ligament muscle fascia etc Contractures tend to be very stiff and hard, and these are what that we physiotherapists truly dislike, because it means very, very limited active range of movement strength…
Contents Pediatric Stretching Programs Pediatric stretching programs are physiotherapy-designed programs to help children and kids to improve flexibility posture mal-alignment help recovery after disease or injuries. What are Stretching Programs? Stretching programs are an important part of many physiotherapy treatment packages. What happens is that usually after a period of injury or disease, an area…
Contents Paediatric Strengthening Exercises Physiotherapy Service Pediatric physiotherapy service is designed to meet the individual needs of your child. Muscle weakness in children can be caused through a number of disorders and strengthening exercises can be used to help overcome this. We have to understand and factor in the complex nature of the development process…
Chest physiotherapy, also known as respiratory physio, is done specificly to improve breathing by direct removal using suctioning indirect removal of fluids such as phlegm and muscus by targeted percussions, positioning Chest physiotherapy are often done in hospitals, nursing homes as well as home physiotherapy, as these patients tends to be more sedentary, bed/home bound,…
Baby-wearing is a fairly convenient and comfortable way to carry babies around, but when not done right, it can cause some complaints and issues Contents Shoulder Pain & Neck Pain The large majority of caregivers tend to carry babies on their front using a soft structured carrier, or full buckled carrier. In this position, the…
Many of our patients call this common condition as “slipped disc”, and it has many names such as herniated disc, disc bulge, rupture spinal disc and even compressed disc. Contents Structure of a spinal disc A spinal or more accurately, an intervertebral disc sits between two spine bones (called vertebra) and it’s #1 role is…
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