If you’ve been dealing with chronic low back pain (LBP), you’ll be interested to know that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently published guidelines on how to manage long standing back pain. This is a significant development in the field of healthcare, and it can have a positive impact on your well-being. Let’s break …
Pilates for everybody! The joy of Pilates is that it really can be a great exercise or activity for EVERYBODY! Any of these sound familiar?! They are just a few comments we sometimes hear! However, Pilates has the potential to be the one of THE best movement activities for people who want to be in …
Regular swimming has been proven to help reduce the risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. It’s also beneficial for those with arthritis, obesity, and joint pain, as the buoyancy of water reduces the impact on joints. Being active in water can be transformative! As well as being a …
Osteoarthritis (or OA) is a degenerative joint disease that occurs when the cartilage that cushions the ends of bones in a joint gradually wears away over time. As the cartilage deteriorates, OA can cause pain, stiffness, and swelling in the affected joint. Osteoarthritis can affect any joint in the body, but it most commonly occurs …
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Blue Monday is the name given to a day in January claimed to be the most depressing day of the year. Typically the third Monday of the month. What can you do to make it less blue?
It’s an ‘Active Advent Calendar’! It may be a little too late for this year’s advent, but this study, which looked at a novel way of trying to increase activity in more sedentary people, is a fab idea and demonstrated some promise in it’s concept! We all know that being active is good for us in …
Exercise is almost always a key part of your recovery if you’ve had an injury. Exercises can be used to help improve your strength, flexibility, movement control, posture, balance and no end of other ways. We make sure that all our patients receive a customised set of exercises, designed to help you the most depending …
Rehab Guru – goPhysio delighted to have this new exercise tool on board! Read More »
National Stress Awareness Day aims to make people aware of the impact stress can have on everyday life and aims to help people identify ways to deal with this stress.
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recently produced new guidance for the management of Osteoarthritis. With the condition affecting 520 million people around the world and rising cases (there has been a 48% increase globally in the number of people with OA between 2009 to 2019), it has a huge impact on peoples lives. So, …
Osteoporosis comes with much worry and fear surrounding it so it’s great to see some updated guidance around exercise and physical activity for osteoporosis.
