Is working from home making you ill and injured? Are you in pain & stiffer than ever? Are you feeling isolated and unsupported? The risks are real and you are not alone. This survival guide will help you make better choices to reduce pain & stiffness and look after your body and mind. What are you waiting for? Follow our top tips to move more, organise yourself and have a positive impact on your physical and mental health
Back Pain - A Self Help Guide
Back pain is very common. It’s frustrating at best and debilitating at worst. This guide will help you develop strategies for long term change to get rid of back pain and stay pain free long term. No magic bullet or ‘Guru’ advice here, just sensible and actionable tips allowing you to take control and start your journey to a pain free back.
Animal flows - What, How and Why?
Animal flows are a great addition to any exercise plan, warm up routine or injury prevention plan. Learning to move like a monkey, frog, or bear helps to build full body strength, mobility and motor control which in turn will make you a more awesome human and less prone to injury. This blog with video tutorials will explain what these movements are, how to utilise them and why you should should be doing them
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Stiff achy hips? Tightness or weakness and what can you do about it?
Tight shoulders? This routine will fix you up
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Back Strengthening Exercises for Desk-Based Workers
Running injury prevention; do you need a musculoskeletal screening?
Sports-specific screening available!
Musculoskelatal screenings are available from our team of experienced and expert Sports Physiotherapists – but what is it? Imagine, someone could look you over and help flag issues before they become injuries!
Here's what Jonny says:
“A 60-minute assessment which will include a full body assessment of flexibility, strength, balance and body control to highlight potential for injury or problem shoot issues experienced by a runner. This may also include treatment if needed as well as education on issues flagged up with suggestions of how to fix these.”
We have a broad spectrum of sports expertise here at Physio Effect – everything from running, martial arts and football to rugby, mountain biking and roller derby! Whatever your sport or activity, whatever your level, we’ll be able to assess and treat you!
#KnowledgeShare – Shoulders Month – Rotator Cuff
#KnowledgeShare – Shoulders Month – Mobility Exercises
#KnowledgeShare – Back Mobility
Foam Rolling: What is it? What’s the Evidence? How to apply it!
Self-myofascial release is a name given to the use of equipment or tools to perform self-massage and stretching with the aim of increasing joint range of motion and improving muscle recovery and performance. One of the most commonly used tools is a foam roller. You will often see people in gyms attempting to manoeuvre their bodies in various positions over one of these rollers.