Physiotherapy:
Our physiotherapists are United Kingdom licensed professionals with extensive knowledge and training. We strive to help you get out of pain and get back to your normal routine as soon as possible. We use a hands-on approach. We will try our best to improve or restore mobility, help patients reduce pain. We will try our best to improve or restore mobility, help patients reduce pain. We mostly use therapeutic procedures and modalities as follows:
- Home management program
- Manual (hands-on therapy)
- Muscle tension release
- Myofascial release
- Postural corrections
- Soft tissue mobilization
- Therapeutic exercises
- Trigger point release
Home Management Program
Home exercise program is one of the most important aspects of physiotherapy. Research has shown that patients who adhere to their prescribed exercises are significantly better at achieving their goals and demonstrate a greater increase in physical function.
Manual (hands-on therapy)
It is a specialized form of hands-on technique. In manual therapy, practitioners use their hands to put pressure on muscle tissue and manipulate joint in an attempt to decrease pain caused by muscle spasm, muscle tension and joint dysfunction.
Muscle tension release
Muscle tension in our body can create serious muscle imbalance. At our clinic we will work on your muscles and relieve tightness in muscle fiber. If needed, we will manipulate soft body tissue to enhance person’s health and well-being.
Myofascial Release
Myofascial Release is a safe and very effective hands-on technique that involves applying gentle sustained pressure into the Myofascial connective tissue restrictions to eliminate pain and restore motion. The use of Myofascial Release allows us to look at each patient as a unique individual. Our one-on-one therapy sessions are hands-on treatments during which our therapists use a multitude of Myofascial Release techniques and movement therapy. We promote independence through education in proper body mechanics and movement, self treatment instruction, enhancement of strength, improved flexibility, and postural and movement awareness. Each Myofascial Release Treatment session is performed directly on skin. This enables the therapist to accurately detect fascial restrictions and apply the appropriate amount of sustained pressure to facilitate release of the fascia.
Postural corrections
Your physiotherapist is the ideal health care professional to identify your posture style and provide hands-on treatment and posture correction exercises. Hands-on techniques followed by home exercises that can help patients to address malalignments.
Soft tissue mobilization
It is a hand-on technique which a physiotherapist uses on your ligaments, muscles and fascia with a goal to break down the adhesions. STM helps in reduction of pain, increased mobility, flexibility, range of motion, increased mobility, flexibility, range of motion, increased circulation and reduction in soft tissue tension.
Therapeutic Exercises
Refer to wide range of physical activities that focus on restoring and maintaining balance. The goal of therapeutic exercise is to return an injured patient to a fully functioning state and to rehabilitate the patient to maximum.
Trigger point release
Our myofascial pain often results from muscle injury or repetitive strain or stress. When stressed or injured, muscle often form trigger point, like contracted knots that can cause pain and tightness. At our clinic we try to release trigger point to help you get better and get relieved from pain and tightness.
Acupuncture:
The most widespread application of acupuncture is for pain relief, most commonly musculoskeletal pain but also other forms of chronic pain. Acupuncture is practiced using the Principle of evidence medicine.
Western medical acupuncture is a therapeutic modality involving the insertion of fine needles; it is an adaptation of Chinese acupuncture using current knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, and the principles of evidence based medicine.
Treatment with acupuncture follows when a conventional medical examination, appropriate investigations and diagnosis confirm that the symptoms are suitable for treatment with acupuncture. Needles are inserted and stimulated to obtain the required physiological effect, and may be local to, or segmentally linked with, the presenting condition. The number of needles inserted varies upon the condition. Acupuncture stimulates the nerves in skin and muscle, and can produce a variety of effects which helps in treating the condition. The practitioner will assess each patient’s case and treatment will be tailored to the individual.
Treatment might be once a week to begin with and a typical course of treatment lasts 5 to 8 sessions.
During the session, you’ll usually be asked to sit or lie down. You may also be asked to remove some clothes so the practitioner can access certain parts of your body.
The needles used are fine and are usually a few centimetres long. The needles we use are single-use, pre-sterilised needles that are disposed of immediately after use.
Acupuncture is generally very safe.
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