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Sports Injuries

Participating in sporting activities is great for your overall well-being. It's fun, it's motivating, and it's keeping you fit. If you've injured yourself doing the very thing that is keeping you healthy, you want to get back to it in the quickest, most cost-effective way possible.

Injury in sport can occur due to a specific incident or due to repetitive stress of a particular part of your body. A typical injury might involve a sprained ligament, a strained muscle, a swollen joint, an inflamed nerve or a fractured bone.

We can offer you an accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and experienced guidance to return to your previous activity, and prevent it happening again. Call us for advice - you will probably feel better after just one treatment, and we can tell you what you need to do to get back to full fitness.

Work Related Injuries

Injuries can occur in the work place, while travelling to and from work or during any work-related social activity. Injuries can be of an acute nature like heavy lifting or falls, or from postural problems or repetitive mechanical stress like sitting at a computer.

 

At In Touch Physiotherapy we accurately assess, diagnose and treat work-place injuries using firm connective tissue massage, joint mobilisation and/or manipulation and our educational skills to assist you in understanding what has gone wrong and what stretches and strengthening exercises can be done to help you fix the problem yourself.

 

We work closely with general practitioners, specialistsand ACC to ensure that appropriate management is provided to you for your recovery and return to work. We also provide advice and education regarding prevention from further injury, ergonomic and work-place assessment and graduated return to work if necessary.

 

 

Headaches

Headache affects approximately two-thirds of the population through a number of differing causes. The most common causes are viral illness, migraine, cervical headache and stress/tension headache. Physiotherapists can determine whether your headache is coming from structures in your neck.

 

Headache of cervical origin can be located at the base of the skull, behind the eyes or in the temples, or even at the top of your head. If we can find tender points in your neck we can certainly help.

 

Treatment usually involves mobilisation of stiff joints in the top of your neck, massage of tightened muscles, acupuncture, and teaching you the appropriate stretching and strengthening exercises to improve your flexibility and correct your posture. You will probably feel better straight away.

Back Pain

Low back pain is extremely common and affects most people at some stage in their lives. It can be extremely debilitating, and if you don't manage it properly the first time, it can affect the quality of the rest of your life.

 

There are a number of causes of low back pain which include disc bulge, joint irritation, muscle spasm, ligament sprain and stress fracture. Problems in your low back can also produce pain that radiates down your leg towards the foot, which is commonly known as sciatica.

 

With careful assessment, we can determine exactly what you need to do to relieve your pain, promote healing, avoid further damage, and get back to your normal activities. Rest alone has been shown to be poor advice. We can show you the quickest way to long-term recovery.

Acupuncture

 

Originating in China in 2000 BC, acupuncture is now recognised in the Western World and research now shows scientific evidence of how it works.

 

Solid, sterile filament needles are used to:

• Decrease pain

• Reduce swelling

• Improve quality of movement

• Increase range of movement

 

In Touch Physiotherapy offers acupuncture as part of a patient's treatment when assessment indicates that it could be appropriate.  The results commonly found after a treatment session is as effective and in some cases more effective than manual therapy without the ‘post treatment muscle soreness’

We offer a range of treatment modalities including

 

• Ultrasound

• Interferential

• Manual therapy (Joint mobilisation)

• Soft tissue massage

• Stretching and Strengthening Programs

• Strapping for sports injuries