Aquatic Hydrotherapy / Physiotherapy: Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries
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Aquatic Hydrotherapy / Physiotherapy: Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries

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Rehabilitation for sports and traumatic injuries may often require patients to stop training and literally rest. And knowing athletes and sporty individuals, this will frustrate them. A lot. Let me give you an example, say ankle injuries, which are the most common musculoskeletal injury that happen in both recreational and competitive athletes. Unfortunately, ankle sprains…

Compartment Syndrome Physiotherapy
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Compartment Syndrome Physiotherapy

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Compartment syndrome is a very serious medical condition, and can cause loss of limb and even life. It happens when the presurre in the muscle compartments is very high that it squeezes and compresses, causing lack of blood flow to the areas, and this can compromise the structures there. Think of it like asphyxiation to…

Calf Strain Physiotherapy
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Calf Strain Physiotherapy

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Calf may sound like baby cows, but here it refers to the muscles at the back of our leg. These calf muscle injuries or strains are pretty common actually, for: joggers / runners football / soccer players dancers basketball / volleyball players badminton / tennis / squash players gymnasts …and even normal working people People…

Achilles Tendon Physiotherapy
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Achilles Tendon Physiotherapy

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Our achilles tendon is the strongest and largest tendon of the entire body. It attaches to three muscles which are: plantaris gastrocnemius soleus connecting them to our calcaneal bone (commonly known as our heel). It’s located from the back of our ankle to about one third height of the back of our legs (around 6…

How to Prevent Ankle Sprains
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How to Prevent Ankle Sprains

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Ankle sprains are downright both a terrible experience, and worse, they can happen and recur too easily. Especially if left untreated or as many patients think “ankle sprains can heal on their own”. If you have sprained your ankle once, it is at greater risk for reinjury in the future, so if the ligaments did…