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

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…

Clavicle Fracture Physiotherapy
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Clavicle Fracture Physiotherapy

Clavicle fractures are also known as broken collar bones, are very common injuries (especially in children and young adults). Most of the time, the causes are car accidents (typically drivers) falling on outstretched hand direct blows such as sports injuries or accidents Note: collar bone fractures are the MOST commonly fractured bone in the body…

Burning Shoulder Pain Physio
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Burning Shoulder Pain Physio

Burning shoulder pain can be an unusually uncomfortable and even painfully unpleasant experience. Some patients have that burning feel all the time; whereas for others this feeling can be there sometimes only. It can be in a very tiny pinpoint area; or over a large area. Many of these patients who suffer from burning shoulder…

3 things you can do to help your stiff shoulder
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3 things you can do to help your stiff shoulder

Our shoulder joint is a very mobile-yet-complex joint in our body which combines both moving joints and muscles to allow the shoulder the most movement in the entire body. Medically, our shoulders are a type of ball-and-socket joint called the glenohumeral joint where there humeral (long bone of the upper arm, the ball part) rests…

Bankart Lesion Physiotherapy
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Bankart Lesion Physiotherapy

A bankart injury refers to the tear of the glenoid labrum in the shoulder, and it’s a pretty common shoulder injury. What happens is that the shoulder dislocates forward (medically termed as “anteriorly”) and this specificly damages the lower portion of the cartilage in the shoulder socket. Usually happens to younger and active individuals such…

Biceps Tendinitis Physiotherapy
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Biceps Tendinitis Physiotherapy

Biceps tendinitis is actually a quite common cause of shoulder pain and shoulder impingement (compression of tissue with movement). Biceps tendon inflammation (tendinitis) tends to happen to individuals who do lots of repetitive, over-the-head movements. It also tends to be a wear-and-tear (ie happens over a period of time), typically with aches and pains just…

Whiplash Physiotherapy
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Whiplash Physiotherapy

Whiplash is a neck injury that’s caused by a sudden powerful lashing force, causing the head and neck to undergo a quick back-to-front movement, similar to how a whip or towel is cracked. Most of the time, it’s caused by a vehicle slamming into the back of your vehicle…but that being said, whiplash also happens…

Acromicioclavicular (AC) Joint (Shoulder) Injuries
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Acromicioclavicular (AC) Joint (Shoulder) Injuries

Our acromioclavicular joint (also called “AC” joints) refers to the joint at the top of our shoulder, where the acromion (shoulder blade) attaches to the clavicle (the collarbone). That’s why it’s called acromioclavicular joint. These kind of painful shoulder injuries typically happens due to sudden traumatic events such as sports or falling directly on the…

Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder) Physiotherapy
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Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder) Physiotherapy

The “real name” of frozen shoulder is adhesive capsulitis, and this condition affects up to 5% of the population. It affects more in women than men, typically above 45 years old. To add to this – out of 10 people who develops frozen shoulder in ONE shoulder, there’s a 20-30% chance they will develop frozen…