You don't need to be an elite athlete to sustain a hamstring injury. It's one of the most common injuries in sports like football, soccer and basketball, which require a high...

Did you know that the posterior chain muscles (the lumbar extensors, glutes, hamstrings and calf) could have a huge impact on your sporting performance? Tight hamstrings, recurrent muscle tears and lower back strains can all be signs of muscle imbalance within this group. A physiothera...

How's Your Running Form? Running is quite often seen as a good way to get in shape, with little thought given to the proper form or biomechanics involved. Recent studies have shown that as many as 79% of runners will suffer from a running related injury in any year. Therefore all r...

Plantar Fasciitis Up to 1 in 10 people will suffer from Plantar Fasciitis (persistent pain along the arch of the foot) in their lifetime. Physiotherapy can benefit people suffering Plantar Fasciitis, though a study of over 800,000 people showed that only 7% of patients were prescribed ...

If you take people without back pain and put them through a CT scan or MRI, you get some
surprising results! 37% of 20 year olds 30% of 20 year olds 80% of 50 year olds 60% of 50 year olds 96% of 80 year olds ...