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Symptoms and Tips for Elbow pain
Elbow Pain
Elbow pain is often caused by overuse. Many sports, hobbies and jobs require repetitive hand, wrist or arm movements. Elbow pain may occasionally be due to arthritis, but in general, your elbow joint is much less prone to wear-and-tear damage than are many other joints.
If you have "tennis elbow" you may have some of the below characteristic symptoms: Pain on the outside of your elbow - to touch or when performing daily tasks such as using the mouse on your computer, gripping or unscrewing lids on objects
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Treatment of facial pain
Facial Pain
Facial pain is a debilitating condition that is often chronic and patients have commonly spent a large amount of time and money attempting to find the answers to its cause and often to no avail.
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Symptoms and tips for neck pain
Neck
Neck pain is a common complaint. Rarely, neck pain can be a symptom of a more serious problem and can respond well to Physiotherapy. If your neck pain is accompanied by numbness or loss of strength in your arms or hands or if you have shooting pain into your shoulder or down your arm book to see us.
Whiplash occurs when the neck is accelerated or decelerated rapidly causing micro trauma in the neck.
Whiplash associated disorder (WAD) has guidelines for X-ray See the list below from the Quebec Task Force for Whiplash. Guidelines are that X-rays are rarely required for Grades 0-2, and are routine for 3-4
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Frozen shoulder, AC joint, Labral tear
Shoulder
Frozen shoulder, AC joint, Labral tear, Rotator cuff tear, Instability, Impingement
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Symptoms and tips for upper back pain
Upper Back
Upper back pain can be very easy to treat and is usually quicker to respond to treatment than the neck or the lower back.
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Symptoms & tips for lower back pain
Lower Back
80% of the population will experience low back pain in their lifetime. There are a number of structures that can give pain such as the Disc, Facet, Musculature or nerves in the low back. One of the most common pain generators is the disc.
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Symptoms and tips for hip/ groin/ buttock pain
Hips / Groin / Buttock
Can be complex to diagnose your pain generator, it could be back pain so an assessment is important for effective rehabilitation.
These can occur in a number of places around the hip. Most commonly affected muscles are:
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Symptoms and tips for the knee
Knee Pain
Apart from the low back, the knee remains the biggest cause of musculo-skeletal pain and disability.
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Symptoms and tips for Calf Injuries
Calf and Achilles
Most leg pain results from poor strength and overuse, or injuries in joints or bones or in muscles, ligaments, tendons or other soft tissues. Some types of leg pain can be traced to problems in your lower spine.
Ankle pain Your ankle is an intricate network of bones, ligaments, tendons and muscles. Strong enough to bear your body weight and enable you to move, your ankle can be prone to injury and pain. Ankle pain often responds well to physiotherapy.
Foot pain. Injury, overuse or conditions causing inflammation involving any of the bones, ligaments or tendons in the foot can cause foot pain. Injury to the nerves of the feet may result in intense burning pain, numbness or tingling
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Symptoms & tips for ankle pain
Ankle
Sprain - Symptoms
- Swollen ankle
- Unable to weight bear
- Pain in the outside of the ankle
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Symptoms and Tips For the Foot
Foot Pain
This is a swelling of the nerve and scar tissue arising from the interdigital nerve usually between the 3rd and 4th metatarsals. It commonly presents as: