Feet are often overlooked and somewhat taken for granted in our daily lives until they start causing pain. One cause of pain may be so called ‘flat feet’ or fallen arches which sometimes can be painful, though sometimes not! John Balshaw offers some advice if you think you have flat…
Tag Archives: Physiotherapy
When Bigger Is Not Better – The Health Issues Associated With Big Breasts
We all, whether we like it or not, live in an age where the image of the human form, both male and female, is greatly distorted and there is great pressure to have a ‘perfect’ body, whatever that means or is. Is it fair to say that this pressure has…
Groin strain – the causes and the treatment
The groin is the area of your hip between your stomach and thigh, located where your abdomen ends and your legs begin. The groin region consist of a range of ligaments, tendons, muscles and fascia (a sheet or band of fibrous tissue that covers or binds body structures together) all…
Simple Tips to Relieve Back Pain When Running
Back pain while running, particularly for long distance runners, is quite common. Unfortunately, most of these runners who experience back pain are unaware of some simple skills that they can introduce into their exercise routine to take control. In this short article, I am going to highlight some key postural change…
Heel Pain – Causes and Treatment
If you’re experiencing pain in the heel of your foot, it may well be plantar fasciitis, the medical term for the thickening of the plantar fascia. The plantar fascia is a broad, tough and flexible band of tissue, which runs under the sole of the foot. It connects the heel…
Chronic pain – treatment and management
Chronic pain is an unpleasant sense of discomfort or pain associated with actual or potential tissue damage where the pain has been present for more than three months. Chronic pain can be described by sufferers as continuous or intermittent and it may vary from mild to very severe. Chronic pain…
Marathon preparation – four months to go
It’s just four months until the London marathon and we know that a number of Elite clients are in training for the big day. Four months is the time where runners should start their preparation for the big event as your body needs time to adapt to the particular strain…
Stand straight, breathe better
We all breathe. It’s a necessity of life and something we generally do without thinking about it. Most of us also don’t tend to think about our posture and how we sit or stand. However, if we do think about them it becomes clear how interlinked they are. Don’t believe…
Standing workstations are a waste of money… or are they?
Recent press coverage is suggesting that people who use standing workstations are continuing to experience aches and pains at work. Ummmmm…. well yeah! I don’t think it takes a genius to figure out that standing at a work station for long periods of time is no better (well maybe marginally)…
Hamstring pain when running?
Runners will often complain of hamstring pain when putting in the miles. Unfortunately, hamstring pain isn’t a particularly straightforward problem. Pain in this area during loading, like in a sport such as running, can be down to a whole host of reasons. In more occasions than not the pain can be…
