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Sporting Ankles

As we all know, ankle inversion injuries are common sports injuries that we typically see in our clinic.

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Ankle Sprains

Ankle sprains, particularly ligament sprains are one of the most commonly treated injuries .

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Computer Tips

How you use your computer can be a major cause of back, neck and shoulder pain.

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Corked Thigh

A corky is a bruised muscle (contusion injury) that results in bleeding into the muscle.

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Trigger Point Dry Needling - Applications for Pain Management and Sports Injurie

These courses are ideal for graduates of schools of Physiotherapy, Osteopathy and Chiropractic.

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Golf Injuries

The most common golf injuries occur in the lower back, elbows, shoulders, hands and wrists. Injuries can occur during golf as a result of overuse or trauma to a region.

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Hamstring Strains

Hamstring injuries are the most common soft-tissue injury to the thigh.

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Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy is also known as nonsurgical ligament reconstruction, and is a treatment for chronic pain

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Shoulder Injuries

The shoulder is a very important joint in many sports such as racquet sports, swimming and ball sports

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The myofascial trigger point region

This study was designed to investigate the correlation between the irritability of the myofascial trigger point (MTrP) and the prevalence of endplate noise (EPN) in the MTrP region of human skeletal muscle.

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Central representation of hyperalgesia from myofascial trigger point.

The aim of the study was to investigate if an abnormal brain response to pain exists in patients with myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) when stimulated in a hypersensitive myofascial trigger point (MTP).

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Central modulation of pain evoked from myofascial trigger point.

Low-intensity low-frequency electrostimulation delivered within a myofascial trigger point (MTP) has been used as intervention to deactivate MTPs. The therapeutic effect has been suggested to be due to peripheral mechanisms. However, nonpainful stimuli are also known to reduce simultaneous pain through central effects. The primary objective of the present study was to assess if central pain modulation occurs after intervention with low-intensity electrostimulation within an MTP. We hypothesized that intervention induces pain inhibition via the periaqueductal gray (PAG).

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Management of Myofascial Trigger Point Pain

Successful management of myofascial trigger point (MTrP) pain depends on the practitioner finding all of the MTrPs from which the pain is emanating, and then deactivating them by one of several currently used methods.

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A Proposed Clinical Reasoning Model For Western Acupuncture

The western approach to acupuncture as practised by many physiotherapists has been criticised because of the lack of clinical reasoning underpinning treatment choices.

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Does EMG (dry needling) reduce myofascial pain symptoms?

EMG examination

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Needling Therapies in the Management of Myofascial Trigger Point Pain

Cummings TM, White AR. Needling therapies in the management of myofascial trigger point pain: a systematic review. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001;82:986-92.

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Trigger Point Dry Needling

Trigger point dry needling is a treatment technique used by physical therapists around the world. In the United States, trigger point dry needling has been approved as within the scope of physical therapy practice in a growing number of states.

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Interrater reliability in myofascial trigger point examination

The myofascial trigger point (MTrP) is the hallmark physical finding of the myofascial pain syndrome (MPS). The MTrP itself is characterized by distinctive physical features that include a tender point in a taut band of muscle, a local twitch response (LTR) to mechanical stimulation, a pain referral pattern characteristic of trigger points of specific areas in each muscle, and the reproduction of the patient’s usual pain.

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