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| MANUAL THERAPY |
PILATES | ORTHOTICS |
| MASSAGE | PROGRAMS | SPECIALIST AREAS |
| REHAB | HEADACHES | BACK PAIN |
| SURGERY | PHYSIO | EQUIPMENT |
Manual Therapy
Manual Therapy is a manual technique where the joint and soft tissues are gently moved by the physiotherapist to restore normal range, lubricate joint surfaces, and relieve pain. Mobilisation is a high speed, short movement thrust given at the end of available range. It is used to break down adhesions, remove a blockage within a joint and restore full painless movement.
Pilates
Pilates is an exercise regimen that elongates and strengthens the muscles. By correcting posture, Pilates can strengthen your body against future injuries.It system of exercises, designed to improve physical strength, flexibility, and posture, and enhance mental awareness. Pilates is best used when modified to your specific weakness or sport, which can be achieved during 1:1 treatments.
Orthotics
Orthotics is an analysis of the foot positioning during walking or running with provision of insoles if required.
Headaches
Headaches where the pain originates in the cervical spine, neck and upper shoulders are often referred to as a cervicogenic headache. Many times, these headaches can be a byproduct of whiplash, neck injury or muscle trauma due to poor prolonged posture or severe stress.
See http://www.migraine.ie for more details.
Sports Massage
Sports Massage encompasses a variety of techniques and is given with sufficient pressure through the superficial tissue to reach the deep lying structures. It is used to increase blood flow, decrease swelling, reduce muscle spasm and promote normal tissue repair. Specific sport related techniques will be used depending on the demands on the muscles for your given hobby. This can be at different pressures depending on where in the training cycle you are and for what reasion you are having the massage ie pre or post event massage, maintenance or flexibility massage.
Exercise Programmes
Exercise Programmes encompassing a wide range of techniques to strengthen muscles, lengthen tissues or improve postural alignment.
Vestibular Rehab
Vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT) is an exercise-based program designed to promote central nervous system compensation for inner ear deficits. VRT can help with a variety of vestibular problems, including benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and the unilateral or bilateral vestibular hypofunction (reduced inner ear function on one or both sides) associated with Ménière’s disease, labyrinthitis, and vestibular neuritis. Even individuals with long-term unresolved inner ear disorders who have undergone a period of medical management with little or no success may benefit. VRT can also help people with an acute or abrupt loss of vestibular function following surgery for vestibular problems.
Low back pain
Low back pain is a common musculoskeletal disorder affecting 80% of people at some point in their lives. It is the most common cause of job-related disability, a leading contributor to missed work, and the second most common neurological ailment — only headache is more common.[1] It can be either acute, subacute or chronic in duration. With conservative measures, the symptoms of low back pain typically show significant improvement within a few weeks from onset.
Post Surgery
Whilst surgery can correct certain medical problems, you can often only recover your true physical capabilities and return to full mobility and enjoy as normal a lifestyle as possible if you follow a defined physiotherapy programme after your operation. Although mostly connected to orthopaedics, physiotherapy can help people who have suffered from a variety of other conditions.
By following a recommended physiotherapy program both as an outpatient and through exercises you can do at home, it helps to speed up the recovery and healing process and to reduce stiffness, pain and increase your mobility.Generally speaking, the role of a physiotherapist is to incorporate a variety of techniques in order to help your bones, muscles and joints, which may have previously been damaged or broken to work again to their full potential.Not only is it just about exercising, a physio’s role is also about educating people and offering them advice about how a particular condition they have been suffering from may have arisen, how it might have been prevented in the first place and how to prevent it from reoccurring in the future.
Sports Physio
There are loads of sports therapists out there but key to getting better quickly is to have treatment from someone with the correct training and skills to get to the root cause we have the experience and commitment to get you back to where you want to be, and analysis our problem in a sports specific way.
Rehab Equipment
The clinics are fully equipped with all the necessary Physiotherapy supplies and equipment and meet all Health & Safety Regulations. Equipment includes both electronic and hydraulic plinths, various electrotherapy machines including ultrasound, interferential, electro-acupuncture, TENS, muscle stimulators, cervical traction and Pressure Biofeedback Units. Full Rehabilitation facilities are also on site with wobble boards, trampets, exercise bikes, treadmills, Cross-trainers and free weight systems. A portable slow motion digital analysis device allows for gait assessment and biomechanical analysis. Any strapping or bracing requirements are also catered for.