Expert Physiotherapy in Edinburgh
Physiotherapy Treatment in Edinburgh
We are delighted to announce we have joined forces with Edinburgh’s most experienced and advanced physiotherapy team – The Physiotherapy Clinics. They will be working from our Atholl Place clinic located between the West End of Edinburgh and Haymarket.
The Physiotherapy Clinics are a team of highly dedicated and experienced team of musculoskeletal physiotherapists who have a holistic approach towards their assessment, treatment and advice. This is achieved by addressing both the injury (or condition), as well as the patient themselves. They also empower their patients to help with their recovery and return to normal everyday pain free function and activities.
We currently have Nic Brown and Siubhan Slater working from the clinic, two excellent Australian Physiotherapists.
Siubhan Slater
Specialist MSK & Sports Physiotherapist
What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapists help patients to recover from often painful acute or chronic injury and conditions, especially to joints, like muscle and ligament injury or arthritis. They help patients of all ages from young children to the elderly, and all walks of life from work or home related conditions to professional athletes.
The main goal of physiotherapy is to reduce pain, restore normal function and movement and prevent further injury.
After a detailed assessment and diagnosis, your Physiotherapist will use a combination of hands-on treatment, exercise and other modalities like shockwave, dry needling and laser therapy to help the recovery and repair process.
What Can Physiotherapy Help With?
Physiotherapists are probably best known for helping people with joint and soft tissue injuries. But in practice, physios help people with all sorts of challenges, including balance problems, rehabilitating from injury or from surgery, avoiding injuries as they improve their capacity in life or sport.
Some physiotherapists also specialise in sports injuries and highly complex conditions, and others specialise in neurological and vestibular conditions.
Here are a few examples of what our fantastic team can help you with:
- Back and neck pain
- Sports Injuries
- Joint pain or injury
- Poor balance and fall prevention
- Post-surgery rehabilitation
- Headaches, migraine and BPPV
- Paediatric conditions
- Arthritis
Nic Brown
Specialist MSK & Sports Physiotherapist
What Does A Physiotherapist Do?
Physios use manual therapy, electrotherapy, exercise prescription, lifestyle advice and more to help you to recover from and to avoid injury..
Diagnose
A physiotherapist is highly skilled in carrying out a thorough and detailed assessment to help establish the cause of your symptoms. Once this is complete your physiotherapist will explain the findings and probable diagnosis. In some cases they may recommend further investigation like X-ray or MRI and are able to refer you for this.
Assess Posture & Function
Occasionally, pain can lead to poor posture and function. However, far more common, poor posture or function can lead to pain. Physiotherapists are experts in assessing both your posture and the way you move and how to fix it.
Treatment
Once a diagnosis has been established, your physiotherapist will discuss the recommended treatment in detail. Treatment generally consists of a combination of hands-on treatment (Manual Therapy), exercise prescription and sometimes electrotherapy. Loads of great advice will be provided so that you leave your appointment understanding your condition and wat needs to be done to fix it.
Manual Therapy
Hands-on techniques are at the focal point of most treatment sessions. For example, joint mobilisation or manipulation, traction. Movement patterns, myofascial release, massage techniques, dry needling and other manual techniques.
Shockwave Therapy
We are one of only a few clinics in Edinburgh to use Shockwave Therapy. Our shockwave equipment is made by Storz Medical in Switzerland, the world leaders in shockwave Therapy. Shockwaves, despite the name, are pain free and help the body to regenerate new tissue to replace damaged tissue that is not healing or responding to conventional treatment. Shockwave treatment is a highly successful treatment for chronic injuries.
Should You Try Physiotherapy?
If you have any of the below, you could book to see a Physio.
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