What you eat can promote inflammation and have other negative effects on our health.

Manual therapy is any ‘hands on’ treatment performed by a physiotherapist, such as joint mobilisations, manipulations and specific soft tissue techniques.

What is Osteoarthritis?

According to Brock Bastian, psychologist and author of the other side of happiness, endless happiness is actually quite a banal and horrible idea. He argues we need painful, negative experiences to be able to fully understand and appreciate what happiness really is. We need to accept these negatives rather than try to medicate or eradicate them all.

Since completing my Stott Pilates training back in May, I have been comparing notes with other instructors, reading journal articles & blogs and listening to podcasts by expert instructors to help me develop and refine my teaching skills.

As a Chartered Physiotherapist I have been very lucky in that I’ve had the opportunity to teach here at MMCP since completing my training, which allowed me to really get stuck in straight away. Here at the clinic we teach a slightly modified form of Pilates which is more tailored to specific needs of our clients, many of whom are using our PhysioPilates method to help them manage and prevent aches and pains.

You were up to feed the baby and then could not get back to sleep as a troubling thought came to mind which you could not shake. One thought lead to another and before long your mind is racing, an hour later and you are still wide awake! The alarm goes off, you’re not sure if it’s waking you up of if you were ever really asleep.

Fast approaching is The British Medical Acupuncture Society foundation course that I will be attending in London next week. In preparation, I decided I wanted to do a bit of an investigation to see what the general consensus was of acupuncture.

From speaking to the clients here in Mount Merrion Chartered Physiotherapy, I got the impression they really found acupuncture a great addition to treatment, and when used alongside manual therapy and exercise and they leave the clinic feeling more relieved from their pain compared to when acupuncture is not used.

Last week we welcomed Hannah Moran MISCP to our team of Chartered Physiotherapists.

Here is some news from Hannah....

“My first week has been full of learning, meeting new people and finding my feet. I began by diving into further inductions given by Practice Principal, Simon, which ranged from clinical aspects such as manual therapy and soft tissue techniques to business orientation, client management and payment systems. These inductions were invaluable to my settling into the clinic as I really got an idea of what the clinic is all about. It is a family run physiotherapy clinic which aims to provide a premium quality service to all clients and it is obvious that Lorraine and Simon really care about client satisfaction. Clients treatment plans have the unique feature of being personal and tailored to individual needs which many other services lack. I’m looking forward to getting stuck in and contributing to this unique environment.

 Yes I know, you’ve heard it before...but vegetables really are the business. As renowned food writer Michael Pollan¹ advised ‘eat food, mostly plants, not too much’. By food he means real, whole, unprocessed foods. Eating plants such as vegetables and fruit should form the bulk of the diet. All in moderation, not too much, eat until you are full, no more.

Hip and groin complaints make up a large percentage of clients I treat here in the clinic. Due to the vast number of anatomical structures at the hip and groin, there are a wide range of possible diagnoses.

To help guide my clinical reasoning when coming to make a diagnosis and finding the source of pain or dysfunction, I try to break hip diagnoses down into 3 different, but sometimes overlapping categories:

Articular (happening within the joint): This includes conditions such as osteoarthritis, hip impingement (femoroacetabular impingement, or FAI for short) and labral issues.