First, Do No Harm
First, do no harm! Listen first, speak later. The first Golden Rule of a Professional Physiotherapist is “First, do no harm.” This relates to physical harm. The first aim of the Physiotherapist when in clinical contact with a patient is to never do anything to exacerbate the symptoms they are presented with. This is an […]
Festive Mobility
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you have had a fabulous festive season full of everything you wanted it to be full of. If you are anything like me, I am sure your body has also been (over)filled with festive excess, too. If, again, you are like me I am fairly confident that […]
Enablement and Resilience as a Treatment
Do you need enabling? Enablement & resilience are enormously important to maintaining your mobility. What are they and how do we use them? Depending upon your starting point enablement can imply many things. From a textbook perspective enablement helps to describe the methods used by physiotherapists at The Moballise Physiotherapy Clinic to support the patients […]
A Little Friction Can be a Good Thing
Your ligaments and tendons may thank you for creating a little bit of friction. The human body responds really very efficiently to inflammation. I saw a patient in clinic today whom I have known for many years. Happily we had never met in The Moballise Physiotherapy Clinic until today. He had experienced an unfortunate turn […]
Put Your Hands On
When was the last time your physiotherapist laid their hands on you? There is a growing trend amongst physiotherapists to avoid manual treatment. Why is that and what are the implications for the patient? Over the last twenty or so years there has been a growing drive to ensure that physiotherapists are delivering only evidence-based […]
HOT, HOT, HOT…Or Cold?
What beautiful weather we are currently enjoying! Isn’t it funny how the Sun seems to make everything seem better? All that Vitamin D must surely be having an amazing effect on the constitution of the general public. Normally at this time of year, especially in such wonderful warm weather, we see a slight dip in […]
