Conditions

• Muscle Strain: Overuse or sudden movements can strain the muscles surrounding the hip joint, leading to pain and discomfort.
• Bursitis: Inflammation of the bursae, small fluid-filled sacs that cushion the hip joint, can cause pain, especially with movement.
• Arthritis: Conditions like osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or other inflammatory forms of arthritis can lead to gradual deterioration of the hip joint, resulting in pain and stiffness.

Do you have pain on the side of your hip? This could be greater trochanteric pain syndrome. Shirley Physiotherapy can help resolve this painful condition by giving effective treatment and advice.

What is greater trochanteric pain syndrome? This is either a tendon or bursa related condition on the outside aspect of your hip.

How do I treat greater trochanteric pain syndrome? Activity modification, ice, exercises and steroid injections are all helpful in treating this condition.

Do you have a pain in a tendon? Tendon condition such as Achilles Tendonopathy, Tennis Elbow, Golfers Elbow, shoulder tendon problems are all common conditions that Shirley Physiotherapy can help give you the effective treatment to help resolve your tendon condition.

What causes tendon conditions? This can be caused by degeneration or a tear of the tendon that can cause pain and inflammation.

How do I treat tendon problems? Rest from the activities that aggravate the tendon, ice, exercises, splint or brace, steroid injection and in severe cases surgery may be needed.

Do you have knee pain? Knee conditions are very common problems. Shirley Physiotherapy can help by giving you effective advice and treatment for your knee pain.

What causes knee pain? Knee pain can be caused by a specific sport or work-based injury, arthritis, bursitis, fat pad impingement, cartilage tears, ligament sprains or tendinopathies can all be the cause of knee pain.

How do I treat knee pain? A wide variety of treatments for knee pain can be given depending on what the problem is, some of the treatments are, exercise, rest, activity modification, ice, elevation, compression, steroid injection or hyaluronic acid injection, knee brace or surgery in severe cases.

Have you got pain in your shoulder? Shirley Physiotherapy can help you resolve your shoulder pain by giving effective advice and treatment.

What causes shoulder pain? Shoulder pain can be caused by arthritis, sporting, or work-related injuries.

How do I treat shoulder pain? Finding what the shoulder problem is, then giving a specific regime of exercises along with mobilisations and acupuncture can all be helpful in the recovery of shoulder conditions.

Have you had an injury to your ligaments? Shirley Physiotherapy can help resolve your ligament injury by giving effective advice and treatment.

What causes a ligament sprain? A sprain is a tearing of the ligament through a sudden force.

How do I treat a ligament sprain? Ice, rest, compression, and elevation initially, then a specific rehab regime to facilitate the recovery back to your activities will be needed. Surgery is needed in some severe cases.

Do you have a pulled muscle? Shirley Physiotherapy can help by giving effective advice and treatments to resolve your injury.

What causes a muscle strain? This is usually caused by a sudden force that over stretches and causes the muscle to tear.

How do I treat muscle strains? Protection, rest, ice and a specific regime of exercises to rehab the muscle, with strength, range of movement and balance.

Are you suffering with pins, needles, and numbness in your hands? Shirley Physiotherapy can help manage your carpal Tunnel symptoms.

What causes carpal tunnel syndrome? This is caused by pressure on the nerve in your wrist.

How do I treat carpal tunnel syndrome? Wearing a wrist splint, stop or cut down on things that may be causing it, hand exercises, steroid injection or if none of these measures help then surgery may be required.

Do you have stiff and painful joints? Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of joint pain and stiffness. Shirley Physiotherapy can help you by giving effective advice and treatments to help manage this painful condition.

What is osteoarthritis? This is a degenerative joint disease, that occurs slowly over time, and breaks down the tissues of the joint and affects the surrounding soft tissues.

How can I manage Osteoarthritis? The main treatment for the symptoms of osteoarthritis is maintaining and health weight, strengthening the muscles. Acupuncture and manual therapy can help relieve the symptoms of Osteoarthritis. Joint injections such as Hyaluronic Acid can help to relieve joint pain caused by Osteoarthritis.

Are you suffering with over mobile joints? Shirley Physiotherapy can help you manage your hypermobility by strengthening around the joints to help prevent hypermobility issues.

What is hypermobility syndrome? This is when you have very flexible joints, and it causes pain.

How can you treat hypermobility syndrome? The main treatment is improving muscle strength, fitness, balance, and posture so your joints are better protected.

Are you suffering with a painful shoulder? The most common cause of shoulder pain is rotator cuff problems. Shirley Physiotherapy can help manage your shoulder pain through effective treatment and exercises.

What causes rotator cuff syndrome? This may arise from an acute injury or be caused by normal age-related degeneration of the tendon?

How can I treat rotator cuff syndrome? The goals of treatment are to regain strength, function, and improve the pain in the shoulder by a specific regime of exercises along with mobilisations and acupuncture can help relieve the pain.

Do you have a stiff and painful shoulder? This could be what we call frozen shoulder.

What is frozen shoulder? Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) is a thickening and tightening of the soft tissue that surrounds the shoulder joint.

How do I treat a Frozen shoulder? A Frozen shoulder requires rehabilitation and special exercises to help the range and movement and strength of the shoulder, massage and acupuncture helps relieve the pain, anti-inflammatory medications and steroid injection can also be effective. If this fails then surgical opinion may be required.

Have you got pain under your heel? Then this could be plantar fasciitis.

Shirley physiotherapy can give you an effective treatment plan to help manage this condition.

What causes plantar fasciitis? Plantar fasciitis is caused by excessive load on the plantar fascia that causes it to become inflamed and painful.

How do I treat plantar Fasciitis? Plantar fasciitis is managed by using massage or acupuncture, good, cushioned shoes, stretches, insoles, rest from overloading the plantar fascia, special socks, and steroid injection.

Have you got pain in your Achilles tendon? Shirley Physiotherapy can give you the treatments and advice to help resolve this issue

What causes Achill Tendonitis? Achilles Tendonitis occurs due to repetitive or intense strain on the Achilles Tendon.

How to do you treat Achilles Tendonitis? Rest, Ice, a specific rehabilitation regime that involves strengthening, stretches, balance exercises and a graded return to activity, also heel wedges and insoles can be helpful.

Do you have pain on the outside of your elbow? Then this most likely is Tennis Elbow. Shirley Physiotherapy can help give your fast and effective treatment to help resolve Tennis Elbow.

What causes Tennis Elbow? The pain often comes from overused, strained and inflamed soft tissues of the tendons.

What treatments are there for Tennis Elbow? Ice, rest, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs will help. Also, specific strengthening exercises and stretches can work very well to resolve Tennis Elbow.

Do you have pain on the inside of your elbow? Then this is most likely Golfer’s Elbow. Shirley Physiotherapy can give you and effective treatment plan to help resolve Golfer’s Elbow.

What symptoms can Golfers Elbow cause? You usually have a pain that is on the inside of your elbow and hurts when you lift an object or twist your arm. This can cause pain to travel down the forearm.

How do you treat Golfers Elbow? Ice, rest, non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs will help. Also, specific strengthening exercises and stretches can work very well to resolve Golfers Elbow.

Do you have neck pain that will not go away? Then Shirley Physiotherapy can give you fast and effective treatments to help relieve your symptoms.

What has caused my neck pain? Common causes for neck pain can be neck strain, sport or work-related activities, anxiety, and poor posture.

How can physiotherapy help? Treatments such as mobilisations, manipulations, or acupuncture along with stretches and exercises can be effective for neck pain.

Have you twisted your ankle? If so then Shirley physiotherapy can help give you a treatment plan to help get your ankle back to full strength.

How common are ankle sprains? Ankle sprains are very common and will not normally need any intervention.

My ankle has become swollen after twisting it, is that normal? Yes, ankle sprains frequently swell up due to the damage of the soft tissue ligaments.

How long is the recovery time? This depends on the severity of the ankle sprain, a low-grade sprain may take a few days or a week to resolve, whereas a high-grade ankle sprain could take a number months to fully resolve.

Do you have shooting pain or pins/needles or numbness in your leg? This is called sciatica. Shirley physiotherapy can provide fast and effective treatments to help reduce your symptoms.

What causes sciatica? The most common cause is a herniated disc in the lower spine that causes irritation to the spinal nerves.

How common is sciatica? Between 15% and 40% of people will have sciatica at some point in their lifetime.

Do you suffer with acute or chronic back pain? If so then Shirley Physiotherapy can help you reduce your pain and get you living your life again.

Is my posture causing me back pain? This is unlikely as there is no right or wrong posture, it is important to change posture regular to avoid getting stiff or tight in one position to long.

Do I need rest to help my back pain? Avoid resting long periods with back pain, it is important to stay as mobile and active as possible.

I have had back pain for a while now, do I need a scan? Most people with back pain do not require a scan, with the correct advice and treatment back pain normally resolves within a month or two.