Physiotherapy helps restore, maintain, maximise movement and physical function affected by injury, illness, or disability. Using evidence-based techniques like exercise, manual therapy, and education, physiotherapists treat pain, improve mobility, and prevent future injury, enabling patients to regain independence. 

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Physiotherapy often uses massage as a hands-on therapy to address a wide range of physical issues. It aims to improve how your body moves and functions by working on your muscles, tendons, ligaments, and the connective tissue (fascia) that holds them together.

Here’s a closer look at the benefits:

Pain Relief
Massage can help reduce pain by easing muscle tension, reducing inflammation, and increasing blood flow to the affected area. This can be particularly helpful for chronic pain, muscle soreness, and injuries.

Improved Flexibility
By loosening tight muscles and increasing range of motion in joints, massage can improve your overall flexibility and make movement easier.

Enhanced Circulation
Massage stimulates blood flow, bringing fresh oxygen and nutrients to the tissues while removing waste products. This helps with healing and reduces swelling.

Relaxation and Stress Reduction
Massage promotes relaxation by calming the nervous system and releasing endorphins, which are natural mood boosters. This can help reduce stress and improve your overall sense of well-being.

Types of massage commonly used in physiotherapy:

Sports Massage
Often used for athletes to prepare for events, aid in recovery, and prevent injuries. It focuses on specific muscle groups and can involve techniques like stretching and deep tissue work.

Deep Tissue Massage
Uses slow, firm pressure to reach deeper layers of muscle tissue. It’s helpful for chronic muscle tension, pain, and postural problems.

Myofascial Release
Applies gentle, sustained pressure to release tension in the fascia, a web-like tissue that surrounds and supports muscles. This can improve mobility and reduce pain.

Active Release Technique (ART)
A more specialised technique that involves applying pressure to specific points while you actively move the affected area. This helps break up scar tissue and adhesions, restoring normal tissue function.

Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilisation (ISTM)

Our Physiotherapists use ISTM instruments to palpate (feel) skin and underlying tissues, identifying areas of tightness, adhesions, or restrictions. These tools are then used to apply controlled pressure and scraping motions over the affected areas. This stimulates the tissue, promotes blood flow and can mobilise adhesions and trigger points. This application can trigger a localised inflammatory response, which helps initiate the healing process by encouraging the body to repair damaged tissue. This is a treatment that is rapidly growing in popularity due to its effectiveness and allows the identification of specific restrictions.

The therapist uses the instruments to palpate (feel) the skin and underlying tissues, identifying areas of tightness, adhesions, or restrictions. The tools are then used to apply controlled pressure and scraping motions over the affected areas. This stimulates the tissue and promotes blood flow. The application of the instruments can trigger a localised inflammatory response, which helps initiate the healing process by encouraging the body to repair damaged tissue.

If you’re experiencing pain, stiffness, or limited movement, talk to a physiotherapist about whether massage therapy might be a suitable option for you. They can assess your needs and recommend the most appropriate type of massage and treatment plan.

Are you experiencing discomfort or fatigue while cycling? A professional bike fit from a physiotherapist can transform your riding experience!

Why Choose a Physiotherapist for Your Bike Fit?

Expert Knowledge of Body Mechanics
We understand how your body moves and can analyse your posture to ensure optimal positioning on your bike.

Injury Prevention
A tailored bike fit helps reduce the risk of common cycling injuries, allowing you to ride longer and stronger without pain.

Enhanced Performance
By optimising your bike setup, you’ll improve your efficiency, speed, and overall performance on the road or trail.

Personalised Approach
Every cyclist is unique! We will create a customized fit plan that considers your specific needs, goals, and riding style.

Holistic Care
With a focus on both bike fitting and your physical well-being, we can address any muscle imbalances or weaknesses that may affect your cycling.

Take Your Cycling to the Next Level!

Book your bike fit with a physiotherapist today and enjoy a more comfortable, efficient, and enjoyable ride.

A bicycle is a symmetrical apparatus but humans’ function with varying degrees of asymmetry. Asymmetry causes patterns of compensation. A bike fit identifies asymmetries that can cause issues to the rider over the long term and aims to correct or compensate for them. We aim to adapt the bike set up to produce functional symmetry. You will also be offered advice on reducing your muscular asymmetries.

COMFORT + EFFICIENCY = PERFORMANCE

We have x2 options

Standard Bike Fit.

This is simply getting you in the best position on the bike. It may be for those completely new to cycling particularly road biking or those who simply want their position looking at and reviewing with a expert pair of eyes as setting yourself up on a bike can be tricky guesswork.

Advanced Bike Fit

This is a progression from the standard bike fit and is for those who have been riding for a while who may be having issues or are training for a specific event. You may be wanting to be more aero for a Time trial or seeking the best position for comfort and performance. You may have a specific issue most commonly back pain, neck pain, saddle pain, knee alignment, foot cleat interface. This session typically involves a lot of getting on and off the bike for areas to be modified and retested. We will provide a PDF of the changes and relevant measurements.

Session overview

We start the session with an in-depth discussion with you about your riding: your goals, how many hours a week you ride and any problems you are having.

We follow this with taking a look at you on bike your using a turbo trainer

Next we work with you on your bike in a stationary trainer to get the following correct:

saddle height
cleat position
knee alignement
saddle tilt
saddle fore/aft
reach (stem length)
saddle to handlebar drop
handlebar tilt
lever positioning (and positioning of any aerobars)
If your bike is unfortunately the wrong size, which does happen we will inform you and we will not charge you. However that is an extreme circumstance and most bikes can be altered to the rider to compensate even if one size too large or small.Fitting a human to a bike is a continual process rather than a single intervention. Postures change over time, people get injured which can affect alignment and people get fitter/un-fitter which effects positions that be tolerated. Therefore we do recommend a review at around 8-12 weeks post fitting..

General information

Please bring your bike, bike shoes (should be nice & stiff & well fitting), a drink and cycling kit (tight fitting and in shorts please as we need to see your knees). Ideally, remove any non essentials form the bike.

Gait is the term used to explain the way we walk and run.

In order to understand movement and prevent or manage injury, it is important to evaluate an individual’s gait accurately.

Physiotherapists specialise in this. Some of us have taken on extra training to further analyse running techniques and analysis.

Various issues can be caused by inefficient gait or muscle imbalances, stiff joints, previous injuries or technique deficiencies.

You may have an underlying muscular imbalance that is contributing to your foot, ankle, leg, knee, hip or back pain.

Running style is very individual there is no one correct way to run despite what you may hear. Every runner develops a gait that feels comfortable and efficient to them. Changing gait is not an easy process and can be gamble if done without supervision as other injuries may result from attempts to change running gait, especially switching to a forefoot strike.

Reducing load in one area will always result in increased load somewhere else.

Physiotherapists use Gait analysis to try to redistribute load away from an injured tissue towards healthier structures thus allowing the injured area to heal. The relationship between running style and injury is not clear and is widely debated. In many cases, it is how much you run, how regularly and what your muscular system capacity for strain is rather than exactly how you run that is most relevant in developing injuries.

However, there are some areas with a strong connection between gait and injury for instance runners knee (ITB syndrome), lateral hip pain, forefoot pain and shin splints (medial tibial stress syndrome). For these injuries, evidence suggests that modifying gait improves symptoms.

Process

During our gait analysis, we will film and observe you on a treadmill.

From this, we will identify specific deficits to target depending on your problem.

Common things we see are over stride, a scissor-type gait, low cadence, high vertical oscillation various rotation deficits and postural issues during the gait cycle.

We conduct a physical assessment initially then progress to the gait analysis where we may identify further issues or be able to link issues or any symptoms you may be having.

A treatment plan will then be formulated in conjunction with yourself which, usually will involve some gait re-training drills, specific exercises for mobility or strength and any physical manipulation that may be required.

We will then typically follow this up within 4-8 weeks to reassess for changes and make our next plan.

Common complaints we see are

Runners knee is the most common injury among runners
Shin splints (Medial tibial stress syndrome)
Lateral hip pain (Trochanteric Bursitis, Gluteal tendinopathy)
Plantar fasciitis/ plantarfasciopathy

We also see Runners looking to improve efficiency, speed, endurance or even reduce the risk of injury as they train for events e.g. marathon training.

‘Golf Fitness’ is about being fit to play the game at an individual’s highest level and doing so without causing injury. It’s about understanding how a body’s limitations can influence the golf swing and how to address those limitations through the proper channels; whether it’s through swing instruction, physical rehabilitation or strength and conditioning. Here at The Physiotherapy Rooms LTD, Kristian can help you achieve this through rehabilitation, Physiotherapy treatments and corrective exercise, whether you want to return to golf from injury, or want to reduce the risk of picking up an injury in the first place.

Process

The most efficient swing is not the same for every golfer, because efficiency is unique to your body. A screening process will be used to assess elements of your swing mechanics, physical fitness, movement quality and current health. Kristian is TPI (Titleist Performance Institute) certified and will use the same process as used with the World’s leading golfers to help you stay injury-free on the golf course.

With the information gained from the screening process, an individualised plan will be developed for you, including physical training, home exercises and treatment as required, with the aim of allowing your most efficient swing possible.

Lower back pain is the number one injury in golf closely followed by medial knee pain and elbow pain. Low back pain is the most frequent pain complaint seen by Physiotherapists in general. If you’re struggling with golf-related lower back pain, or indeed any other injury or pain associated with your golf game, then get booked in to see Kristian for a TPI assessment and reduce your golf injury risk.

Kate our TMJ/TMD Clinical Specialist has 7 years experience of treating jaw problems and is a Member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Temporomandibular disorder, offering advise, exercises, mobilisation and acupuncture.

If you suffer from any or some of the following issues Kate may be able to help you;
Painful clicking jaw/Grind your teeth/Clench your jaw/avoid eating in public/headaches or facial pain/dentist thinks you have jaw problems?