Physiotherapy
What is Physiotherapy?
In simple terms:
- Physiotherapy is a profession and specialises in relieving pain and enhancing movement
- Improving joint and muscle function
- Restoring function and fitness
- Making improvements in flexibility, strength, and coordination
- Education
Having said all this, it takes many years of studying and training to become a Chartered Physiotherapist. This includes a university degree program and following this you must register with the HCPC (Health Care Professionals Council http://www.hcpc-uk.org.uk). You can check the live register to see if your healthcare professional is registered. A chartered physiotherapist is also required to be registered the CSP (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy).
What is a Physiotherapist?
A physiotherapist is a registered health care professional who specialise in maintaining and improving movement and mobility. We use specific highly specialist techniques to relieve your symptoms. This can include:
- Joint mobilisations
- Soft tissue massage
- Acupuncture
- Dry needling
We also give advice and prescribe exercise to support and sustain your recovery.
How will Physiotherapy help me?
Physiotherapy aims to help patients maintain, recover or improve physical ability that may be impaired due to a condition or injury.
At the Performance Physio Clinic, we aim to keep the treatments to a minimum whilst assisting in the rehabilitation and self-help advice.
Physiotherapy aims to:
- Encourage healing by controlling and reducing pain and inflammation
- Restore the patient’s normal range of motion by integrating their muscular, joint and nervous systems
- Identify and treat problems and reduce the risk of re-occurrence
- Expedite your injury so you can make a prompt return to action
- Enable you to take control of your injury to maximise your potential
The Performance Pathway
This is a bespoke pathway we use to guide you through your rehabilitation at the Performance Physio Clinic. At the Performance Physio Clinic, we are trained to Masters level which gives us the skills to assess and diagnose a great variety of injury’s and physical conditions. When booking your appointment with the Performance Physio Clinic you will be automatically placed on the Performance Pathway.
The includes your initial assessment where a detailed history will be taken where we won’t only focus on your specific injury at the moment but the body as whole we also take into account other factors to give us the complete picture and the best opportunity of getting your rehabilitation off to a good start. Following this we will carry out a physical examination where we look at specific movements and structures to assess their quality and integrity.
After the initial assessment you will provided with your Performance Pathway Report.
This will include:
- Diagnosis and Education to aid understanding
- Estimated healing time
- Estimated number of Physiotherapy sessions required
- Advice to what to do and what to avoid.
At the Performance Physio Clinic, we want you to have the complete and best patient journey from start to finish.
