Physiotherapy is a treatment approach that helps you to overcome or prevent injury and alleviate pain. It is provided by Physiotherapists, healthcare professionals with specialist skills in supporting your recovery and ensuring your safety.
What Exactly Is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy at its core is a therapy that helps people (sometimes animals) improve their physical health.
Musculoskeletal physiotherapy is a specific branch of physiotherapy that specialises in supporting your recovery from musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction, often defined as an injury but can also occur without a specific injury event or as part of a chronic condition.
A broad variety of treatment approaches could be utilised, including manual therapy, movement coaching, exercise-based rehabilitation, electrotherapies, lifestyle education and advice.
The most common issues that Physiotherapy can help with:
- Lower back pain
- Sciatica
- Upper back pain
- Neck pain
- Headaches
- Rotator cuff related pain
- Shoulder instability
- Shoulder dislocations
- Hip instability
- Tendinopathy / Tendinitis
- Arthritis
- Cartilage / Meniscus injuries
- Ligament sprains
- Chronic / Persistent pain
Benefits of Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy treatment at its best uses a holistic approach to facilitate pain relief and address dysfunctions related to injuries or musculoskeletal conditions.
Physiotherapy is extremely safe in comparison to other medical approaches, and in addition to pain relief, the benefits can include overall improvements in health, function, fitness and even sport and exercise performance.
What Is A Physiotherapist?
‘Physiotherapist’ and ‘Physical Therapist’ are legally protected titles. It is a profession governed by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP) and can only be granted to individuals registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
HCPC registration requires completion of a Physiotherapy degree and is an assurance to the public that an individual is safe and competent to provide physiotherapy services. You can search the HCPC register to check that your physiotherapist is in fact a registered physiotherapist: Check the HCPC Register
What Happens In A Physiotherapy Session
A typical Physiotherapy session begins with an encouragement for you to tell your story, to explain in detail why you need help. This gives the Physiotherapist an opportunity to fully understand your situation and is an essential component to the clinical reasoning process by which a provisional diagnosis or diagnoses can be formulated.
Understanding your goals and expectations will also help to ensure the treatment plan is bespoke to your needs.
A physical examination will usually follow, where various assessment techniques will be utilised to test the diagnostic hypotheses. This can involve a movement analysis, palpation, observation of the body’s appearance and postures, strength and ROM assessments and other special diagnostic tests.
An ongoing discussion regarding the findings will further help to formulate a treatment plan, with a backup plan also helpful in some situations.
Previously mentioned treatment techniques can them commence, and treatment often involves a commitment from you to complete an exercise plan and/or make lifestyle changes designed to facilitate positive change to your physical health, and manual therapy can also prove helpful in addressing symptoms of pain and tightness.
Should You Get A Second Opinion?
Pain and injury can be complex. Things don’t always go to plan. If your issue proceeds for longer than expected and is resistant to treatment efforts, then you should consider a second opinion.
A doctor can sometimes provide this, but often the best option is to try a different physiotherapist. Finding a clinician with specialist skills and experience that can offer an alternative treatment plan can be the best way to get the relief from symptoms that you need.
At Better, we only hire the best physiotherapists. We are renowned for helping people where previous physiotherapists could not help. We love to see complex injuries and chronic pain cases.
If you have suffered for a long time, then don’t give up on Physiotherapy yet, you have not “failed physio”, perhaps you are yet to find the right physio!
How To Get Physiotherapy
We have a state-of-the-art facility in Soho, Central London, the only hybrid gym and clinic in London, perfectly suited for helping people not just ‘feel better’ but also ‘live better’.
Book online for a session: Online Booking
Call us on: 020 8064 2180
Email on: hello@betterneverends.com
How To Find The Best Physiotherapists
Central London is the medical hub of the UK. Patients travel nationally and internationally to visit the best healthcare providers working from the best facilities using specialised skills and equipment to achieve the best results.
Reading patient reviews is another way of ensuring that providers have helped other people with similar issues to you. Some review sites, such as Doctify, will also show endorsements received from other healthcare providers, further proof of a Physiotherapists credibility.
At Better we use Google Reviews and Doctify
Summary
Better is a specialist physiotherapy company based in Soho, Central London, with a mission to help you overcome injury and improve your health. We do things a little differently, we only hire the best physios in London to provide 60-minute sessions as standard to ensure that we do things BETTER!
Start your journey to better health by booking in to see an expert Physiotherapist:
Call: 020 8064 2180
Email: hello@betterneverends.com