Deep gluteal pain syndrome

Why do I have a pain in the buttock? Buttock pain can be such a pain, accurately diagnosing it and treating it can also be challenging as there are various things that can be causing the pain. These include:   Referred pain from the lower back   It’s quite common for joints that are aggravated […]

Snow sports injuries

What are the most common skiing and snowboarding injuries? Snow sports are great fun, but they come with a risk of injury. Injury prevention is the best approach for any sport, and this is the case for skiing as well, but it’s much less common to prepare adequately for your ski trip and injury rates […]

Shockwave Therapy in Wandsworth

The role of shockwave therapy in tendon pain What is shockwave therapy? Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT), also known as shockwave was first used in clinical settings in the 1980s for the management of various urologic conditions. Its early success led to it being used to improve fracture healing due to its ability to improve bone […]

Muscle injury classification

There are numerous systems in use to describe muscle and tendon injury. Many of these systems comment on the anatomy, structure and size of the tissue injury.

Common forefoot conditions

The forefoot is classified as the metatarsals and the toes as well as the joint, nerves and other soft tissues or that area. There are numerous conditions that can affect the forefoot, however the most common are first MTP arthritis, Morton’s neuroma and Frieberg’s disease

The most common ankle injuries

Perhaps one of the most common sports injuries, and also in the non-sporting population from a twist or fall is ankle ligament sprains…

Rotator cuff calcific tendinitis

Calcific tendonitis, as the term suggests, describes the deposition of calcium into the body of a tendon which can then cause an inflammatory reaction that causes pain and dysfunction.

Patella tendon pain

What is patella tendinopathy? The most common cause of patella tendon pain is patella tendinopathy, also known as jumper’s knee. The patella tendon is a large strong tendon that runs from the patella (kneecap) to the shin bone and helps to transmit large forces through the thigh when we run and jump. A healthy patella […]

Management of calf strains

The calf is often injured in sports and there are various pathologies that can present as a calf injury. People will typically feel a tightness in the back of the calf or even sometimes the more severe pain or sudden pop

The management of patello-femoral pain

Patello-femoral pain in an umbrella term that encompasses multiple pathology such as cartilage lesion, patella bone marrow oedema and progression of synovitis.