Pain it’s all in your head, part 1

What is chronic pain? It was Rene Descarte who proposed the theory of pain that has persisted for nearly 400 years. Descarte thought that there were specific pain receptors and nerve fibres that projected pain impulses to the spinal cord and on to a specific pain centre in the brain. This implicated that the experience […]

Physiotherapy in Wandsworth

Physiotherapy in Wandsworth If you’re a keen gym goer, Boot Camp goer, or recreational athlete it’s more than likely that you will pick up an injury from time to time. It could be quite a simple injury such as a muscle strain or minor ligament sprain, or you could have a more debilitating and painful […]

Update to arthritis guidelines

What is arthritis? The National Institute for Clinic Excellence (NICE) has recently updated its advice and clinical guidelines for the management of Osteoarthritis (OA). NICE provides evidence-based recommendations on the most effective ways of diagnosing and managing osteoarthritis in England and Wales and clinicians use these guidelines when deciding what treatment to give patients presenting […]