Patello-femoral syndrome – this gives you pain at the front of your knee during or after exercise involving your knee (especially running) and is due to a combination of abnormal biomechanics, inappropriate loading of the knee and muscle and tendon weakness and tightness. This condition requires a biomechanical assessment to diagnose any irregularities of how the knee, ankle and hip are working and then treatment to decrease the aggravation around the knee and specific stretching and strengthening exercises to correct these underlying factors. Things you can do to minimize your risk of patello-femoral syndrome

Lateral elbow pain, tennis elbow, lateral epicondylitis, extensor tendinopathy. It’s all too common in modern society. It is actually caused by repetitive wrist actions, not elbow movement. Too much mouse and typing work, repetitive use with tools such as hammer, screwdriver, etc, and household activities like painting, sanding, gardening etc. This pain can range from mildly annoying to completely debilitating. Far too many people put up with this issue for far too long thinking “it will just get better”. Chances are it will not “just get better” and if the symptoms do “just go”

Have you recently sprained your ankle? Are you prone to mis-stepping? After all the swelling has subsided the solution to getting you better lies in proprioception. Your body’s mind map or awareness of its position in space is referred to as proprioception. It is a key component in your recovery and the prevention of reoccurring injuries. After a recent sprained ankle, the map becomes unclear and you lose the ability to send accurate positional information and react upon it. This is one of the reasons that people continually roll the same ankle over and

Have you been suffering with headaches that just won’t go away? Headaches can really interfere with your daily life and make it difficult to complete simple everyday tasks. At Back to Health Physio in Newport, we want to help you get pain free, because what many people don’t realise is that physiotherapy treatment can help in a massive way. We are going to share what the most common causes are and what we can do to help you through it. Most of the patients we see who are suffering from severe headaches generally experience

We all know doing exercise is beneficial for a host of problems: It will give us energy and help our breathing and circulation It protects us from dementias It will help decrease symptoms of arthritis It can help decrease the incidence of mental illness It will reduce the risk of colon cancer If there was a pill that did what exercise does we would all be taking it! The real question is, what do we do and how often? The World Health Ogranisation Guideliness suggest that we should be exercising for at least 20

Do you spend a lot of time texting, emailing from your phone or smart device, flicking through social media, or just generally looking down at your smart devices? If your answer was yes, and you are suffering from acute neck pain, you may be experiencing Tech Neck. Tech Neck is a repetitive strain injury and one that is seen in a growing number of patients. An increasing number of teens and adolescents are experiencing aggravating muscle pain in their necks, shoulders and occasionally their lower backs. This causes them to be in a lot