The COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak most likely has increased your stress and anxiety levels. There is uncertainty about how the outbreak will effect our health, social engagement and employment. These stressors can manifest as physical pain in the head and neck region of your body. I have found myself having headaches and jaw pain due to …
Month: April 2020
Key features of a Cervicogenic Headache (CGH) include: main symptoms originate from the neck with movement or sustained, awkward head position external pressure at the base of skull and/or upper neck is present restriction of movement of the neck location/hemisphere of head pain does not shift to the other side Moderate-severe non throbbing pain that …
There are a plethora of musculoskeletal structures which can cause or contribute to lateral hip pain. The hip is a region of converging information and tends to muddy the water when is comes too diagnosis based on symptoms only. What I mean is that there are multiple musculoskeletal sources of adult hip pain. Pain sources …
What happens when you have a rapid acceleration deceleration event? This is not just related to a motor vehicle accident, it could be a fall on the ice or sport related trauma. What is whiplash? Whiplash typically occurs when your head is forcefully and quickly moved backward and then forward. This rapid acceleration deceleration event …
My Vision for this blog is to provide a way for anyone around the world to access musculoskeletal healthcare advice and management. I have been a Physiotherapist for 26 years in orthopedic manual therapy, finding myself unable to provide hands on care for the time being. I feel a loss of my village ie: patients …