Initial Assessment
Your first assessment at Abbey Physiotherapy will typically be a 30-minute consultation which allows time for a comprehensive assessment and a short treatment in the remaining time available. If you ...
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Our Physiotherapy treatments can involve a number of different treatment and preventative approaches, depending on the specific problems you're experiencing. This will be identified at your first appointment, you will have a detailed assessment to help determine what help you might need.
Acupuncture Clinic
Here at The Abbey Physiotherapy Acupuncture Clinic, we use acupuncture to create a number of effects, such as pain relief, muscle relaxation, and stimulating tissue healing. Abbey Physiotherapy pract ...
Sporting Injury Clinic
Here at Abbey Physiotherapy, we offer sports massage and therapy solutions to treat and rehabilitate sports, hard and soft tissue injuries which cause pain and lifestyle limitations. This is a unique ...
Mobilisations and Massage
Why do Joints and Muscles Stiffen, Tighten or Lock Up? The normal daily function keeps your body working smoothly and well nutritioned but if you suffer an injury or develop disease or postural troub ...
Electrotherapy
Electrotherapy Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as a physiotherapy treatment where healthcare professionals use treatments involving electrical impulses to influence the nervous system ...
Core Strength and Stability Training
What are my core muscles? The “core” is comprised of several groups of muscles including the transversus abdominus, multifidus, diaphragm and pelvic floor muscles. These muscles work together to prod ...
Sports taping Injury Straps & Support Tapes
Taping has been used for a long time for the prevention or treatment of sporting injuries, you have probably been watching some form of sporting activity such as athletics, volleyball or cycling and ...
Exercise Rehabilitation
Exercise for Life Regular exercise is vital to keep us fit and healthy. Sometimes our jobs give us all the exercise we need, but for others, the daily routines do not provide the regular workout our ...
Orthotics
Are your feet aching again? Insoles & orthotics are a popular solution for a number of foot-related issues and can be very effective at reducing pain and addressing other physical or postural problem ...
Sports massage is a firm deep tissue massage therapy which is the most effective therapy for treating muscular pain, tension and for putting your body in balance
Sports Massage
Joint mobilisation techniques focus on attaining a normal range of pain-free joint motion.
Mobilisations
Our Acupuncture Clinic treatment aids tissue healing and based on scientific evidence that shows the treatment can stimulate nerves under the skin and in muscle tissue to allow the body to produce pain-relieving substances
Acupuncture Clinic
TENS is an abbreviation of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. A Tens machine may assist in modest short-term pain relief. Ultrasound aids tissue healing for soft tissue injuries
Electrotherapy
the use of taping and strapping techniques to aid both the treatment and prevention of injury
Sports taping
Rehabilitation is the process to regain full function following injury. This involves restoring strength, flexibility, endurance and power and is achieved through various exercises and drills
Exercise Rehabilitation
An exercise programme that aims to improve stabilisation and support to the spine. This is achieved by re-training specific trunk muscles, which may be under used
Core Strength
Treatment for a sports injury will depend on factors such as how severe the injury is and the part of your body affected.
Sports Injuries
Upper back and neck pain can stop you in your tracks, making it difficult to go about your typical day.
Back Pain
The most common soft tissues injured are muscles, tendons, and ligaments. These injuries often occur during sports and exercise activities, but sometimes simple everyday activities can cause an injury.
Strains and Sprains
A fracture is when a bone has been broken. A dislocation is where a bone has been displaced from its normal position at a joint.
Fractures
Whiplash is a term that describes a neck injury caused by a sudden movement of the head forwards, backwards or sideways
Whiplash Symptoms
A Headache is a pain in any region of the head. Headaches can occur on one or both sides of the head, or be isolated to a certain location. A headache may be a sharp pain, throbbing sensation or dull ache
Headachesis a pain affecting the back, hip, and outer side of the leg, caused by compression of a spinal nerve root in the lower back, often owing to degeneration of an inter-vertebral disc.
SciaticaArthritis is inflammation of one or more of your joints. The main symptoms of arthritis are joint pain and stiffness, which typically worsen with age
Arthritis
a condition in which the prolonged performance of repetitive actions, typically with the hands, causes pain or impairment of function in the tendons and muscles involved
RSI
pre-operative interventions for hip and knee osteoarthritis awaiting joint replacement surgery.
Pre and Post Op