Living with Chronic Pain: How Physiotherapy Can Help You Take Back Control
When people think of physiotherapy, they often picture sports injuries, post-surgery rehab, or a stiff neck that needs loosening up. But there’s another area where physiotherapy plays a powerful — and often underestimated — role: chronic pain management. Chronic pain physiotherapy focuses on helping you understand your pain, regain movement, and retrain your body and […]
Basics of ‘Sciatica’
What is Sciatica?The term ‘sciatica’ is a term that is poorly defined in research and the online world. At PowerBuild Physiotherapy we use the definition that is described in the clinical care standard: sciatica or radicular pain is pain going down the leg that is thought to involve irritation or compression of one or more […]
Trigger Point Therapy: What It Is and How It Works
Trigger point therapy is a type of massage therapy that involves applying pressure to specific points in muscles that are tender and tight. These points are called trigger points and they can cause pain and referred pain (pain that is felt in a different area of the body). Trigger points are thought to be caused […]
