Slow motion analysis by video is a brilliant form of feedback to help analyse motion in any part of the body e.g. abnormal shoulder movement, squat technique or altered gait patterns when walking or running. Seeing is understanding and this allows the brain to learn how to retrain dysfunctional patterns. Gait analysis is performed through walking and running on the treadmill. This can be fedback to you in slow motion to use vital information to interpret your symptoms and find solutions to change the forces transmitted through your musculoskeletal system. All you need is to bring your run kit (running shorts/ leggings/ crop top/ are best to view the whole skeletal system). Wear your running trainers but clean ones only please!

People lose mobility for many reasons and this will be diagnosed first. Short overactive muscles can cause pain putting pressure on other tissues such as nerve roots. We have many techniques to reduce muscle tightness but with also analyse other structures. You may be familiar with continual ineffective hamstring stretching but if the root cause of this tightness is lumbar spine stiffness or nerve tightness then we will address these dysfunctions to help improve your flexibility. Known pathologies can cause loss of motion e.g. osteo or rheumatoid arthritis, joint swelling, adhesive capsulitis. There are many remedies to help reduce the effect of these pathologies and guide you to self manage.

Tight muscles can cause inflammation at their attachments especially during growth spurts - we see many children and adolescents are are troubled by growth plate pain (eg Severs / Osgood Schlatters / Rectus Femoris attachment). Our aim is to create an environment that allows you to continue sport during this phase.

Nerves can become ‘sticky’ following a period of inflammation so we can apply techniques to offload them e.g. taping / advising on sleep, rest and working positions / checking work station set up. They often pass through muscles and close to joint capsules so we are able to mobilise nerves as well as joints to provide the slide and glide that they need to remain healthy and pain free.

Manual therapy may involve a number of techniques from gentle repetitive mobilisations to high velocity manipulation. These techniques are often used to stretch joints, slide nerves and bow tendon tissue to get them moving. Stiff joints are often sore and to the contrary the human body, like machines, functions better when regularly moved in the correct way.