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Simple Ways To Reduce Sciatica

Posted at 04:36h in Uncategorized

Sciatica is a general term used to describe any pain referring down the leg that emanates from the lower back.  It is non-specific and used more commonly by the general public than health professionals. The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve that exits the spinal...

Our Response to COVID-19

Posted at 02:32h in Latest News

Your Health and Well-Being is of the Utmost Importance to Us In response to the growing cases of COVID-19, we have made some changes to ensure Tokyo Physio can continue to serve our patients, as we have done since 2002. Safety Measures We have made some changes to...

26 Jul

R.I.C.E Stopped By P.O.L.I.C.E

Posted at 04:29h in Latest News

One of the best known acronyms in sports medicine is RICE. It has long been the stock standard advice given to anyone who has suffered an acute (new) injury, standing for Rest Ice Compression Elevation. But studies prove that total rest is rarely, if ever, the...

03 Jun

My Top 5 Pet Peeves with Time Trial Bikes

Posted at 08:36h in Latest News

Time Trial (TT) bikes have always been somewhat scorned in the cycling community. If you roll up to many group rides on a TT bike and you will often be met with grunts of disapproval.  'Real' cyclists only ride them a week before a Time...

28 Jun

Our Take on F45 – What Is It And Is It For Me?

Posted at 05:36h in Latest News

Everyone is talking about the new gym studios known as F45. So here is a quick snapshot on what it is, and our take on it’s usefulness and safety. What is F45? F45 stands for Functional 45 minutes. It’s a high intensity workout that changes every day. All...

08 Feb

Train More to Get Injured Less!

Posted at 03:10h in Latest News

Undoubtedly, many of you that read this will have had a running related injury at some point in your lives, statistics show that at least 10% of marathon runners will sustain an injury in a year, and that figure rises to 65% in ultra-marathon runners! Now,...

06 Dec

First, Do No Harm

Posted at 05:26h in Latest News

The Hippocratic Oath is a pledge that all doctors take when they are first registered to practice medicine. It includes the well known and oft-repeated, "First do no harm", from the Greek ‘Primum non nocere’. This is certainly a good thing for doctors and physiotherapists...

29 Sep

Wolff’s Law: Teaching Us How To Keep Our Bones Strong

Posted at 06:43h in Latest News

Wolff's Law was developed by a brilliant German anatomist and surgeon, Julius Wolff (1836–1902). It states that bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed. If loading on a bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over...

26 Jul

Are You Unbalanced?

Posted at 04:10h in Latest News

Our bodies are really just two separate halves desperately trying to align themselves as one. From our right and left sided hemispheres of our brains controlling different sides of our body through to our limbs, one side can turn out quite different to the other....

18 May

Knee Pain and Cycling

Posted at 05:09h in Latest News

Looking through fitness magazines and websites, there is certainly no shortage of information for the runners out there when it comes to performance and injury prevention, however, our other love at Asia Physio; Cycling, seems to be getting ignored, even though the rate of cyclists...