Most ACL injuries are managed along the same lines. An athlete feels a pop playing sport, so they book in to see a GP or physiotherapist, they get an MRI and are then referred to a knee surgeon, who then books an operation to reconstruct...
A New Age Of ACL Management Whether the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee can heal or not is a simple question with a simple binary answer. However it is the cause of much mis-information and more recently some debate. There is a growing body of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
