If a person is agitated or confused, they require a need quite a lot of structure to keep them relaxed and prevent over stimulation. Both treatment and assessment should be holistically considered and involve activities that are well known and enjoyed by the person. This...
Management Based on Cognitive Level The rehabilitation of a person who suffers from a traumatic brain injury is difficult and wide ranging due to the array of deficits, presentations, signs, symptoms and issues that can arise from the trauma. It is essential to collaborate with wide a...
Rehabilitative Management Behavioural Deficits These are the most enduring and disabling disorders and deficits associated with a traumatic brain injury. Amongst the issues are: Depression Anxiety Aggression Sexual disinhibition Apathy To ensure the correct assessment and long-term management of these issues it is important to get a...
Rehabilitative Management Cognitive Deficits Disorders Of Learning, Memory & Information Processing These are very common, not fully understood and really impact rehabilitation depending on the level of damage caused as they involve understanding, storing and retrieving information. You may see this present as difficulties in concentration...
Rehabilitative Management Now that thankfully the person has survived the post-traumatic stage the work of the physiotherapist begins. Our job is to return this unfortunate person to the highest level of independent function possible. Sounds simple, but it can be a very complex, changeable and frustrating...
Physiotherapy Lead Rehabilitation Of A Traumatic Head Injury e.g. Post Motor Vehicle Accident Over the coming weeks I am going to discuss the management of people who have suffered a traumatic head injury. Initially and briefly, I will discuss the acute management of the person, which...
Pain Timelines Injury Examples Freeze Phase – Initial pain where you feel tense and unable to move Instant pain perceived most injuries or potential injuries Takes your attention and possible concern Aim to self-help or request help Lasts a few seconds to a couple of...
Appointment two 'Window shopping’ is when you are walking down the road and something in a window catches your eye. You carry on walking but eyes stay on the object you are passing. It may be only for a few seconds but it is very important...
Appointment two So as with all clients I asked how they were, how things are going and have they any questions. Then as we are dealing with limited and tense movement, guarded movement and muscle spasm, increased tone and tension all of which are basically the...
Biomedical As stated I didn’t really have any idea of the force involved in the incident, there had been no scan or X-ray to clear for fracture or nerve impingement and I had no clear picture of neurological status. This was priority one. I often look...
“Look, try the physio for a few months and if they don’t sort it, come back and we will”. Knee Rehabilitation Let’s use one of the most well-known operations for easy of analysis, the arthroscopy of an arthritic knee. Arthroscopic surgery is commonly used for knee pain...
I had a person in recently who was very upset after a car accident ten days previously. She could not maintain eye contact while speaking and looked stressed and tired. She described pain spreading over her head and behind her eyes as she waited (shock...
Treating Pain To treat pain, it is a very good idea to try to figure out as best you can what exactly is wrong, where the pain is coming from, why the issue has occurred and what is exact best evidence-based recovery. The unnerving thing for...
Diagnosing the Shoulder Here at Galway Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation we have had many clients in lately misdiagnosed by their GPs with the lazy diagnosis for all shoulder movement restrictions, “Frozen Shoulder”. While I don’t mind misdiagnoses as they are common place, happen all the time in all...
Recently I found myself helping a young person with long-standing, incredible pain behaviour which led me to find a sense of balance between a very mild version of the ‘hard medicine’ approach and my personal take on the graded exposure model. In other words, I...
The predominant dysfunction with an ACL injury is knee instability. Successful management must include an accurate assessment of this impairment and establishing realistic and yet specific individual goals...
We work with clients using techniques such as dry needling, heat, joint mobilisation, soft tissue massage, postural and workstation setup advice, stretching and strengthening exercises...
Most people can expect to experience some neck pain (cervicalgia) in their lifetime. Neck pain has many causes ranging from an injury or strain to chronic postural-related...
Carpal tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a common condition that causes numbness, tingling, and pain in the hand and forearm...
After some early years with Galway Rovers and Cregmore I first joined Oranmore FC in 1999 when I started at Calasanctius and haven’t missed a season of football since...
Lower back pain is a common problem for people presenting to us in the clinic. However many episodes can have a good prognosis, where considerable improvements can be seen in just a few weeks...
Dry needling involves single-use thin sterile needles being gently inserted into trigger points. Needling is used within a physio session to target trigger points to reduce pain and restore function...
The primary aim of Physiotherapy is to restore movement, strength and function to someone who has been affected by an injury or a disability...
Clinical Pilates is a form of exercise used to assist people suffering from acute or chronic injuries e.g. back pain, general weakness or a reduction in function as well as those recovering from an injury or surgery...
Deep Tissue Massage involves applying sustained pressure using slow, deep strokes to target the inner layers of your muscles and connective tissues...
MWM involves concurrent glides applied by a physio with active movement to the end range by the patient....
Manipulation is a fast, accurate movement applied to an area on the body to provide pain relief and improve the mobility and function of your soft tissues, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments...
Manual Cervical traction is used to treat neck pain. It can help separate the bones, discs, and joints in your neck...
Taping involves placing strips of special tape on your body in specific directions to help support your joints...
Using meditation along with a treatment plan has been scientifically proven to help with pain states, particularly chronic pain...
Exercise rehabilitation is a personally prescribed set of exercises and ongoing,m progressive and changeable plans that range from passive movements to professional strengthening exercises to rehabilitate and recover from surgery or injuries...
Post-surgical rehabilitation is a type of physiotherapy that occurs through the collaboration of patients and their physiotherapists with the aim of getting your desired results e.g. restoring correct function and movement of the joint before returning to enjoy golf...
In order to treat and prevent dysfunction and pain we can perform a thorough biomechanical and postural assessment to determine amongst other things, inactive areas of the body and abnormal load throughout other parts of the body...
The FMS is a great evaluation tool to reveal a movement dysfunction or asymmetry that could be the crack in your exercise foundation...
Physiotherapy plays a role in injury rehabilitation, injury prevention and performance enhancement. Pre-season injury prevention screenings are a vital assessment for every athlete...
Pitch-side physiotherapy incorporates match day preparation, immediate injury assessment and care along with immediate injury management by a professionally registered physiotherapist and followed by post match analysis and injury recovery planning and prevention...
We host workshops discussing pilates, nutrition, yoga, meditation and exercise best practices from our years of experience with physiotherapy and nutritional therapy...
The goal of an ergonomic or workplace assessment is to identify potential risk factors and quantify them so that you can make measurable improvements in the workplace environment...
The slipped disk is a widely feared, misdiagnosed, misunderstood and often very manageable and self-resolving intervertebral disc issue...
Have you ever wondered what conditions can be treated with Physiotherapy? This is a list and a great place to start if you are looking for some info...
We all experience some degree of pain and wear and tear with our bodies as we move through life. If the pain or stiffness you are feeling is affecting your daily life there are many treatment options available to you...
Dry needling is a procedure where a fine needle is inserted into the skin and muscle or soft tissue...