Whiplash: What Helps After a Collision
Whiplash is a neck injury from sudden acceleration, usually a rear-end collision. The evidence consensus surprises people: early, gentle return to normal activity beats collars and rest.
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Short reads about moving well, recovering, and what home physiotherapy involves.
Vertigo (BPPV): The Spinning That Has a Mechanical Fix
Rolling over in bed sets the room spinning for thirty seconds, that is BPPV, loose crystals in the inner ear, and it is one of the most fixable problems in all of healthcare.
Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow: The Grip That Hurts
Pain on the outside of the elbow (tennis) or the inside (golfer's), usually neither tennis nor golf is involved. What the landmark JAMA trial says about injections, and the loading program that works long-term.
Tendonitis (Tendinopathy): Why Load, Not Rest, Heals Tendons
The "-itis" is misleading: chronic tendon pain is rarely inflammation. The continuum model explains what is happening inside the tendon, and why progressive loading is the treatment.
Stroke (CVA): Recovery Is Rehabilitation
After the emergency of a stroke comes the longer work of recovery. What Canadian stroke guidelines say rehabilitation should look like, early, intensive, and continued at home.
Sprains, Strains and Tears: First Aid and the Recovery After
Sprain, strain, tear, three words people use interchangeably for different tissues. What each one means, what to do in the first 48 hours, and why the rehab after the pain fades is the part that prevents the sequel.
Spinal Cord Injury: Rehabilitation and Life After
A spinal cord injury rewrites how the body works below the level of the injury. Rehabilitation, early, specialised, and continued at home, is how function, independence, and health are rebuilt.
Shoulder Pain: The Night-Time Ache Explained
Shoulder pain that stops you lying on that side, hurts reaching up, and aches after rather than during activity, the most common pattern is the rotator cuff, and it responds to progressive loading.
Shoulder Dislocations: After It Goes Back In
Putting the shoulder back is the emergency. What happens next, how long to rest it, when rehab starts, and the age factor that decides recurrence risk, is where the long-term result is made.
Sciatica: The Pain That Runs Down the Leg
Sciatica is a symptom, not a diagnosis, leg pain driven by an irritated nerve root in the lower back. The reassuring part: most cases resolve within three months. The part to take seriously: the exceptions.
Rotator Cuff Injuries: Tear Does Not Automatically Mean Surgery
Rotator cuff problems range from an irritated tendon to a full tear. A well-known Finnish trial found many tears do just as well with physiotherapy as with surgery, here is how the decision breaks down.
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Movement Is Part of the Treatment
RA is an immune condition that attacks joints, and for years people were told to rest it. The evidence says the opposite: aerobic and strength exercise are safe, effective, and recommended alongside medication.
Plantar Fasciitis: The First-Step Heel Pain
Agony with the first steps of the morning, easing as you move, back after a long sit. Plantar fasciitis has one of the best-proven home treatments in all of physiotherapy.
Pinched Nerve: Pain That Travels
Pain that shoots into the arm or leg, tingling in a stripe of skin, a heavy or weak limb, the "pinched nerve" pattern. What is actually irritating the nerve, and why most cases settle without surgery.
Disc Bulge and Herniation: Less Scary Than the MRI Report
Your scan says "disc bulge" or "herniation" and the words sound catastrophic. The reality: most herniations shrink on their own, most people avoid surgery, and movement is part of the cure.
Parkinson’s Disease: Moving Bigger, Walking Safer
Parkinson's gradually makes movements smaller, slower, and less automatic. Physiotherapy works directly on that: amplitude training, cueing strategies, walking practice, and falls prevention.
Osteoporosis: Building Stronger Bones and Safer Movement
Osteoporosis is silent until a fracture speaks for it. The 2023 Canadian guideline on what actually protects you: the right exercise (balance plus resistance), fall prevention, and medication when indicated.
Osteoarthritis: The Joint Is Worn, Not Worn Out
Osteoarthritis pain does not track neatly with X-ray damage, and the treatment with the strongest evidence is exercise. Why "wear and tear" is the wrong picture, and what actually helps.
Neurological Conditions: What Physiotherapy Has to Offer
Stroke, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and others, neurological conditions differ widely, but rehab works on a shared principle: the nervous system learns from practice.
Meniscal Tears of the Knee: Surgery Is Not the Only Door
A torn meniscus sounds like a surgical problem. For the common degenerative kind, the two best trials say physiotherapy does as well. Here is how to tell which situation you are in.
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Why Walking Gets Harder
The classic story: legs that ache and tire after a block or two, better the moment you sit or lean on a shopping cart. Why stenosis behaves that way, and what non-surgical care can do.
Ligament Injuries: Sprains, Stability, and the Work After
Ligaments do more than hold joints together, they tell the brain where the joint is. Why sprains need exercise rehab (not just rest), and how re-injury gets prevented.
Labral Tears of the Hip: The Deep Groin Ache
A labral tear usually announces itself as deep groin pain that clicks or catches. Why it happens (often the hip's shape is part of it), and why rehab comes before surgery for most people.
Knee Replacement: The Bend, the Work, the Payoff
After a total knee replacement, two things decide your result: getting the knee straight, and bending it again. What the first twelve weeks of rehab actually involve.