Your Core is the Key! Physiotherapy Bedfordview wishes every single member of our community a happy, safe, healthy and prosperous 2022! Let’s hope it’s not twenty-twenty, too. This time of year is full of resolutions and goals; have you made any? Have you already given up on some? (No need …

Coping with a COVID Christmas (…again) 2021 has flown by, at the beginning we were all hoping to be rid of COVID-19 by now which seems almost comical with hindsight!  Seeing as we’re all about to have another Christmas season with it as the uninvited guest, we think it is a …

Overuse Injuries – EXPLAINED! Training smart is an art! It’s a common story at this time of year, with many people getting over the winter blues, lacing up their takkies and hitting the road/field/trail only to find themselves sidelined by an injury. Nothing ruins new-season-motivation quite like it; so this …

Summer Running, Having a Blast! Is the song still stuck in your head? It’s stuck in ours, (see the bottom of this emailer for a throwback treat)! As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the birds are chirping earlier and a little louder; let’s use that motivation to dust off …

Summer Running, Having a Blast! Now that we’ve all got a groovy song stuck in our heads, and the birds are chirping earlier and a little louder; let’s use that motivation to dust off your takkies and hit the road or trail! We have pulled together three interval training programs to …

What is Long COVID?   South African National Physiotherapy Week runs from the 6th – 12th of September this year, the theme is “the mental health impact of Covid – and how physiotherapists, can help”.  With this in mind, we thought we’d look specifically at the long-lasting effects of the …

What is sports physiotherapy?   Sports therapy is a specialisation of physiotherapy that is primarily focused on the physical assessment and treatment of injuries related to sports. There is very little difference between a normal musculoskeletal physiotherapist and a sports physiotherapist in their training and knowledge. However, they differ more …

With the 3rd wave of COVID-19’s surging many of us will unfortunately have had COVID and are perhaps still feeling short of breath or have developed a secondary lung infection which produces increased phlegm in your lungs. This can lead to more shortness of breath and prolonged infection.  Today we’ll …

  Many people are loyal to the technology and/or evidence that an XRay scan may present, but can we trust them? Often they are presented by a trustworthy doctor in a lab coat, but what is a physiotherapist perspective on how to read them? It is likely that your doctor …

  Our team have all had their jabs, and so we thought we’d share our experience to help put you at ease for when you are able to get yours. But first, let’s have a quick look at the vaccines and how they work. There are various vaccine methodologies, notably …