mobility

Working From Home Survival Guide

Working From Home Survival Guide

Is working from home making you ill and injured? Are you in pain & stiffer than ever? Are you feeling isolated and unsupported? The risks are real and you are not alone. This survival guide will help you make better choices to reduce pain & stiffness and look after your body and mind. What are you waiting for? Follow our top tips to move more, organise yourself and have a positive impact on your physical and mental health

Back Pain - A Self Help Guide

Back Pain - A Self Help Guide

Back pain is very common. It’s frustrating at best and debilitating at worst. This guide will help you develop strategies for long term change to get rid of back pain and stay pain free long term. No magic bullet or ‘Guru’ advice here, just sensible and actionable tips allowing you to take control and start your journey to a pain free back.

Animal flows - What, How and Why?

Animal flows - What, How and Why?

Animal flows are a great addition to any exercise plan, warm up routine or injury prevention plan. Learning to move like a monkey, frog, or bear helps to build full body strength, mobility and motor control which in turn will make you a more awesome human and less prone to injury. This blog with video tutorials will explain what these movements are, how to utilise them and why you should should be doing them

Stiff back? Try our simple six step mobility routine

Stiff back? Try our simple six step mobility routine

6 step mobility stretch routine to ease back stiffness and relieve back pain. Practice daily and you will see improvements in your range of movement and alleviate tension, stiffness and pain in your back.

Stiff achy hips? Tightness or weakness and what can you do about it?

Stiff achy hips? Tightness or weakness and what can you do about it?

Complete hip mobility routine to increase range of motion, reduce pain and improve function. Explore your own limitations and work to improve them with daily practice of this routine. Rid yourself of stiff achy hips and restore strong, healthy movement while improving athletic ability.

Tight shoulders? This routine will fix you up

5 step shoulder stretch routine to relieve stiffness and tension. Discover a new range of motion and rid yourself of nagging tightness in your shoulders and upper back

Back Strengthening Exercises for Desk-Based Workers

Back Strengthening Exercises for Desk-Based Workers

Let one of our Physios, Danny Wray, take you through a set of exercises which will help to strengthen your back and hips and that help counteract the negative effects of sitting.

Running injury prevention; do you need a musculoskeletal screening?

Sports-specific screening available!

Musculoskelatal screenings are available from our team of experienced and expert Sports Physiotherapists – but what is it? Imagine, someone could look you over and help flag issues before they become injuries!

Here's what Jonny says:

“A 60-minute assessment which will include a full body assessment of flexibility, strength, balance and body control to highlight potential for injury or problem shoot issues experienced by a runner. This may also include treatment if needed as well as education on issues flagged up with suggestions of how to fix these.”

We have a broad spectrum of sports expertise here at Physio Effect – everything from running, martial arts and football to rugby, mountain biking and roller derby! Whatever your sport or activity, whatever your level, we’ll be able to assess and treat you!

Sport Specific Screening at Physio Effect Glasgow

#KnowledgeShare – Shoulders Month – Rotator Cuff

#KnowledgeShare – Shoulders Month – Rotator Cuff

We see a lot of clients coming to us with shoulder injuries – sometimes it’s not what they think! In this new video, Danny gives us a the basics (and a bit more!) on the rotator cuff!

#KnowledgeShare – Shoulders Month – Mobility Exercises

#KnowledgeShare – Shoulders Month – Mobility Exercises

Physio Effect physiotherapist Jonny Kilpatrick demonstrates some exercises to improve overhead range of movement using small equipment you’ll find in your gym

Foam Rolling: What is it? What’s the Evidence? How to apply it!

Foam Rolling: What is it? What’s the Evidence? How to apply it!

Self-myofascial release is a name given to the use of equipment or tools to perform self-massage and stretching with the aim of increasing joint range of motion and improving muscle recovery and performance. One of the most commonly used tools is a foam roller. You will often see people in gyms attempting to manoeuvre their bodies in various positions over one of these rollers.