Blog Posts
Let's Get Shetland Moving
April 7, 2019 Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
In Shetland sometimes people do not move enough in winter. Here is the start of a series of blog posts to try and get people moving more.
Episode 11 - How does it feel when us therapists get injured?
August 9, 2018 Physiotherapy
How does it feel when one of us therapists gets injured? This article will help to put ankle injuries into a different light for you.
Episode 10 - How Has Pain Helped You Today?
July 10, 2018 Physiotherapy Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog Osteopathy
A different perspective on pain and how we can change it.
Episode 9 - Are you running towards an Injury?
April 25, 2018 Physiotherapy Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
How to avoid injuries when starting a new endurance based fitness programme. This post includes some of the risk factors for running related injuries.
Episode 8 - That time after Up Helly Aa and before the rest of the year.
February 6, 2018 Physiotherapy Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
Sports specific training in Shetland sometimes is shortened because training plans are squeezed into a shorter space of time. Here are some thoughts on how to look after yourself through this.
Episode 7 - What kind of stretches Should I do?
January 24, 2018 Physiotherapy Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
Posture - stretching - are your muscles short and stiff or long and weak
Episode 6 - Pain in the Front of Your Knee
November 30, 2017 Physiotherapy
Episode 6 - Pain in the Front of Your KneeBy Stella McCall
Five Ways to Avoid Injuries When Getting Fit for Christmas
November 15, 2017 Physiotherapy Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
Five ways to avoid injuries when getting fit for Christmas
You are what you do: Part 2
November 10, 2017 Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog Physiotherapy
You are what you do: Part 2Has evolution caused your pain?
Episode 3 - 17/08/2017 - Positive strain and positive pain.
August 17, 2017 Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
What could be causing your pain? Is there actually something wrong with your body or is there something wrong in your life?
You Become What You Do: Part 1
January 13, 2017 Physiotherapy
Here is the first blog of 2017. You become what you do: Part 1. With the health focus of a new year, have a think about the things you might be doing that cause pain.
Do I really have to do these exercises?
November 23, 2016 Physiotherapy
Some advice if you want to make sure your exercises get done as suggested by your therapist.
Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
November 2, 2016 Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
Healthy, Happy and Not Injured: The Injury Shetland Blog
The Injury Shetland story: the first 5 years
June 24, 2016 Physiotherapy
Injury Shetland has grown bigger and faster than we ever thought possible. To celebrate our fifth birthday at Injury Shetland, we will have various offers and we want to say a huge thank-you to everyone who has been involved along the way.
Developing young people. How much sport is too much?
March 16, 2016 Physiotherapy
As young people get older their body changes a lot. These changes can increase the risk of injuries or pain at different ages and stages of development.
Osteopathy for Mum and Baby
December 11, 2015
Osteopathic treatment can help the body adapt to the changes that occur during pregnancy as your baby grows.
Physiotherapist, osteopath or chiropractor?
September 11, 2015 Physiotherapy
What is the difference between physiotherapy, osteopathy and chiropractic?
Postural Dysfunction
September 11, 2015 Physiotherapy
Our bodies are designed for movement. We are not designed to be in one position for a prolonged period of time. Modern lifestyles often involve lots of sitting and we are in a flexed posture for much longer periods than we have been designed for.
Joint Pain
September 11, 2015 Physiotherapy
There are many different types of joint and each is designed to move in a particular way. Some joints move in one direction (for example a hinge joint like the knee or elbow), and other joints move in many different directions (for example a ball and socket joint like the shoulder or hip).
Cartilage tear
September 11, 2015 Physiotherapy
Cartilage comes in different forms. One type of cartilage is the shiny stuff on the ends of bones. That helps to protect the ends of the bone during joint movement.The other type of cartilage – the type we will discuss here – includes structures like the Meniscus of the knee and the Labrum of the hip and shoulder joints.
Tendinopathy
September 11, 2015 Physiotherapy
The word Tendinopathy basically means pathology of a tendon. It is an umbrella term for anything wrong with a tendon.
Preventing injuries in young people
September 11, 2015 Physiotherapy
We are seeing more and more young people in the clinic who have adult type of injuries. The good news is that many of these injuries can be prevented.
