Matwork Pilates Written by: Nicola Kennedy Description Pilates is a low impact alternative for body conditioning. It was originally developed in the early 20thCentury by Joseph Pilates. Joseph was born in Germany in 1880 and suffered with rickets, asthma, and rheumatic fever as a child. He had always aspired to be [...]
Strength and Conditioning Written by: Tom Stainer Strength and conditioning has shown to reduce sports injuries by a third, and overuse injuries by 50%. Comparatively, stretching reduces risk of injury by 4%. Alongside monitoring training load, strength and conditioning has the greatest effect on injury prevention. So what is Strength and [...]
Manual Therapy and Soft Tissue Techniques Written by: Faye Appleby 17 February 2021 Description Manual therapy is a treatment option and service we offer at Elite Physical Medicine, it is defined as ‘skilled hand movements intended to improve tissue extensibility’. The aim of the treatment is to increase any lost [...]
Managing The Adolescent Athlete Written by: Faye Appleby, Edited by: Andy McCrea 8th February 2021 Today, Paul and Andy, our Clinical Directors, have been showing off their virtual webinar skills (loosely!) for Ashfold school, parents and teaching staff. Both Paul and Andy have a wealth of knowledge and [...]
Has your surgery been delayed or cancelled due to COVID-19? Written by: Andy McCrea and Gabrielle Jackson The past 12 months has seen a huge stress on healthcare systems and in this most recent lockdown many non-essential and orthopaedic services are being delayed or cancelled. Specialist physiotherapists, consultants, doctors [...]
Muscle Strength Testing Written by: Gabrielle Jackson, Edited by: Faye Appleby 29th January 2021 At Elite Physical Medicine, a crucial part of your treatment plan, usually involves regular muscle testing. Muscle testing is where the physiotherapist uses objective markers to measure the muscle strength of a patient. Testing muscle strength [...]
Congratulations to Tom, one of our physiotherapists, who has started his journey and passion in lecturing. Tom has recently been teaching about outcome measures that are used in rehabilitation for junior doctors studying BSci Sports Medicine at University College London (UCL). As honorary lecturer, Tom led a virtual zoom lecture and created videos [...]
As a healthcare provider we are able to remain OPEN for new and existing patients for face to face and online consultations throughout lockdown.
Following guidance from NHS England and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy we are pleased to announce that we shall be able to offer ‘face to face’ consultations, where clinically appropriate from Monday 18th May 2020 at our Aylesbury clinic. Primarily we will continue to offer remote consultations for patients. We will offer patients [...]
Sorry to inform you but we have decided to shut our clinics until further notice. We all have a social responsibility to arrest this virus, please stay in touch and we will continue to support you via video conferencing or by telephone. Please contact clinic for further information, stay well, stay active, with [...]
