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Pain Management and Injury Treatment Clinics -

1186 Argyle St, Finnieston , Glasgow, G3 8TE, 0141 334 1223

Unit 5 Kildean Business & Enterprise Hub, Drip Road Stirling, FK8 1RW, 01786 625025

Highly Experienced Qualified Injury Assessment, Treatment and Bespoke Exercise Rehabilitation plans for every client. Treatments may be a combination of,-

FIDN Dry Needling
Manuaal Therapy
Cryotherapy
IASTM
Soft Tissue Mobilisations
Cupping Therapy
Exercise Rehabilitation Advice

18/02/2026

Why shock AIFIDN needles in infraspinatus? ⚡️💉

Dry needling on its own can:

✔️ Create a local twitch response
✔️ Reduce tone
✔️ Modulate pain
✔️ Improve short term range

But adding electro stimulation through the needles changes the game.

When we “shock” the needle, we’re not just chasing a twitch. We’re creating sustained neuromodulation.

🔹 Repeated rhythmic depolarisation
🔹 Stronger segmental inhibition
🔹 Longer lasting reduction in guarding
🔹 Increased local circulation

For overhead athletes, lifters, throwers, and anyone with posterior shoulder pain, infraspinatus is often:

• Overactive
• Guarding due to instability
• Compensating for weak serratus or lower trap
• Irritated from repetitive overhead load

Low frequency stimulation can help calm tone and reset motor control.
Higher frequency settings can be more analgesic focused.

But here’s the key 👇

Shocking a needle is not the treatment. It’s a tool.

If you don’t follow it with:

🏋️ Scapular control work
🏸 Rotator cuff endurance
💪 Serratus activation
🔁 Proper loading progression

You’ve just reduced symptoms temporarily.

Treatment should create space.
Rehab should own it.

Spaces available on our next Glasgow Dry Needling course!

Module 1 - 5th-6th March

📍Sports Therapy Scotland
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17/02/2026

Why mobilise the shoulder with the arm raised? 🤔

Because most people do not get symptoms with their arm by their side.

They get pain, pinch or stiffness when the arm is elevated.

Think:

🏋️ Pressing overhead
🎾 Serving or throwing
🏊 Swimming
🏸 Smashing
🏐 Blocking
🧱 Reaching into cupboards
💼 Lifting at work

Mobilising in elevation with a traction belt allows:

🔹 Specific inferior glide where it is actually limited
🔹 Posterior glide bias in abduction and ER
🔹 Reduced superior humeral head dominance
🔹 Improved tolerance at end range
🔹 Better carryover to real life and sport

The belt gives sustained decompression and better direction control without fighting the client’s guarding.

If symptoms live at 130 degrees, treat 130 degrees.

Position dictates adaptation.

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14/02/2026

💉 AIFIDN – Module 1: Functional Integrated Dry Needling
📍 Glasgow | Sports Therapy Scotland

Ready to take your assessment and treatment skills to the next level?

Our AIFIDN Module 1 course introduces clinicians to the principles of Functional Integrated Dry Needling, combining evidence-informed reasoning with practical, hands-on application.

This isn’t just trigger point needling.
You’ll learn how to integrate dry needling into full clinical reasoning and movement-based rehab.

🔹 Functional anatomy review
🔹 Safe and effective needle handling
🔹 Local and distal needling approaches
🔹 Clinical reasoning and treatment planning
🔹 Contraindications, precautions & safety protocols
🔹 Hands-on practical application

Perfect for Sports Therapists, Physiotherapists, Chiropractors and other MSK clinicians looking to expand their scope with confidence.

Small group teaching. High tutor contact. Real clinical integration.

If you’re serious about developing your manual therapy toolkit, this is where it starts.

📆 Limited spaces available
🔗 Book online via the link in our bio
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📞 Or call 0141 334 1223 to secure your place

12/02/2026

👐 Manual Therapy Course – Peripheral & Spinal Mobilisations
📅 2nd & 3rd March 2026
📍 Glasgow
💰 £700.00

Elevate your hands-on clinical skills with a focused 2-day practical CPD course designed for therapists who want structured clinical reasoning before applying mobilisation techniques. You’ll learn how to assess and treat peripheral joints and the spine using mobilisations that make sense in practice.

Over the two days you’ll cover:

✅ Peripheral joint mobilisation techniques for shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle and foot
✅ Spinal mobilisation methods for cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacro-iliac areas
✅ Examination and assessment protocols for all regions taught
✅ Clinical reasoning – when and why to choose specific techniques
✅ Practical application throughout with belts supplied for ongoing use

This course is highly practical and suited to qualified clinicians already in practice including sports therapists, physios, massage therapists and similar professionals.

📲 Book via the link in our bio
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📞 Call 0141 334 1223

11/02/2026

🧠 MSK Assessment Course
📅 23rd February 2026
📍 Sports Therapy Scotland
💰 £350

Want to level up your clinical reasoning and confidence with musculoskeletal assessments?

This full-day practical course is designed for therapists who want to sharpen their assessment structure, improve differential diagnosis, and feel clear on what they’re actually treating.

You’ll cover:

✅ Subjective assessment structure
✅ Objective testing frameworks
✅ Special tests – when to use and when not to
✅ Red flags and clinical decision making
✅ Building a clear treatment plan from your findings
✅ Hands-on practical application throughout

No fluff. No random tests.
Just structured, evidence-informed MSK assessment that actually makes sense in clinic.

Perfect for:
• Sports massage therapists
• Sports rehabilitators
• Physios
• Personal trainers wanting better injury understanding
• Students looking to build confidence

Spaces will be limited to keep it practical and hands-on.

📲 Book online via the link in our bio
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📞 Call 0141 334 1223

08/02/2026

Hamstring strain & K-Tape 🎽

What it does and what it doesn’t 👇

✔️ May help reduce pain through sensory input
✔️ Can improve confidence and movement tolerance
✔️ May assist with swelling and load awareness

❌ Not a fix
❌ Doesn’t speed up healing on its own

Best used alongside progressive loading, strength work, and rehab.

Tape supports movement. Rehab restores tissue 💪

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06/02/2026

😩Do you have Hip Pain? Try this Mobilisation treatment in clinic for pain relief!

👉 Mobilisations are a hands-on technique designed to relieve pain, restore mobility, and get you moving freely again.

Used daily in our clinic.

✨ Want to master this technique? Join our Manual Therapy Course, where we teach a huge amount of manual therapy methods and their clinical implications.

04/02/2026

🔵 Low Back & Pelvic Distraction for Back and Hip Pain 🔵

Persistent low back or hip pain often isn’t just about tight muscles.
Joint compression, altered pelvic mechanics, and reduced space around sensitive structures can all contribute.

👉 Pelvic distraction aims to:
✅ Reduce joint compression through the lumbar spine and hips
✅ Improve movement freedom and perceived range of motion
✅ Decrease pain sensitivity via mechanoreceptor stimulation
✅ Support better movement patterns post-treatment

This technique is often combined with soft tissue work, joint mobilisations, dry needling, and progressive rehab depending on what your assessment shows.

Pain relief without understanding the cause rarely lasts.
We assess first, then treat what actually matters.

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🦴 Evidence-informed. Individualised. Built for long-term results.

03/02/2026

Week 3 Sports Massage Insight 🦵

Calf petrissage focusing on creating space between superficial muscle tissue and deeper structures 👋

👉This work supports tissue glide, reduces guarding, and helps desensitise areas that feel tight or bruised close to the shin. Subtle, evidence-informed soft tissue work with a big impact when applied correctly.

Want to learn why and how to apply techniques like this properly?

Our next Level 3 Sports Massage course in collaboration with starts 8th February.

Ideal for those wanting solid clinical foundations and hands-on skills that translate directly into practice.

📍 Glasgow
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31/01/2026

🚗 Whiplash? Here’s how we approach it.

This is IASTM (Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation) - a manual therapy technique used to address soft tissue restrictions following neck injuries, including whiplash.

It can assist with:
✔️ Reducing myofascial tension
✔️ Improving range of motion
✔️ Supporting local blood flow
✔️ Guiding soft tissue healing through mechanical stimulation

Whiplash symptoms may include:
🔹 Neck stiffness
🔹 Headaches
🔹 Shoulder tension
🔹 Pain with movement

This technique is applied as part of a structured, evidence-informed rehab plan - not a standalone fix.

📍Book a full assessment at Sports Therapy Scotland
📞 0141 334 1223
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29/01/2026

😩Do you Have Low Back Pain or Sciatica? Try this Mobilisation treatment for pain relief!

✅Follow for pain relief tips!

👉 Mobilisations are a hands-on technique designed to relieve pain, restore mobility, and get you moving freely again.

Used daily in our clinic.

✨ Want to master this technique? Join our Manual Therapy Course, where we teach a huge amount of manual therapy methods and their clinical implications.

27/01/2026

Wrist pain… treated at the elbow? 👀

This is a traction belt elbow mobilisation with movement
Used when wrist pain shows up during gripping or loading, but the wrist itself isn’t the primary pain driver.

🔹 What this actually does
Joint mobilisation can produce short-term reductions in pain and improvements in movement or grip by influencing the nervous system’s response to load. It does not realign joints or fix tissue damage.

🔹 Why we use it
Reducing pain temporarily creates a window where the wrist can move and load more comfortably, allowing proper rehabilitation to take place.

🔹 Important
Hands-on techniques are not the solution on their own. Long-term change comes from progressive loading and movement retraining.

Evidence-informed. No gimmicks. No false claims.

📲 Book online via the link in our bio
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📞 Call 0141 334 1223

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Pain Management and Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Clinics, -

- 1186 Argyle St, Finnieston , Glasgow, G3 8TE, 0141 334 1223 - Unit 4 Kildean Business & Enterprise Hub, Drip Road, Raploch, Stirling, FK8 1RW 01786 625025

With 20 years clinical experience working in professional sport and more recently with Netflix looking after the actor Chris Pine on Outlaw King 2017, and with Sony Pictures International 2018. We offer the following within our clinics.

Treatments,-

Expert musculo-skeletal assessment FIDN Dry Needling

Manual Therapy, Maitland and Mulligans mobilisations techniques.

Cryotherapy, localised cryotherapy for pain management, and performance.

Expert exercise rehabilitation advice and prescription.

Kinesiology Taping with our unique menthol infused MKT tape

Teaching the Following Educational Courses,-

Manual Therapy, - Spinal Mobilisations

Manual Therapy, - Peripheral Mobilisation

FIDN - Modules 1-3

MKT Kinesiology Taping

Fundamentals of Musculo-skeletal Assessment

Surface Anatomy

Functional Integrated Cupping Therapy

Get in touch to book an appointment or one of our very popular educational courses.

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Team STS