AK Physio and Sport Injury Clinic

08/01/2025

Please take care in these icy conditions and remember we now offer a home visits service if you are struggling to get to us.

29/12/2024

04/11/2024

A.K Physio is 20 years old today 🎉. Can't believe it's that many years since I decided to take the plunge and set up on my own! What a great 20 years it's been... over the years we've had clinics in several locations from Formby to Northwich (now just Knutsford 😊), numerous physios/sports rehabbers and therapists working alongside me and hundreds of people treated with lots of lovely patients, many of whom we have treated for a long time for sports massage and maintenance treatment for long term/degenerate conditions. In the past 14 years I've had my lovely Mum Madeline steering the ship and running the business for me and many of you will know her if you have phoned to book an appointment etc. I feel very lucky to have had the pleasure (/stress?! 🤣) of running my own business and working with such great people. Thank you to all my lovely customers for trusting us with your care and helping to make A.K Physio the successful little clinic that it is 😊.

28/10/2024

10% discount on appointments this week when you quote 'Halloween' when booking 🎃🩻

22/03/2024

Sending best wishes to Madeline, our clinic manager, who had a Knee Replacement on Monday. She is the linchpin of A.K Physio and we're hoping she'll soon be back at the helm (especially Abi who is currently manning the phone as well as working in clinic 😂). Please bear with us in the next few weeks if you are trying to get in contact, we might not be able to answer/return your call immediately but we will get back to you as soon as we can 🙂.

22/03/2024

Today is Kat's last day 😢 after over 5 years working for us. We wish her all the best with her upcoming new arrival and for the future.

01/02/2024

DVT's!

We had an interesting case a few weeks ago, which we are sharing with the patient's consent, to highlight that not all DVT's present with classic symptoms. The patient's review below details what happened:

"Abi is extremely thorough and diligent and always ensures you get the most out of every session. I am particularly grateful for her recent diligence in encouraging me to go to the GP, for what turned out to be a deep vein thrombosis (DVT). I just thought it was a very bad calf cramp, as I had none of the other classic signs of a DVT such as swelling, discolouration or warm skin. I am also very active with none of the risk factors for DVT, so it seemed unlikely. Abi examined my leg and suggested I should go to the GP to be on the safe side, as she didn’t think it seemed like a cramp. Sensing I wasn’t going to heed her advice, she also sent me a message later that evening with some information she had found online about DVT not always presenting with classic symptoms, which persuaded me to make a GP appointment. By the time of my GP and subsequent hospital appointment I had zero symptoms, so I was very surprised when the ultrasound showed that I did have a DVT. I am now being treated for that. I doubt I would have gone to the GP if it wasn’t for Abi’s intervention, so I’m very glad she followed up!"

So if you have any unusual calf (or thigh) pain do be sure to get it checked out by your G.P, even if you don't have all the classic DVT symptoms such as pain, swelling, redness and heat. In this case the patient did not have any cause of injury and on examination there was no obvious musculoskeletal damage which prompted Abi to refer to the G.P, despite the lack of other DVT symptoms.

The following links gives more details on DVT:

https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2017/01/how-spot-prevent-deep-vein-thrombosis

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/deep-vein-thrombosis-dvt/

30/09/2023

Lovely morning at The Tatton 5k/10k event organised by Runthrough Events. Abi and Stefan did sports massage (1 on each leg!) while Stuart, who will be joining the team shortly, also helped out giving injury advice. We saw lots of lovely runners who had all done really well. If you've done a run event this weekend and are feeling a bit sore, why not take advantage of our offer this October-£10 off any treatment session or sports massage with Stefan (Mon evening/Thursday morning) :-)

25/09/2023

A special offer to introduce our new Sports Rehabilitator