Treburley Physio

02/09/2025

🪡 Acupuncture: bent needles 🪡

Clients are often intrigued about the possibility of a bent needle, as mentioned on our acupuncture consent forms. This occurs rarely (0.1% of treatments or 1 in 1000), usually due to muscle spasm during dry needling (needling of trigger points in muscles), resulting normally in a single bend in the needle. It is also relative to factors such as how fine the needle is, the size of the muscle you’re needling etc.

This week in clinic we saw a double bend in a single needle- which occurs even less frequently. It simply means that more than one strong muscle spasm has occurred during needling of the trigger point. Our client was well muscled with a particularly strong trigger point, and the needle was easily removed after treatment.

23/12/2024

A huge thank you to all our clients for another year of business and your company….. rarely feels like work with you lovely lot, and for that I shall be forever grateful ✌🏼

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas 🎄

16/11/2024

**NOTICE**

The road leading from the main road at The Springer Spaniel Pub up to the clinic is closed, and will be for the foreseeable. Unfortunately neither the pub nor anyone else was given any advanced warning. There is a clearly signed diversion in place (shown on the map below- sorry, there’s a reason we are physios and not artists 😆) from the turning next to Tre Pol Pen but it is a rather long one! So allow an extra 10 minutes to reach us from the main road.

We imagine will be the case for the next few weeks at least, possibly months.

29/09/2024

27/09/2024

This week Still Bill and I went to speak to some school children about the human body 🩻

He doesn’t get out much and was scared to death of my driving but we had a ball driving through town 🤪 and the children impressed us with their knowledge 🦴

23/09/2024

Sometimes people walk through the door who you just know need more than conservative physiotherapy. Objective examination confirmed my suspicions and my lovely client was duly referred on to a consultant for surgery and to Esther Fox for subsequent rehabilitation with clinical Pilates. Esther was actually one of my lecturers at university, way back when! And has been a supportive sounding board whenever I have needed her advice since.

Esther and Mr Sharma have turned out to be the A-team for this lady… thank you for looking after her.

13/09/2024

Sorry for the radio silence on our page over the last few weeks… truth be told you’ve all been keeping us busier than we’ve ever been! So at 9pm on a Friday, this is my best offering 👀

I’ve seen this look several times recently, and (having undergone fairly major orthopaedic surgery myself) I can genuinely say I do empathise. This week I was described as being much like the exercises I dish out… “savage but effective” 😆 I’ll take that (my friends wouldn’t disagree with you!) as long as we keep hitting those post op targets 💪🏼

Happy Friday all, have a good weekend before we hit the ground running again on Monday 🏃‍♀️

28/08/2024

Card payments cost us over £1000 per year…. a lot of money for a small business. So we have made the decision to stop taking card payments in the near future. We realise this may be slightly inconvenient at least initially for our clients, but hope that once you have us set up on your online banking, it should be relatively easy.

We are having to implement a small price increase for our longer new patient/new condition initial assessment slots and for shockwave (due to price increases on the parts- which have to be replaced frequently) which have been advertised on our website for the past few weeks. By stopping card payments we are able to keep our follow up session prices the same, therefore minimising the impact on our regular existing clients. We realise these are tough times for all, and hope that these changes mean that everyone’s money, both ours and yours, goes as far as it should.

As always, if you have any concerns about payment please get in touch with us directly 🤗

12/08/2024

How cute are this pair?!

Congratulations to 7 year old Phoebe and her pony Dotty, for winning the Treburley Physio annual trophy at St Dominic Show this weekend 🏆

Our family business started out life in St Dominic over 40 years ago, and we have sponsored a class at the local show ever since. Well done Phoebe!

22/07/2024

We may ask you some strange sounding questions which don’t always seem relevant. This is to rule out red flags. In the case of spinal issues, we have a number of questions we ask and signs we look for to build a picture of what may be going on inside your spine. Serious pathology could include anything from fractures to tumours, and anything else that can cause central spinal cord compression, for example disc herniation.

If we suspect serious spinal pathology, you will be sent to A&E immediately with a clinic letter warning the department that your situation is a true medical emergency, and detailing why. Luckily we don’t see this in the general population very often, but when we do it is vitally important that no one tries to treat your spine manually (risking further damage), and that we obtain imaging (MRI) of your spine and spinal cord ASAP so that surgical decompression (if required) can be done urgently. Your spinal cord does not like being compressed and can result in irreversible life changing problems if left untreated. Quick action can quite literally save your life as you know it.

If you have any spinal problems, please make sure you see a suitable medical professional who is qualified to diagnose and screen for serious spinal pathology. Never be afraid to ask for a second opinion if you’re concerned there’s more going on than meets the eye- a good professional will never mind you doing this.

18/07/2024

This week I had some great feedback from a client, demonstrating perfectly the importance of a thorough initial assessment (see previous post on our page). This client had been suffering with leg pain for several months, convinced it was a muscular injury in the lower leg. Careful questioning and assessment indicated sciatic pain. Sciatica is an umbrella term, as clinicians we must also determine what is causing the sciatica in order to treat the root cause, not just the symptoms. Pain was reduced significantly in just the first 10 minutes of treatment…. and I didn’t even touch their leg 🤗

Book an appointment with an HCPC registered physiotherapist today to see someone qualified to diagnose your condition and formulate an optimal treatment plan.