Transcend Physiotherapy Clinic

25/12/2022

Happy Christmas everyone!!! Time for some R & R with my family- see you in the new year 🎅🎄

16/11/2022

Alan Moffatt MSc BSc(Hons) Physiotherapy. 22 years of Physiotherapy experience and registered with HCP and CSP

03/05/2019

Call 07756578064 to book your place

01/05/2019

24/01/2018

Running DOES NOT promote joint arthritis- quite possibly the opposite. Looks like it’s time to dust off those runners!

13/11/2017

Acupuncture shown to have benefits for treatment of some chronic pain
https://discover.dc.nihr.ac.uk/portal/article/4000746/acupuncture-shown-to-have-benefits-for-treatment-of-some-chronic-pain #.WgoZ5OJEV88.twitter

Acupuncture is not a placebo for treatment of chronic pain. This NIHR-funded systematic review shows that acupuncture is better than usual care and sham acupuncture for pain from musculoskeletal conditions, knee osteoarthritis and chronic headache. This NIHR review was large with over 140 trials ove...

27/07/2017

SIMPLE tips to increase exercise adherence in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions.

Nonadherence to treatment remains high among patients with musculoskeletal conditions with negative impact on the treatment outcomes.

14/07/2017

Just had my first PT session with Jonny Urszuly Calisthenics - so hard but loved it! Just showed me how I've been totally going through the motions with my training for years and never really pushing myself! My legs were like jelly after the first 5 minutes - Alan Moffatt you would love it, you need to come with me next week!

10/07/2017

Need a reason to exercise? Look below and make sure you click to see the whole picture. It compares a 74-year old sedentary man with a 70-year old triathlete. The difference in fat and muscle tissue is extreme.

06/07/2017

01/07/2017

Dry needling adds NO VALUE to physiotherapy outcomes for patellofemoral pain.

Patellar taping however has significant benefits at four weeks, is not a noxious stimuli and can be self administered. Needling cannot.

Full study:
http://www.jospt.org/doi/abs/10.2519/jospt.2017.7389?code=jospt-site

23/06/2017

The diagnosis and treatment of patellar tendinopathy (jumper's knee)

09/06/2017

Should exercises be painful in the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain?

This systematic review from 2017 found that protocols using exercises into pain for chronic musculoskeletal pain offer a small but significant benefit over pain-free exercises in the short term.

Healthcare practitioners are often hesitant and afraid to encourage patients to continue with exercise into pain when they are treating persistent musculoskeletal pain.

This systematic review shows that there does not appear to be a scientific basis for this fear in relation to outcome measures of pain, and also potentially function and disability. Don’t necessarily fear short-term flare ups. Carry on. What is the rationale behind this? Exercising into pain addresses psychological factors such as fear avoidance, kinesiophobia and catastrophising, and is set within a framework of ‘hurt not equalling harm’.

Other important findings from this study:

• Protocols using exercises into pain for chronic musculoskeletal pain offer a small but significant benefit over pain-free exercises in the short term.
• Adults with musculoskeletal pain can achieve significant improvements in patient-reported outcomes with varying degrees of pain experiences and post recovery time with therapeutic exercise.
• Pain during therapeutic exercise for chronic musculoskeletal pain need not be a barrier to successful outcomes.
• Protocols using exercises into pain typically have higher loads and dose of exercise.

Full study:
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2017/06/07/bjsports-2016-097383