Salisbury and South Wilts Physiotherapy

12/11/2025

🌿 Acupuncture Awareness Week | 10–16 November 2025 🌿

This week, we’re highlighting the key benefits of acupuncture in physiotherapy; a powerful, evidence-based approach to help target pain, restore function, and empower recovery 🍃

Acupuncture can support patients with a range of pain conditions and rehabilitation, helping reduce discomfort, improve movement, and enhance overall wellbeing 🌱

👥 AACP Members:
You can log in to the Members Area of our website, where you will find a series of informative guides covering common conditions. These guides are perfect for in-clinic assistance or to refresh your knowledge of key points and treatment approaches.

Let’s continue raising awareness of how acupuncture complements physiotherapy, helping patients move better and live pain-free ✅

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10/11/2025

🥁 🎉 We are your top scoring clinic again! Hot off the press today! 🥳. Top rated of the top three… for 11 years running… well done to our amazingly talented clinic based and community based teams! Thank you ThreeBestRated.com. This means everything to us!

28/10/2025

FIREWORKS CAN CAUSE CATASTROPHIC HAND INJURIES!
It's that dreaded time of year for Meg - our Specialist Hand Therapist.

firework code and please be safe... and keep all your fingers. It's always wise to go to well organised displays where audience safety has been planned. Salisbury Racecourse is hosting a fabulous fireworks event this coming Saturday! 🎇

Fireworks are safe if you use them properly. If you are putting on a home display you should follow some simple steps to make sure that everyone has a good time without getting hurt.

🧨 ALWAYS FOLLOW THE FIREWORK CODE

​​- Stand well back Keep pets indoors
- ​Keep fireworks in a closed box
- Only buy fireworks with CE safety standards
- Light at arm's length, using a taper
​- Follow the instructions on each firework
- Never give sparklers to a child under five
- Don't drink alcohol if setting off fireworks
- Always supervise children around fireworks
- Light sparklers one at a time and wear gloves - even stick them in a carrot to hold.
- Never put fireworks in your pocket or throw them
- Never go near a firework that has been lit - even if it hasn't gone off it could still explode

🧨KEEP CHILDREN SAFE

​We want children to enjoy fireworks but they need to know that they can be dangerous if they are not used properly. Each year over half of all firework injuries are suffered by children. The Child Accident Prevention Trust and Direct.gov have more guidance on keeping kids safe.

​Did you know that sparklers get five times hotter than cooking oil? They should never be given to a child under five. Take care with Sparklers, always supervise children with sparklers, teach them to hold at arms length, Sparklers are not for under 5s. They will be labelled as such and it is your responsibility. Finally, have a container of water handy, big enough for the spent sparklers. Dump the sparkler in it as soon as goes out.

Fireworks are safe if you use them properly. If you are putting on a home display you should follow some simple steps to make sure that everyone has a good time without getting hurt.

🧨WHERE TO BUY FIREWORKS

Don't cut corners just to save a few pounds. Always buy fireworks from a reputable shop to make sure that they conform to CE safety standards.

28/10/2025

AMPUTEE REHABILITATION IN SALISBURY

Did you know that Emma Egan on our musculoskeletal team is a specialist in helping people after limb loss. As you can imagine - this type of work is highly specialist and is absolutely life changing. We are also very excited to be currently working in collaboration with Evolved Health Salisbury so that one of our very complex polytrauma clients can become much more independent which his ongoing rehabilitation journey.
Blesma, The Limbless Veterans

28/10/2025

Thank you SME awards! We are always very grateful to be nominated, judged and recognised as the most trusted physiotherapy practice 2025! Well done team!!

24/10/2025

Looking good Dan! 😍.

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We’re proud to support our local rugby community and delighted to sponsor Dan this season. Wishing him and the team a strong, successful run ahead – we’ll be cheering from the sidelines! 🏉👏

23/10/2025

What a wonderful review for Emma 😍. Recently received - we always welcome feedback. Thank you

22/10/2025

A Top-rated local physiotherapy clinic has launched free physiotherapy career consultations ahead of the October half-term.

Read more...

https://www.salisburyradio.co.uk/news/local-news/free-physiotherapy-career-consultations-on-offer-from-top-local-clinic/

17/10/2025

Wonderful! 👇

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🌐 Acupuncture Recognised in New NICE Neurorehabilitation Guideline (NG252)

The latest NICE Guideline NG252: Rehabilitation for Chronic Neurological Disorders (2025) recognises the importance of multimodal, non-pharmacological rehabilitation - creating new opportunities for physiotherapists using acupuncture.

The guideline highlights how effective rehabilitation depends on managing pain, fatigue, and emotional wellbeing; all areas where acupuncture has robust clinical relevance.
By helping to modulate pain, improve energy regulation, and support emotional balance, acupuncture enhances engagement and progress in rehabilitation programmes.

Key sections on:
🩹 Pain (1.13)
⚡ Fatigue (1.14)
💙 Emotional wellbeing (1.17)
🚻 Bladder & bowel function (1.8.16)

All recognise areas where acupuncture offers evidence-informed, cognition-safe support.

The AACP continues to champion acupuncture as a key modality within NICE-aligned neurorehabilitation, promoting:
✅ Better pain control
✅ Greater participation
✅ Improved quality of life

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16/10/2025

Interested in physiotherapy as a career? 📚🏫🏥🎓🩻🤔

We are regularly asked to help those wondering about a career in physiotherapy and attend careers events locally to help students navigate exciting but often daunting decisions ahead.

Hence - we have introduced the option of booking a free 20 minute videocall with our Clinical Director, Marie, for those considering a career in physiotherapy - whether you are choosing your GCSEs or are making A-level choices. Or are getting ready to apply for, or interview for an undergraduate course. You might be a mature student considering a career change...

Please note that Marie is our safeguarding lead and parental consent and background supervision is required for under 18's.

There are no silly questions... this is an opportunity to find our more from a Chartered Physiotherapist with 26 years experience in Physiotherapy... and this was not Marie's first career either!

Bookable online ideally - go to www.salisburysouthwiltsphysio.co.uk to explore and find out more.

A brief summary of Marie's career;

1989/90 x10 varied GCSEs
1992 x3 A-Levels Geography, French, Zoology
1992-96 BA Hons European Business with French - Loughborough University including a year in France studying Business Economics (2.1 Class)
1996-1999 Graduate Trainee Ford Motor Company Ltd - Human Resources
1999-2000 Physiotherapy Assistant East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust
2000-2003 BSc Hons Physiotherapy - University of Brighton (1st Class)
2003-2005 Rotational Physiotherapist East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and private practice as a specialist in Hand Therapy
2005-2010 Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapist - East Grinstead Queen Victoria NHS Trust and Private practice in MSK
2010-2012 Marie Roberts Physiotherapy - Tunbridge Wells
2012-present Clinic Director/Owner - Harnham Physiotherapy Clinic Ltd - Salisbury
2022-present Clinic Director/Owner - Salisbury & South Wilts Physiotherapy - Salisbury

30/09/2025

Very much looking forward to the upcoming launch this year of the Business Excellence Awards. We look forward to sharing what we will be up to this year in support of these prestigious awards that we have been delighted to receive in past years... Watch this space!

15/09/2025

🥹Huge apologies to those who have struggled to get appointments with us in recent weeks. Great news though 🎉 - we have added some extra hours and made plans for more availability in the coming months too - so do give us a ring on 01722 501010 or book straight in online via https://harnham-physiotherapy-clinic.au1.cliniko.com/bookings

Come see our five star multi award winning team!