Progressive Physical Therapy - PPT

03/09/2019

Looking forward to an an evening learning all things golf ⛳️ S&C 💪🏼 . &c

19/08/2019

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9 things we wish everyone knew about pain!!

04/08/2019

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💥CRUMBLING SPINE💥
This is without a doubt my most hated and loathed term used to describe spinal osteoporosis or general age related spinal changes
Unfortunately I still see many patients who have been given this horrendous and harmful explanation for why they have back pain, who are now s**t scarred to move for fear of crumbling away further!
I find a nice way to reassure and reduce this fear patients have after being told this awful news, as well as help them understand how exercise can help, is to explain how spines are surrounded and supported by many robust and strong muscles.
By exercising and strengthening these muscles it can help support their spine and protect it from further damage.
Its still a challenge to get patients to trust their spine once someone has told them its as fragile as a digestive biscuit, but with some reassurance, encouragement and exercise it can be done.
Also research has shown that resistance exercise is very bloody effective at reducing pain, improving function, and general quality of life after osteoporotic spinal fractures.
As always... you can’t go wrong getting strong!
I shall be doing more ‘my doctor says I have...’ soon so stay tuned for more! .

04/07/2019

Client turned up with this bad boy around his neck today. All the hard work paid off. Unbelievable achievement from the Irish wheelchair basketball team 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 ☘️ 🏀

27/06/2019

Donegal 😍 @ Ards Friary

26/05/2019

Another great day. Worked through sport specific injuries, fractures, concussion, cycling accidents, dislocated shoulders and cardiac arrest.

25/05/2019

Day 2 sports Trauma completed.

Lots of practical work today....CPR, C-Spine stabilisation, Helmet removal and applying a neck brace

24/05/2019

Time to kill

24/05/2019

What a beautiful morning to be heading off to Portlaoise for a 3 day Sports Trauma course.

21/04/2019

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE! 🤔 THINK! Why does this invidiual want to Run/Swim/Walk or whatever it may be! Perhaps the obvious reason is exercise but dig deeper! Maybe it's for their mental health, social, maybe it gives them a break from other parts of their so before you tell them to STOP. Think 🤔by 👏🏻👏🏻

12/04/2019

Out in today collecting for . Please get out and support this great cause.

26/03/2019

17/03/2019

☘️ Happy St Patrick’s ☘️

01/03/2019

Another great nugget of information from

14/01/2019

Sport specific rehab. A graded approach back to the things we love doing after acute lower back pain

29/11/2018

A big part of what we do here is try help people understand and make sense of the pain. Pain is complex and individual and can be influenced by a multitude of factors. The more we understand the more possibilities there are for us to return to the things we love doing.

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23/11/2018

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TWO-THIRDS OF HERNIATED DISCS HEAL ON THEIR OWN! - RESULTS FROM A RECENT META-ANALYSIS

Too many people think that once you have a disc herniation (or disc bulge), that you’ve got it for life 😥

Well, a recent meta-analysis (Zhong et al., 2017) has shown that 2/3 of disc bulges spontaneously heal on their own! Many of them within a few months too. 😱

Conclusion from the paper: “Because the overall incidence of disc de-herniation is now 66.66% according to our results, conservative treatment may become the first choice of treatment for LDH.” Even though discs sometimes herniate, this does NOT mean they 'slip'. Jarod Hall has written a great blog on what actually does happen and how to deal with it.

Read it? Link in bio 🔗