EFFECTIVE FOOT & ANKLE PAIN MANAGEMENT
Understanding the issue
OUR FIRST ACTION: REMOVE YOUR PAIN
We often hear this story from our clients, when the same problem keeps returning. Generally they have tried different options for treatment however the end result has been the same.
Body Logic Health, working with the latest evidence based treatment information, have put together a complete solution for hip pain treatment. Our full treatment pathway will take you beyond the ‘quick fix’ and through the necessary phases to make sure you return to the activities your enjoy.
Important First Step
Your pain must be addressed first, it is important to be able to get on with your daily activities, and there are huge benefits to returning to normal activities. Your movement specialist will complete a full assessment to understand the best way forwards for your condition.
Your movement specialist will then explain your full diagnosis and cause of your current symptoms, bringing the whole picture together for you. They will outline your first steps of your treatment pathway and timelines involved. It is also a great chance for you to ask any questions about your injury or recovery.
The first step to ‘remove your pain’
You will then begin the best treatment to help your recovery, and our highly skilled physiotherapists will give you the best outline of the time frame for this first step.
N.B.
If you have made it this far previously and find yourself in treatment again then there are a few key factors that you need to be aware of.
CAUSATIVE FACTORS
It is crucial to recognize that you should have the ability to perform a variety of movement patterns when carrying out a task, such as picking up a pencil from the floor. However, when you lose the ability to use different movements, it can lead to repetitive strain on your soft tissues, including muscles, ligaments, tendons, and joints. This is when issues are more likely to occur and cause problems.
The key to identifying these movement faults lies in linking the dysfunction with the symptoms (Comerford & Mottram 2001).
Recurrence poses a significant challenge. If you have only addressed the initial phase of pain management in the past, it is likely that you haven’t made any changes to how you move to prevent strain and the return of problems in the future.
It is essential to establish lifelong habits and make necessary changes to prevent recurring issues.
BUILD A BETTER YOU
Building your foundation is the key to step 2, to complete this phase we need to identify the underlying movement faults that you have. You have a couple of options here depending on your specific requirements and end goals:
- Movement Screen– a brilliant way to understand how you move affects your tissue loading and can be easily related back to many of the reasons behind the injuries we see in clinic each and every day.
- Pilates Discovery Session– can be an exciting option looking forward at your long term movement health, the the screen helping identify issues in your movement that cna then be addressed through targeted Pilates sessions.
- Running Video Analysis– if running is your thing then this a great way to change the way you move to prevent future issues.
- Walking / Rehabilitation Evaluation– your foot & ankle are crucial to walking and understanding how you move and load this area can open the pathway options to improve patterning and create long term health
You will have the ‘how you move’ identified and explained in full detail to you, and this will allow your movement specialist to plan the next phase of your recovery.
The main goal in building your foundation is to not only identify the underlying causative factors but explain why they are there so you can make lifestyle changes to help avoid recurrence and begin the movement retraining phase to adapt how you move to change excessive loading and tissue stress building up again in the body which can affect your foot & ankle injury.
ELEVATE YOUR PERFORMANCE
The hardest part for everyone is to stay motivated once you are feeling great and moving well again. We all know life gets in the way of looking after you. If you feel you need further help to achieve your performance goals or to maintain your lifestyle, there are ways we can help you.
If you have completed the first two steps, you are now ready to achieve lifestyle and performance goals, step 3. At this phase our great sports rehabilitation team will often take over your management.
There are plenty of options for you depending on your specific goals, so please discuss your options with your physiotherapist. This step will complete your ankle & foot pain solution, and will involve individually designed programmes to complement your home exercise programme.
You can see the whole pain to performance ankle & foot solution. This will help you create movement health and enjoy the life you want to live.
Start your journey today and enjoy your life again.
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