Pre-habilitation prior to surgery is key in ensuring the body is properly prepared and ready for recovery. If you’re due to have surgery in the near future, be it a total knee/hip/shoulder replacement, ligament repair, arthroscopy or spinal surgery, we cannot stress strongly enough the importance...
Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a condition that affects 1 in 3 women who have had children (POGP, 2020). RCOG, 2022 state it affects 1 in 10 women over the age of 50 years. It can affect women who haven’t given birth also. It often...
The Benefits of Reformer Pilates by Amy Holtby. Reformer pilates is pilates on a reformer machine. Reformer pilates offers a much bigger range of exercises you can do compared to those practiced in a regular pilates class. Created by Joseph Pilates, the reformer pilates machine gets you...
This is a question we are frequently asked and to most people they are much the same. All three professions deal with musculoskeletal problems (muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones and joints) and their training is by and large to degree level. There are similarities between the...
There is much pressure in the media for postnatal women to get their figures back and return to previous sports. It is important however, that women take the time to let their bodies heal and prepare properly before resuming or indeed starting new sports such...
Halo's Lucy Bell talks about her experience of working as a Physiotherapist with the GB Equestrian team at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The question I often get asked is what I actually do whilst I’m away on a trip with a sports team. The most important thing...
Senior Physiotherapist at Halo, Nicki Bradshaw talks about her experience of joining the national effort to vaccinate the general public against Covid-19 When I first saw the NHS appealing for health care professionals to sign up as Covid vaccinators back in November, I immediately registered my...
During the current dark (in more ways that one!) winter days it is not surprising that we all want to snuggle down at home. We all know that physical activity of any description is beneficial to our hearts, lungs, bones, muscles and joints. However, physical...
Senior Physiotherapist at Halo, Jill Drew talks about how she worked as a Clinical Contact Caseworker during lockdown, liaising over the phone with Covid-19 patients, understanding their situation and assisting in the tracing and tracking of anyone they had been in contact with. When lockdown started...
Senior Physiotherapist at Halo, Nicki Bradshaw recently attended a Pelvic Health course for Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists exploring the most recent research around Women’s Pelvic Health issues, including Pelvic Girdle Pain, Pelvic floor Dysfunction, Diastasis Recti and return to sport postnatally. Here Nicki discusses Diastasis Recti Diastasis Recti, otherwise...
