Musculoskeletal Side Effects from Immunotherapy
Cancer immunotherapy, commonly using immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), has revolutionized the treatment of previously hard to treat metastatic (stage four) cancer. The main difference to other treatments such as chemotherapy is that it boosts the immune system rather than impairs it. Chemotherapy tries to kill cancer cells by using medications that are toxic to cancer [...]
Stress, Anxiety and its Effect on Pain, Muscles and digestion
Stress can cause muscle tension and conditions related to muscle tension such as temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD), tension headaches and migraines, low back pain, neck and shoulder pain and dizziness. Stress creates muscle tension by activating your sympathetic nervous system and releasing adrenaline making you ready for a fight or flight response. In most cases, [...]
Acupuncture/dry needling helps low back pain, whiplash, neck pain, and arthritic joint pain.
Some national guidelines do recommend acupuncture/dry needling for some conditions including low back pain, while others do not. However, when you review the evidence, there is a lot of evidence that acupuncture and dry needling is helpful in a large range of musculoskeletal conditions including low back pain, neck pain and post whiplash injuries and [...]
How to choose a pillow if you have neck pain
It is important to remember when choosing a pillow for your neck pain that there is a lot of variability in neck thickness, shoulder width and neck length. This means that there is no one pillow that will suit everyone. The type of pillow that may be beneficial for you is partly determined by the [...]
Ankylosing Spondylitis, Axial spondyloarthritis and related conditions.
Axial spondyloarthritis is a classification that includes Ankylosing Spondylitis but also includes a similar condition that does not have the charachteristic bamboo spine presentation on X-Ray imaging. The bamboo like image is from one vertera forming bony bridges (fusing) with its adjacent vertebra along the ligaments between vertebrae, especially the outer fibres of the disc [...]
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to investigate your pain and dysfunctions before your physiotherapy appointment
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we approach health and wellbeing. Here’s how you can use AI to better understand and manage your health—especially for issues like muscle, joint, or movement problems. AI can help you understand your symptoms. Recent studies show that AI can be as accurate as a health professional for certain [...]