by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Osteoarthritis, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy
Pain on the inner side of the knee. Worse going up stairs, worse on hills, sore at night when your knees touch in bed. You may even have had a scan that came back reassuring, and yet the knee still complains every single day. Here is a possibility that surprises many...
by Joshua T. Wall | Exercise Physiology, Pain & Injury, Running, Sports Medicine
You trained on Saturday. Sunday you felt a bit tight. Monday you needed the handrail to get down the stairs and lowering yourself onto a chair became a controlled fall. Why is day two worse than day one, and did you do something wrong? Welcome to DOMS, delayed onset...
by Joshua T. Wall | Hip, Nervous System, Physiotherapy, Thigh
A burning, tingling or oddly numb patch on the outside of your thigh. No back pain, no hip pain when you walk, nothing wrong with the knee. Just a hand-sized area of skin that feels wrong, and a quiet worry that it might be your circulation, or something worse. This...
by Joshua T. Wall | Adolescent Health, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
It is 9pm and your child is awake again, holding their legs and asking you to rub them. By breakfast they are sprinting around the kitchen as if nothing happened. If that pattern sounds familiar, you are likely looking at growing pains, and the pattern itself is the...
by Joshua T. Wall | Foot, Foot & Ankle, Pain & Injury, Podiatry
A red, swollen, throbbing toe that flares up, settles just enough to ignore, then flares again. If that cycle sounds familiar, you are dealing with one of the most common foot problems there is, and one of the most commonly mismanaged. An ingrown toenail happens when...
