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...
by Joshua T. Wall | Foot, Musculoskeletal, Podiatry, Sports Medicine
Rolled your ankle months ago, and the ankle itself is fine, but the outside of your foot still aches every time you push off? Or you are a dancer or a runner with stubborn pain along the outer edge of your midfoot that nobody has been able to name? There is a commonly...
by Joshua T. Wall | Adolescent Health, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Spine
You notice it at the pool, or when a school shirt keeps sitting crooked. One shoulder looks higher than the other, or one shoulder blade sticks out more. For a lot of parents, that is the first hint of scoliosis, and the first reaction is worry. Here is the calm...
by Joshua T. Wall | Foot, Musculoskeletal, Osteoarthritis, Podiatry
Does your big toe hurt when you push off, feel stiff first thing in the morning, or ache on top of the joint in tight shoes? Most people assume they are developing a bunion, or that it must be gout. Often it is neither. The most common cause of a stiff, sore big toe...
by Joshua T. Wall | Elbow, Musculoskeletal, Nervous System, Physiotherapy
Little finger going numb? Waking with a dead hand, or losing feeling in your ring and little finger when you are on the phone or driving? Most people reach straight for the same explanation, carpal tunnel syndrome. It is the one everybody has heard of. Here is the...
by Joshua T. Wall | Exercise Physiology, Healthy Ageing, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy
You are asleep, and then you are suddenly upright, gripping your calf while it locks solid. Night leg cramps are one of those things almost nobody mentions to a health professional, partly because they pass in a minute or two and partly because most people assume...
