by Joshua T. Wall | Exercise Physiology, Pain & Injury
Everything aches, you are tired before the day has started, and someone has told you that exercise would help. It is well-meant advice, but when moving hurts and a big effort can leave you flattened for days, it can feel like advice from someone who has never lived...
by Joshua T. Wall | Nervous System, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy, Shoulder
You reach up to hang the washing, paint a ceiling or fix your hair, and within a minute your arm feels heavy and your fingers start to tingle. You wake at night with a numb hand because you have slept with your arm above your head. The wrist has been tested for carpal...
by Joshua T. Wall | Lower Back, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy, Spine
You lower yourself into a chair and brace for it. You sit slightly to one side, lean forward over the desk, and dread the moment you have to stand up again, because that is when the sharp, deep ache at the very bottom of your spine bites hardest. Tailbone pain is one...
by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Pain & Injury, Physiotherapy, Sports Injuries
You have been on your knees all week, laying tiles, fitting a floor, weeding the garden or crawling after a toddler, and now there is a soft, squishy lump the size of an egg sitting right on top of your kneecap. It is not sore inside the knee, the knee still bends,...
by Joshua T. Wall | Foot, Foot & Ankle, Pain & Injury, Podiatry
You looked down at your child’s feet in the school-shoe shop and noticed there is no arch. Or a grandparent, a coach or a shoe fitter mentioned it, and now you are wondering whether your child needs orthotics, special shoes or a podiatrist. Here is the...
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...
