by Joshua T. Wall | Physiotherapy
The ball came in fast, the finger was pointing straight at it, and now the very tip of that finger is drooping. You can push it straight with your other hand, but the moment you let go, it drops again. It may not even hurt much. That is mallet finger, and it is one of...
by Joshua T. Wall | Exercise Physiology, Healthy Ageing
“You need to be more active.” If you have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, or told you are heading that way, you have almost certainly heard that sentence. What you probably have not been given is the dose: how many minutes, what kind, how hard, and...
by Joshua T. Wall | Healthy Ageing, Physiotherapy
You set off on your usual walk and, a few hundred metres in, your legs start to feel heavy. Then achy, or numb, or weak, until you have to stop. You sit on a bench for a couple of minutes and it fades, and off you go again. And you have noticed something odd: at the...
by Joshua T. Wall | Podiatry
Burning under the arch. Pins and needles across the sole. A numb patch under the toes that seems to arrive after a long day on your feet and then keeps you awake at night. You may have been told it is plantar fasciitis, done the stretches and the rolling, and found...
by Joshua T. Wall | Physiotherapy
It is a sharp, sometimes burning pain right at the front of the knee, just below the kneecap. It bites when you stand with your knees locked, when you walk downhill or down stairs, when you sit with your leg stretched out, or at the very end of straightening your leg....
