The year 2020 has seen some very different changes around the world due to COVID-19. Included in this is the requirement to work from home, and as a result, Allied Health Professionals have seen a large shift in patient injury complaints, whereby neck and lower back pain is becoming a much prevalent trend.
Ankle sprains are one of the most common sporting and musculoskeletal injuries that results in damage to the ligaments of the ankle.
The most common ‘mechanism of injury’, or how the injury occurs, is when the ankle rolls out where the sole of the foot ends up facing inwards. This is known as a lateral ankle sprain, where injury is to the ligaments on the outside of the ankle as pictured below.
Neck pain is very common, with 60% of people experiencing some form of neck pain in their lifetime and one of the main reasons that people seek physiotherapy treatment
Similar to back pain, the good news is that most forms of neck pain are caused by musculoskeletal conditions, which respond very well to physiotherapy treatment and exercise.
Shoulder pain and discomfort is very common. Your shoulder is a very mobile joint, just think about how much it can move - up, across, behind and twist!
This essentially means your shoulder is quite unstable, this is due to the low contact area of the socket (formed by your scapular) and the ball of your arm bone (humerus).
Golfer’s Elbow
Do you have pain on the inner side of your elbow? Then you may have Golfer’s Elbow.
Golfers elbow, also known as medial epicondylitis, is a type of tendinopathy that causes pain in the tendons of the muscles responsible for flexing the wrist. Pain is usually located on the inner side of the elbow. Golfer’s elbow is mostly an overuse injury where overload of the tendons has resulted in injury.
