The last two years have seen a dramatic increase in operation costs, and while we endeavour to remain as accessible as possible we are a small, community business.
For more information on the prices please head to the 'PRICES' page on our website or click the link https://www.swanseahealthsolutions.co.uk/prices
Many thanks
Gareth & Team SHS
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OPENING HOURS Wednesday 23rd December – 10.00am-18.00pm |
| Thursday 24th December – 10.00am-14.00pm |
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year from us all at Swansea Health Solutions
As our team are physiotherapists and Osteopaths we are considered as key workers, this will hopefully reduce the pressure on the NHS and help those who need our care.
We will continue with our risk assessment and full PPE measurements will remain in place.
For more information on the lockdown please visit https://gov.wales/coronavirus
Musculoskeletal Diagnostic ultrasound, also called sonography, is an imaging method that uses high-frequency sound waves to create images of muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints throughout the body.
At Swansea Health Solutions we believe in getting to the root cause of your symptoms. The images can provide valuable information for diagnosing and treating a variety of diseases and conditions.
Conditions treated include:
· Tendinopathy (patellar, Achilles, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis)
· Muscle strains / tears
· Shoulder rotator cuff injury / bursitis
· Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / wrist pain
· Ligament injuries
Benefits of an ultrasound scan
• MSK Ultrasound provides an accurate diagnosis
to implement the most effective treatment plan for your recovery
• MSK Ultrasound is non-invasive.
• MKS Ultrasound is easy-to-use and less expensive than most
other imaging methods.
• Ultrasound imaging is extremely safe and does not use
radiation.
• Ultrasound scanning gives a clear picture of soft tissues
that do not show up well on x-ray images.
• Ultrasound provides real-time imaging
• Ultrasound is also an excellent alternative to MRI for
claustrophobic patients.
• Ultrasound images are captured in real time, they can show
the movement of a soft tissue structure such as a tendon, joint or an
extremity.
What are the limitations of Ultrasound Imaging of the
Musculoskeletal System?
Ultrasound has difficulty penetrating bone and, therefore, can only see the
outer surface of bony structures and not what lies within.For visualising
internal structure of bones or certain joints, other imaging modalities such as
MRI are typically used.
Gareth Davies, Clinic Director, has completed an ultrasound scanning mentorship program with Sports Medicine Ultrasound Group (SMUG) in conjunction with the Postgraduate Certificate in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound at Canterbury University.
Examples of MSK Cases performed in clinic:
All images are used with permission from patients
Following the
announcement by our governing bodies we can now re open the practice for face
to face consultations from Monday 22nd June.
As a practice, keeping hygiene levels exceptional throughout the day has always
been a priority. The last couple of weeks we have been working hard behind the
scenes to ensure all precautions and measures are in place. We have taken every
measure to ensure excellent hygiene and safety standards to enable us to safely
re-open.
New precautions we are
taking include:
⚪You’ll be contacted by
your practitioner 24 hours before your appointment to undertake a risk
assessment and be screened for any COVID-19 symptoms.
⚪Please
arrive on time for your appointment. If you arrive early please wait in your
car or outside. This will minimise any crossover. The waiting room is
temporary closed.
⚪To
minimise contact and maintain social distancing, only one patient will be
allowed in the treatment room at a time.
⚪All
practitioners will be wearing PPE in-line with government guidance
for the duration of your appointment. We advise patients to bring their own
face mask or face covering to wear. If you don’t have a face mask the clinic
can provide at a small charge of £1. If you arrive wearing gloves, these will
need to be disposed of upon entry to the clinic.
⚪Upon
entry to the clinic your practitioner will conduct a re-screen for COVID
symptoms and will ask you to use the hand sanitiser before and after your
treatment. We kindly request you use the toilet before attending your
appointment to reduce the amount of patient traffic.
⚪All
linen has been removed from clinic and couches. These have been replaced with
wipeable covers, disposable couch roll and disposable pillow cases. No towels
will be used in the clinic.
⚪All
surfaces in the clinic are disinfected between appointments. Additional time is
also added between appointments to aerate the treatment rooms and allow
appropriate donning and doffing of PPE.
⚪Only
some services have resumed. We currently do not offer sports massage / sports
therapy and corticosteroid injections.
⚪For
the near future we are running on a telephone service only, with no online
booking.
As an alternative to face to face appointments, we can offer a virtual consultation, if you or anyone within your household is in one of the high-risk categories, or If you or anyone in your household has been unwell in the last 2 weeks with COVID-19 symptoms and If you have not been following government social distancing guidelines.
We’ll update on any changes to the way we practice in the coming weeks and months and look forward to welcoming patients new and old, back to the clinic.
To book an appointment please telephone 01792 872900 or email gareth@swanseahealthsolutions.co.uk
The receptionist will take some personal details, then your practitioner will call you back, to arrange an appointment time convenient for you and explain the procedure of your appointment
Lauren
Herbert BSc (Hons) is a highly experienced Sports and Remedial Massage
Therapist and
Acupuncturist.
Lauren qualified from the London School of Sports Massage in 2014 after Previously Graduating in 2012 with a 2:1 in Equine Sports Science. Lauren is a Keen Show jumper with British Show Jumping and is passionate about the effects of posture on strength, functionality and pain.
Kinesio taping and strapping
Pregnancy massage
Lauren is currently to embark on a course in March 2020 to qualify in oncology massage to work with cancer patients and hopefully do some work for Maggies.
Rest is, in fact, rarely the best thing.
Neither, however, is continuing to plough through your training plan regardless.
The most common training injuries we see are tendon problems. These usually present themselves at the knee, hip, ankle or shoulder. Our tendons are the structures that link the ends of our muscles to our bones. They are firm but elastic structures which are integral to transferring the forces from our muscles to bones so that movement can occur at a joint.
Tendons can give rise to pain for several different physiological reasons. These can include tendon ‘reactivity’ which is a transient inflammation or tendinosis which is due to an overall disorganisation of the tendon tissue. However, whatever the underlying mechanism, tendon pain is almost always as a result of subjecting the tendon to a load which your body cannot withstand.
When we discuss a ‘load’, we are referring to an activity of some
kind like running, cycling, weight lifting etc.
If your tendon’s capacity to withstand the load is lower than load placed upon it,
the tendon will react by becoming painful.
To give an example, let’s pretend you’ve never run for anything other than to catch the bus before. One day, you decide to run a marathon with no training. The next day, you would be incredibly sore. This is because your body has not been primed to perform this activity; your capacity to run would be lower than that of a marathon. It would be the tendons which would be the sorest structures.
Avoiding this soreness, in reality, is all about a structured, gradually increasing training plan. It can take a long while to lay the strong foundations needed for intense physical activity and this is often where our patients get it wrong.
An increase in training intensity, frequency or duration can easily lead to tendon pain. It may be as much as 3 or 4 weeks after the increase in the training load that the pain starts to make itself apparent too so unpicking the moment where things started to go wrong is a key part of your initial assessment with a therapist.
Some other factors can have an affect too such as a change to training surface (e.g. running on sand instead of your usual concrete), a change in footwear (those flashy new trainers!) or recovery times (not resting for appropriate periods between training sessions) can all also affect your tendons.
There are plenty of things which your therapist can do to help with tendon pain but the solution lies with these three points:
- A discussion to address the likely causes of pain.
- A (temporary) modification of your training load.
- A strength and conditioning retraining routine to improve your capacity to perform your training program.
A good therapist will be able to help with all of these things and keep you training at your best permanently.
The last two years have seen a dramatic increase in operation costs, and while we endeavour to remain as accessible as possible we are a small, community business.
For more information on the prices please head to the 'PRICES' page on our website or click the link https://www.swanseahealthsolutions.co.uk/prices
Many thanks
Gareth & Team SHS
|
OPENING HOURS Wednesday 23rd December – 10.00am-18.00pm |
| Thursday 24th December – 10.00am-14.00pm |
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year from us all at Swansea Health Solutions
As our team are physiotherapists and Osteopaths we are considered as key workers, this will hopefully reduce the pressure on the NHS and help those who need our care.
We will continue with our risk assessment and full PPE measurements will remain in place.
For more information on the lockdown please visit https://gov.wales/coronavirus
