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Nik_Physio

@Nik_Physio

Specialist MSK Physiotherapist with a special interest in Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine. All Views my own

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Vitamin D - A Key Player in Tendon Health A recent review published in the Journal of Basic Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology reveals the crucial role of vitamin D in tendon health and healing. 🔋 Mechanism of Action: -Regulates collagen synthesis -Reduces inflammation…

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🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Your posture is NOT killing you! At worst it can irritate some sensitive tissues! But that can be both the left and right pictured postures! Please do NOT listen to quacks literally trying to sell you “snake oil” 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I didn't realize how terrible my posture was until an MRI showed it was slowly killing my brain. A ticking time bomb of a problem that I've now dramatically improved with these five habits. 🧵

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⚽💪 ACL Prehabilitation Improves Postoperative Strength and Motion and Return to Sport in Athletes

⚽💪 ACL Prehabilitation Improves Postoperative Strength and Motion and Return to Sport in Athletes ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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If you are injecting patellofemoral OA, should we consider needle placement to improve effectiveness? Yes If you're using a highly viscous substance HA or Arthrosamid. The neat study examined the distribution of viscous HA after different approaches: 1/ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Dear @hubermanlab, Back pain is not caused by weakness. Back pain is not caused by posture. Back pain is complex & not so simple. Your recent podcast is misleading, potentially harmful for many listeners, and disregards the overwhelming evidence on managing back pain. You need…


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🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥 🚨 ✅ Early OKC doesn’t increase graft laxity vs CKC ✅ Early OKC doesn’t increase graft laxity between 1 & 6 months ✅ Early OKC improves Quad strength @ 3 months 📚 sciencedirect.com/science/articl@KorakakisV @Hewett1Tim @AJM_Rambaud @fysiotek @PTiSJournal

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The ‘DO I NEED AN X-RAY OR SCAN’ infographic is now available - uhcw.nhs.uk/self-care/ Inappropriate MSK imaging is a major issue🌎 This resource maybe useful ✔️To supplement MSK consults ✔️For waiting rooms ✔️For training clinicians and students PDFs available via DM


This is how it really looks!

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SCRAPING MASSAGE (AKA instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization, or IASTM) has been badly over-hyped for as long it has existed. There is no compelling positive evidence from clinical trials of this kind of massage, and there are some damning results.

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Ortho - non weight bearing for 6 weeks Elevation over pillow Avoid water contact with plaster If swelling in toes, loss of sensation, change in skin colour, severe pain -> immediately contact us Patient 👇


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Most people think of patient facing roles being only Doctors and Nurses. However, there’s a whole other group called Allied Health Professionals (AHPs). There’s 14 groups that work side by side with us to provide the best care for patients.

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#BJSM Blog: Meniscal tears ⚡️ What are the treatment options? 🧐 We break down a recent study by Damsted et al. into bitesize chunks of knowledge 💪 READ HERE ➡️ bit.ly/3IMwQRj

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Last league game of the season for @OldFinchleianCC Hard luck to the 2nd XI who nearly won a close game. Well done to all players who've played in the games this season.

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Meniscectomy vs. Physio for Meniscal Tears. A thread 🧵 👉🏻 This thread is based on a research paper by Van der Graaff et al (2022). Reviewed by @trpollen

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🔗#OpenAccess 🦵📽️ Mechanisms of ACL injuries in men’s football: A systematic video analysis. 🔗👉 bit.ly/3Gwjmag ✍️ @DrRaoufRekik @RoaldBahr Flavio Cruz, @paulread1010 @RodWhiteley @PdHooghe @DrTabben & @ProfChamari


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💪NEW Tennis Elbow Guidance… 💉🚫Do not offer steroid injection Interesting eccentric strengthening advised 🤔 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Great work @bessconference @myelbowdoc 🙌🏻

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Great work 👍👍👍 ‘Good’ posture doesn’t prevent back pain, and ‘bad’ posture doesn’t cause it | Peter O'Sullivan, Leon Straker and Nic Saraceni for The Conversation theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…


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Rehab clinicians - Please don't get over enthusiastic give patients rehab programmes stuffed with loads of exercises - they just can't manage them with busy schedules & typically confess to me they lose motivation & stop doing them. It might look like the best rehab plan in…


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Two interesting large-sample longtitudinal studies were recently published. They show that chronic pain tends to “spread” and is linked to stress and high BMI. This exemplifies our concept of an activated nociceptive apparatus which will be discussed in our upcoming accepted…

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Foam rolling the ITB ......It takes over 2000 pounds of force to deform it by 1% and even if we could do this, it would return to its original state once we removed the force 🙄


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