Treatments to Stay Active, Fit & Injury Free

This is a science and evidence-based practice, which treats injury and disease by external physical methods of reducing pain and restoring normal body movement and function. Treatment includes lots of different types of prescribed therapeutic exercises and movement techniques, which would be based on clinically testing every condition accurately.

Also referred to as Manual/Manipulative physiotherapy or neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy. It involves even further and more precise clinical examination, to find out why body areas are problematic and to return to full function or to stop further deterioration. Treatment can include the correction of spinal misalignments using carefully selected and localised joint and soft tissue manipulation techniques.

Spine & Peripheral Joints

Manipulative therapies are mostly available for acute low back, middle back, and neck pain, as well as for other conditions. It requires skilled and qualified professionals to perform them safely and effectively. The decision to manipulate will be based on a full clinical examination to ensure patients' full health and safety. 

Joint & Soft Tissue Manipulation

These methods would address muscles, ligaments, and neural tissue along and across the body and would be very effective in managing a large number of sports injuries and physical conditions.   

At GK Physiotherapy exercise will be prescribed and used based on comprehensive and accurate examination of the direct and underlying causes of pain and other symptoms. Every excise will have a reason and it's mechanism will be tested and explained in detail.

Electro Magnetic Transduction Therapy (EMTT) is the more advanced technology used here in GK Physiotherapy, which influences the overall recovery of the condition by enhancing the release of growth factor to the area.

The treatment is painless and has no side effects at all. The outcome of reduction of pain often occurs immediately for...

• Back problems - Low back pain, trapped nerve, slipped/prolapsed disc, misalignments, and sciatica.
• Neck pain - tension, headaches, trapped nerves, migraines, and the effects of stress.
• Joint care - Joint pain & stiffness, aches, reduced range of motion, arthritis.
• Muscle and ligament sprains and strains.
• Sport and movement injuries (all levels).
• Recovery from surgery.
• Rehabilitation (building up strength, mobility & return to full function).
• Posture problems.
• Whiplash injuries.

In each case, a fully qualified practitioner will undertake a comprehensive assessment leading to an accurate diagnosis. Following the discussion, an appropriate treatment plan will be agreed upon to effectively manage/resolve your condition. Magnetolith EMTT® (Extracorporeal Magnetotranduction Therapy) uses high-energy magnetic fields for regeneration and rehabilitation at a cellular level. The treatment involved a direct anti-inflammatory response, reducing both pain and inflammation in affected areas of the body. EMTT helps patients with acute pain presentation, irritable flare-ups, neuropathic pain, diffused pain, and degenerative pathologies such as osteoarthritis. EMTT® is highly tolerated, even with the most painful conditions such as rheumatic patients.

Vascular Erectile Dysfunction (ED)

Extracorporeal Focused Shock Wave Therapy has been used for the treatment of vascular erectile dysfunction since 2010. During treatment, low-intensity shock waves are applied to different areas of the penis. This stimulates the creation of new blood vessels in the cavernous bodies and improves blood flow in the penis (and the ability to achieve an erection).

Specific contraindications will always be discussed professionally and listed before applying any of the above treatment methods.  

Mobilisation and stretching techniques are often part of most physiotherapy treatment plans.

They are aimed to improve various movement limitations that were found during the initial examination.

Mobilisations of the joints are lower grades of the previously presented manipulation techniques and are slower and more controlled. Stretches would aim to increase muscles or nerve range of motion throughout the body.

Both may be prescribed specifically as a guided self-management technique for the clients to practice alone and in between sessions.

Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) is a professionally directed and guided stretching or strengthening technique that can improve range of motion, strength, and reduced functional capacity.
Many trained physiotherapists use PNF to help people regain their range of motion after injury, stroke, restricted periods following severe injuries, or post-surgery. However, it can also be used for athletes to improve their flexibility, strength, and quality of specific or skilled movements.
PNF follows natural diagonal patterns within human movements to facilitate and improve them by utilising direct collaboration between the physiotherapist and the patient.

Ultrasound therapy helps enhance the healing process through the use of ultrasonic vibrations. It creates heat and blood flow within and around more superficial structures, primarily in ligaments.

These methods are not used as stand-alone treatments but as with every method, they may often be combined into an entire approach when needed.

This professional approach offers a comprehensive re-examination of several medical conditions, that are often failed to be diagnosed and treated by traditional methods. Conservative treatment means treating the condition without the need for corticosteroid injections, invasive diagnostic procedures, or full surgery.

Therefore, if you are:

• On the public health (NHS) eating list for surgery
• Offered surgery privately as part of an insurance policy benefits
• Decided to go for surgery as a professional recommendation of a surgeon
• Had your physiotherapy treatment failed
• Having too much pain and limitation so surgery seems to be your last result 
• You are a Professional athlete needing a surgical fix
• You are currently an injured amateur athlete/player or an active person

Then I wish to provide you with some background to what surgery means, its risks, and some of its potential consequences, even if your problem can be technically fixed by surgery:

• Pain - some nerve damage as a normal result of the operation may alter the function of your nervous system, which can lead to severe and long-term pain, completely unrelated to any physical damage or your recovery process.
• Infection - a common risk of medical operation and general stay in hospitals, even in a successful surgery.
• Long-term dysfunction and scars - once muscular, neural, bony, or ligament tissue are cut off, they will rarely go back to their original form and properties. So your performance will never be the same as what it was before. Your body can compensate but it will have to work harder to achieve your previous level of performance. 
• No improvement - the fact you were operated on does not mean your problem will be cured. Many surgeries these days are done since no option can be offered to the patient.
• Long-term recovery - the simplest operation takes between six months to achieve initial recovery. Most often it will take more than a year to return to full physical capacity. The time off from family, work, regular hobbies, and housework is often a big burden to most people. 
• Death - according to the NHS, more than 27,000 patients die annually from elective (planned) procedures. Therefore,  if you don’t truly need one then you should not have one!

If by now you’re reconsidering the surgical option, these are a few of the common conditions that are often operated on and can be avoided by re-examination and specific treatment:

• Frozen shoulders
• Rotator calf injuries or impingement syndrome
• Trapped sciatic nerve - Sciatica
• Chronic groin surgeries - Gilmoiur’s Groin
• Lateral epicondylitis - Tennis Elbow
• Prolapsed disk
• Knee injuries (tendon, joint, or ligaments)
• Achilles Tendinopathy 
• Plantar fasciitis
• Morton’s neuroma of the forefoot

In the last few years, I helped several of my clients avoid or prevent having surgeries for the above conditions. Over time I perfected the methodology which is what Avoid-Opp is today.

Some of them were so grateful for it and I felt that it is time to publish it as part of my services, so I can help more people with their current pain or dysfunction by avoiding the risk of having surgery. 

This is how I do it:

I would first apply for a very comprehensive examination, in a way that you did not receive before by a physiotherapist and certainly not by your surgeon. Remember he or she is there to fix you when your physiotherapy treatment has failed to do so. That’s their job and they may still do it very well. 

I will then work out a diagnosis of your problem again (structurally and functionally) for re-treating it effectively. I will also identify and actual sources of your pain and its mechanism.

Finally, I will highlight my findings to you and will be able to test them specifically as well as holistically and using advanced treatment methods to test and prove potential results immediately. I will then prescribe and apply the right treatment.

All of it will be explained to you in simple terms, diagrams, and clear demonstrations.  

Through the process and during the first session I will start with a questioning interview to track down your current and past medical history regarding the problem you are about to be operated on. I will then apply manual tests for joints, ligaments, muscles,s and nerves as well as stability tests to understand and differentiate between your different symptoms.

I will be using my proven experience in clinical reasoning to localize your problem and its sources precisely, while constantly keeping you in the loop of understanding everything I test or do.

Once the assessment is completed we will both know for sure what are the chances of helping you overcome your condition and avoiding the painful and limiting experience of surgery.

The treatment will be a combination of:

1. Varied manipulating therapies

2. Precise muscular exercises 

3. Shockwave (which is science-proven surgery replacing treatment)

4. Rehabilitation and gradual return to your previous function. 

Finally, there is nothing for you to lose here and you will be delighted with either preventing your upcoming surgery or knowing that you didn’t do everything possible and that the surgery that you’re about to have is your very last resort.

Do not miss this opportunity to assess and hopefully prevent your source and all risks, pain, and hardship thereafter.