Nottingham & Derby Physio

Hip

Hip pain can limit mobility, making everyday activities like walking, sitting, or climbing stairs difficult. Whether caused by arthritis, muscle weakness or tightness, sports injuries, or prolonged postures, physiotherapy provides targeted treatment to relieve pain and restore movement.

A physiotherapist will assess your hip joint, muscles, and movement patterns to develop a personalized treatment plan. This may include manual therapy, strengthening exercises and movement retraining to reduce strain and prevent future discomfort.

By increasing flexibility, stability, and strength, physiotherapy helps restore function, reduce stiffness, and enhance overall hip health. Whether recovering from an injury or managing a long-term condition, the right physiotherapy approach can improve mobility and keep you moving with confidence.

Hands

Hand pain can significantly impact daily activities, from gripping objects to performing fine motor tasks. Whether caused by arthritis, repetitive strain, nerve compression, or injury, physiotherapy offers effective treatments to relieve pain and restore function.

A physiotherapist will assess the underlying cause of your hand pain and develop a personalized treatment plan. This may include manual therapy to improve joint mobility, strength and flexibility exercises to support the muscles and tendons, and splinting or taping to provide stability and aid recovery.

By improving grip strength, reducing stiffness, and enhancing overall dexterity, physiotherapy helps restore normal hand function and prevents further discomfort. With the right treatment and guidance, you can regain confidence in using your hands for everyday tasks.

Wrist

Wrist pain can make even simple tasks challenging, affecting grip strength, flexibility, and overall hand function. Whether caused by repetitive strain, an injury, arthritis, or nerve compression, physiotherapy provides targeted treatment to reduce pain and restore movement.

A physiotherapist will assess your wrist to identify the root cause of discomfort and create a tailored treatment plan. This may include manual therapy to improve joint mobility, strengthening exercises to support the wrist and forearm muscles, and ergonomic advice to prevent further strain, especially for those with work-related or sports-related issues.

Physiotherapy helps support long-term recovery by addressing strength and range of movement and improving overall wrist function. With the right treatment approach, you can regain confidence in everyday hand movements.

Neck

Neck pain is a common issue that can affect daily life, limiting movement and causing discomfort. Whether it’s caused by static postures, muscle strain, injury, or an underlying condition, physiotherapy offers effective solutions to relieve pain and restore mobility.

A physiotherapist will assess the root cause of your neck pain and develop a tailored treatment plan to address it. This may include manual therapy to release tension and improve mobility, targeted exercises to strengthen the muscles around your neck, and advice to prevent recurring issues.

Physiotherapy not only helps reduce pain but also improves flexibility, increases range of motion, and enhances overall function. By addressing muscle weakness and restricted movement patterns, treatment can prevent further discomfort and support long-term recovery.

If you’re experiencing persistent neck pain, physiotherapy can provide the guidance needed to regain comfort and function. A proactive approach to treatment can help you move more freely and get back to your daily activities.

Knee

A typical cause of knee pain that we see in clinic is described as “Anterior Knee Pain” this is the common term for pain around the patello-femoral joint. The patella acts as a pully system for the thigh muscles (quads) and typically pain is diffuse / non-specific and changeable when irritable. This is a really annoying condition, depending on how severe things are depends on how effective treatment strategies are.

One things for sure, patience and perseverance are key. Its worth seeing whether there’s tightness / weakness in the lower limb especially that might be contributing to mechanical forces.

The main management for AKP usually involves activity modification and a load overview. i.e. gradually changing our activity levels over time and considering speed, time, surface and general life events alongside a gradual increase in distance.

Pain is not the best way to monitor whether things are better / worse as many factors influence pain. Noticing if you get any swelling / heat around the joint is more useful, especially if there’s a change in these symptoms.

Strengthening / stretching trends seem to vary, but essentially maintaining or regaining a robustness in the body is essential.

We’re happy to work with you to help if you struggle with knee pain. Knowing what’s causing any pain and what you can do about it is empowering. Hopefully you can then do the activities you enjoy without having to avoid them.

Back

Sciatica commonly refers to pain in the lower back or buttock, travelling down into the leg. This is often due to irritation of a nerve near where it comes out of the spine. Someone with sciatica may also have tingling, numbness or weakness in part(s) of their leg.
The medical term for these symptoms is “Lumbar Radiculopathy”, meaning an injury of the nerve in the lower back. The name “Sciatica” originates from the sciatic nerve which is a large nerve that passes down the back of the leg, which tends to be the most common area of symptoms.

Not everyone’s symptoms will be in the back of the leg but despite this people often use the term sciatica to describe nerve pain or dysfunction in the leg and lower back.

How can Physiotherapy help?

Your physiotherapist will ask you questions and thoroughly examine you to determine the causes for your symptoms and to establish how we can best guide your recovery. We will then create an individualised plan for you to help you get back to your normal symptom-free activities.

Elbow

Lateral Elbow Pain

Tennis elbow tends to be painful around the lateral epicondyle on the outside of your elbow which serves as the attachment point for the extensor muscles of the wrist and hand. These muscles allow you to straighten your fingers and lift your wrist up if your palm is facing downwards.

Although it is most commonly caused by overuse, it can sometimes be tricky to pinpoint when this overuse occurred. Unlike a strain or a sprain, there is not always a specific memorable action or moment when the pain started.
Usually, very few people actually get this injury from playing tennis, its more likely every day activities, or typically with an unusual increase such as doing some DIY / gardening.

Medial Elbow Pain

Commonly referred to as Golfers Elbow, pain is on the medial epicondyle on the inside of your elbow which serves as the attachment point for the flexor muscles of the wrist and hand. These muscles allow you to bend your fingers and bend your wrist down if your palm is facing downwards.

How can Physiotherapy help?

Your physiotherapist will assess your elbow to determine the cause of the pain, and then will be able to advise on what may be best for you depending on your goals and normal activities. This will usually involve guided exercises to help make the affected tendon more resilient and advice on adjustments that can be made to your normal activities to help your elbow recover as quickly as possible.