I’d highly recommend Laurel Lodge Physiotherapy. Chartered Physiotherapist Alan Moynihan very quickly diagnosed my knee injury – a medial collateral ligament strain. He gave me expert advice on the expected recovery time and how long before I could return to training. His treatments were always effective and kept to a minimum.
Very often patients suggest that their joint aches and pains are made worse by the cold and damp weather. It’s been said anecdotally to me all too often not to give some credence to this view. However there remains no firm scientific evidence that the cold and damp weather has a detrimental affect on osteoarthritis.
The label frozen shoulder tends to be used to describe any pain and associated restriction of movement in the shoulder joint. This is a mistake. The condition more correctly described as adhesive capsulitis, refers very specifically to an inflammatory process within the joint capsule of the shoulder and results in a characteristic restriction in your shoulder range of movement in specific planes of movement. A true frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis, is debilitating, causes extreme pain and can last between 18-24 months.
Everyone else’s training isn’t going as seamlessly as you believe. It’s the scourge of every runner, the certainty that; while you’re laid up with injury the rest of the athletic world is breezing effortlessly through their training programme. Everyone picks up knocks and niggles, particularly at this time of year, with a long summer of training in the legs.
