Neck pain is one of the most common presenting conditions in physiotherapy clinics. Together with low back pain, the two conditions account for approximately 50% of the entire workload of a physiotherapy practice. Like lower back pain, most neck pain is not serious, settles quickly, doesn’t require scanning and is most appropriately treated with physiotherapy and pain relieving and anti-inflammatory medications.
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Knee pain is one of the most common sporting injuries experienced by active teenagers. It’s particularly common in the early teenage years 11-14. There can be numerous causes of adolescent knee pain. Teenagers can suffer from any of the same causes of knee pain as adults such as tendon, joint, muscle, ligament or meniscus injury, but also have a tendency to develop knee pain for developmental reasons.
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.
