ACE Blog
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The importance of patient expectations
Patients’ beliefs and expectations need to be better understood by clinicians to improve management. Asking the question, What is your understanding of your pain? Do you believe that it is just a physical / mechanical problem? Spending the time to really hear your patient’s story and understand what they expect from this treatment regarding their pain and […]
Managing lateral hip pain
Following on from last week’s email about the Lateral hip pain. This week we will take a look at the management. One of the key components to successful management is education. Educating our patients about potential contributors to their pain is key. AS discussed last week the gluteal tendons are vulnerable to compression at the insertion […]
Lateral hip pain
Lateral hip pain is very common and debilitating source of pain. There are multiple pathologies associated with anatomical structures of the lateral hip including: 👉 Gluteal tendinopathy👉 Proximal ITB syndrome👉 External snapping hip syndrome👉 Gluteal tears👉 Gluteal bursitis Pain in this region has been termed Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (GTPS) which is an umbrella term. […]
Referred Pain
What is it? Referred pain can be confusing and often misunderstood. Patients regularly present to us in clinical practice with referred pain symptoms. But what is it? Where does it come from? and why can it be so different? Firstly let’s start out by stating that referred pain is different to neuropathic pain. Referred […]
Your back is not out!!!
Ok, this is potentially going to upset a few people… Mostly because what we are discussing today will go against some long held beliefs of many practitioners and their patients. The old “structural” model of understanding in relation to joint position and related pain is far too simplistic and lacking in understanding of modern pain […]
Demonising the tilt: Is pelvic posture misconceived and misinterpreted?
I’ve been told I have back pain because I have an anterior pelvic tilt… Is there really a causal relationship between pelvic tilt and pain? Let’s start this with an example… 2 patients walk into a clinic. The first one has low back pain and then the therapist notices that they have what looks like […]
