How Plantar Fasciitis Affects Movement and Function
Plantar Fasciitis is the inflammation of the band of tissue (plantar fascia) at the bottom of your foot that runs from your heel to your toes, causing pain on the bottom of the foot near the heel. This pain can often be worse when you take your first steps in the...
How the way we sit effects our back muscles
COVID-19 locked us all away in our homes, which has led to us changing our daily habits, particularly having to work from home! As many of us have spent more time sitting while on our laptops or watching TV, for example, this can be a major cause of back pain due to...
Why Physiotherapy is Important for Skiing Injuries
As winter slowly approaches, many of us will be heading back to the slopes for a skiing holiday, which has been a long time coming! For skiers and snowboarders, injuries are all too common, with knee injuries being the most common. This article explores how...
Exercises for Trapezius Muscle Relief
Pain or soreness of the trapezius muscle is a common complaint, as it is easy to cause muscle strain in this area. In this article we go over causes of trapezius muscle strain, as well as how to stretch your trapezius muscles to combat soreness and get you back to...
How often should you have a pregnancy massage?
From the moment a woman becomes pregnant, her body goes through a series of constant changes. From shifting pelvic bones, and a growing bump, to swollen ankles, and an overwhelming sense of smell. Each day her body does twice the work both inside and out. Considering...
5 Easy Exercises to do at Your Desk to Ease Aches and Pains
General aches and pains have become increasingly more common over the past 18 months due to a reduction of activity during the various lockdowns, and many people having to work from home in less than ideal, non-ergonomic environments. As many commutes have been...
How soon after giving birth can you do Pilates?
Pilates is a safe and comfortable way to introduce movement, improve posture and regain strength after having a baby. It focuses on improving the function and strength of the core muscles, which have been affected throughout your pregnancy and delivery of your baby. ...
Pilates for Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain is the most common musculoskeletal complaint in both GP and Physiotherapy clinics. Managing lower back pain can be tricky, but a growing body of evidence suggests that exercise-based rehabilitation under the supervision of a Physiotherapist is the most...
Adaptive Sports – Staying Active With Disabilities
Staying active with disabilities is essential to keep the body strong, flexible and mobile. However, people with disabilities have less access and opportunity to engage in sport, which reduces their overall physical and mental health. This article aims to shed light...
Managing Menopause with Women’s Health Physiotherapy
Menopause is a natural part of life for women, but can take its toll on the body. In this article we outline how women can manage the symptoms of menopause, both medically and through simple lifestyle changes. What Is Menopause? Menopause is a natural part of ageing...
What is Ultrasound Used For?
A diagnostic ultrasound scan is a useful tool medical professionals use to gain real-time images of the inside of our bodies. This allows us to move the affected joint or muscle to see how the damaged structure interacts with other structures. For example, as the...
Benefits of Pelvic Health Physiotherapy
Pelvic Physiotherapy is the rehabilitative treatment of all disorders & problems relating to pregnancy, the pelvis and pelvic floor. This encompasses problems from pregnancy related musculoskeletal problems, incontinence, pelvic girdle pain, and pelvic organ...
Pilates for Strong Legs
Pilates was originally developed by Joseph Pilates to help with the rehabilitation of injuries in the early 20th Century. These days, Pilates is a strength exercise with benefits including flexibility, posture, balance, and physiotherapy. It’s also a good option for...
What are the Key Principles of Pilates?
By Helen Everatt Evolved from the original method devised by Joseph Pilates in the early 20th Century, Pilates is a low-impact exercise that focuses on strength and stability. There are 6 key principles of Pilates that promise to deliver various health benefits to...
The Benefits Of Pilates On Our Bones
Most people are familiar with many of the benefits of Pilates and exercise, such as improving muscle strength and endurance, posture and flexibility. Perhaps not as well understood is the importance of regular physical activity in building and maintaining healthy...
The Answer To Long Lasting Health
By Helen Everatt, Mission Nutrition, Nutrition Coach and Fitness Instructor I work with clients to help them become a healthier, fitter version of themselves. Most clients come to me once they have exhausted fad diets, meal plans, shakes, smoothies, red days, syns and...
How Often Should I Get A Massage?
“How often should I get a massage” is a question we are asked often here at Katie Bell Physiotherapy and Wellness. The short answer would be as often as you like really. The long answer depends on many factors to include the type of massage you are having, your pain...
Fun Facts About Our Feet
As a Holistic Therapist I spend many hours treating clients with reflexology and still find it amazing how my wonderful clients benefit from this fantastic therapy and the results it can achieve... Our feet are probably the most used and unloved parts of our body....
Physio Vs Massage for Lower Back Pain
The use of physiotherapy vs massage for lower back pain is a common question that clients ask in our clinic, and often there is a bit of a grey area between the types of treatments available. Although both physio and massage have a place, there are reasons why we...
Quarantine & Pilates – A Story From Korea
At midday on 29 September, South Korea reported 38 new cases of coronavirus in the previous 24-hour period. Since the pandemic began, the country (which has a population of 52 million) has registered a total of 23,699 cases and 407 deaths. A great deal has been said...
Acupuncture Training Course @ KB Physiotherapy & Wellness
This weekend, as part of our focus on internal professional development, as well as supporting other regulated healthcare professionals in the region, Katie Bell Physiotherapy & Wellness will host an Acupuncture Foundation Course. Breeze Academy Acupuncture...
The Benefits Of A Relaxation Massage
What is massage? Massage is normally a whole or part body treatment with the therapist using their hands to perform pressure, stroking, kneading and rubbing movements to the skin. There are various types of massage that one can experience depending on the reason why...
5 Benefits Of The Wobble Board For Pilates
As an instructor I have seen clients walk into the studio, take one look at the wobble boards and they either hop on without a seconds thought or sigh with anxiousness and declare (before even taking their trainers off) that they are completely hopeless on it. This is...
Taping: Fashion Or Fix?
There are a few different types of tape: traditionally we have used tape to support ligaments, tendons and muscles to prevent further injury; also to give compression to a recently injured joint or to limit extremes of movement associated with chronic instability; or...
Tennis And Protecting Your Shoulders
Normally at this time of year, Wimbledon fever would be upon us and people up and down the country would be dusting off their rackets ready to get back on court over the summer period. Now, although Wimbledon has been cancelled this year, tennis certainly hasn’t and...
Postnatal Recovery in Lockdown
Congratulations on the arrival of your baby, I bet that was not the 3rd trimester, birth or homecoming you had imagined when you first saw that little blue stripe on your pregnancy test? Despite all the curve balls the lockdown has bought, you still need the essential...
Take Control Of Your Back Pain: 90-Day Online Program
We are excited to share with you the introduction of our new 'Take Control Of Your Back Pain 90-Day Online Program'. Have you suffered from back pain in the past? Are you suffering now? Are you worried about it getting worse or coming back again? Have tried everything...
The Perks Of A Home Yoga Practice
Practicing at home may have become the norm for us all at the moment, perhaps you’re missing the vibe of a studio and being surrounded by the energy of others, or maybe you’ve always wanted to try yoga but haven’t really gotten round to it etc, just like cleaning out...
3rd Trimester: Keeping Fit & Well During Lockdown
The likelihood is, this is an experience of the third trimester you will never, or have never, experienced in your life. The Coronavirus lockdown has had a huge impact on how we live, who we see and how we move. As you enter the 3rd trimester you are already faced...
Hip Tips For Staying Healthy As We Age
Hip pain is a common occurrence as we age especially as it is a load bearing joint - joints like to be moving and need to maintain lubrication to have ease and comfort whilst moving. The best way to strengthen a load bearing joint is to load it! We can do this without...