Find the pain or injury you have, and see how physiotherapy helps it
The things people most often book about, described the way they actually turn up rather than the way a textbook lists them. Pick the closest and read from there.
The two that arrive most often
Neck pain tends to build rather than arrive. Fine on Monday, tight by Thursday, sometimes with a headache that starts at the base of the skull. Long screen hours, driving and carrying a heavy bag on one side all feed it.
Neck pain: causes, assessment and treatment
Back pain is the single most common reason people book. Usually a lower back that stiffened after lifting, gardening or a long drive, or an ache that has quietly been there for months and has started interfering with sleep.
After a desk week, or after an accident
Posture and desk-related pain is the office worker's version: neck, upper back and lower back that ache after long hours at a screen, driving or sedentary work. It responds well to treatment plus a few practical changes to the working day.
Posture and desk-related pain: what helps
Whiplash and road traffic injuries often show up a day or two after a shunt, as neck stiffness, headache and pain into the shoulders. Early gentle movement and a graded plan beat rest and a collar, and most cases settle well.
Shoulders, knees and legs
Shoulder pain announces itself when you reach behind for a seatbelt or lie on that side at night. Shoulder pain can affect sleep and reaching. An assessment can help distinguish stiffness, weakness and pain referred from the neck. Sciatica is pain that travels from the back or buttock down the leg, often with pins and needles, where the assessment matters more than almost anywhere else.
Knee pain is rarely about the knee alone: stairs, kneeling and the first mile of a run are the usual complaints. Running injuries and sports injuries tend to be load problems, where the fix is rarely rest alone.
Shoulder pain, knee pain, sciatica, running injuries and sports injuries.
Two guides worth your time
Both are written to be useful whether or not you ever book an appointment here.
Waiting for NHS physiotherapy in Dorset
What the NHS route looks like locally, what the wait realistically means, what you can safely do while you are on the list, and when waiting is genuinely the sensible choice.
Common running injuries
Runner's knee, ITB pain, shin splints, Achilles trouble and plantar problems, each with what it feels like, what to try first and the point at which it needs looking at.
Not sure which page fits
The categories overlap, and picking the wrong one costs you nothing. A neck problem that started after a car shunt belongs on two of these pages at once. The assessment sorts it out in the first appointment, so book whichever is closest.
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- Neck painDesk work, headaches, stiffness
- Back painLower back, stiffness, lifting
- WhiplashAfter a road traffic accident
- Posture and desk painScreens and sedentary work
- Shoulder painReaching, lifting, sleeping
- Knee painStairs, kneeling, running
- SciaticaLeg pain, pins and needles
- Running injuriesShins, Achilles, heels
- Sports injuriesReturn to training safely
- Musculoskeletal physiotherapyThe everyday category