Nineteen guides to the injuries that come through the door at Kingsway most often. Each one covers what the problem is, what the evidence supports, what to do in the first two weeks, and when to stop self-managing and get it looked at.
Book an assessment →The most common reason people book a session here. What actually helps, and why staying still usually makes it worse.
Read the guide → ⚡Pain that travels from the back into the leg. How to tell true nerve pain from referred pain, and what changes each one.
Read the guide → 🧍Desk-related neck and upper trapezius pain, headaches from the neck, and what to do beyond stretching it.
Read the guide → 🥶Adhesive capsulitis: why the shoulder stiffens, how long each phase lasts, and what treatment is worth doing when.
Read the guide → 💪Shoulder pain on reaching, lifting or sleeping on that side. Tendinopathy, tears, and why most do not need surgery.
Read the guide → 🎾Tendon pain on the outside or inside of the elbow. Load management, shockwave, and the grip test that tracks progress.
Read the guide → 🏃Tendon pain at the back of the ankle, common in runners and racket sports. Progressive loading over rest.
Read the guide → 🦶That first-step-in-the-morning pain under the heel. What loads the plantar fascia, and what settles it.
Read the guide → 🦵Pain around or behind the kneecap on stairs, squats and long runs. A loading problem more than a structural one.
Read the guide → 🏀Jumper's knee: pain at the bottom of the kneecap in jumping and change-of-direction sport.
Read the guide → 🦶The injury most likely to be under-rehabbed. Why a sprain that felt fine keeps rolling again.
Read the guide → ⚽The highest re-injury rate in sport. What the return-to-play criteria actually are, beyond feeling ready.
Read the guide → 🩵Greater trochanteric pain: pain on the outside of the hip, worse lying on that side. Often mistaken for bursitis.
Read the guide → 🦿Medial tibial stress syndrome. How to tell it from a stress fracture, and how to keep running through it safely.
Read the guide → 🎿Surgery or rehab, the stages either way, and the tests to pass before you play again. Why nine months is the minimum.
Read the guide → 🏃Gastrocnemius or soleus, how long each takes, and the heel-raise numbers to hit before you run again.
Read the guide → 🥅Adductor strains and the groin pain that drags on all season. The squeeze test, the Copenhagen exercise and when it is something else.
Read the guide → 🩹What the first twelve weeks after a total knee replacement should look like, and the range-of-motion window that matters.
Read the guide → 🦴Recovery milestones after a total hip replacement, precautions worth respecting, and when strength work starts.
Read the guide →No guide matches that yet. Try a body part, or message the clinic and describe it.
One question each, answered in about five minutes, written from what comes through the door at Kingsway. Each one links up to the full guide.
A neck that locked overnight usually frees up in a week. When acupuncture shortens that, and what to do before your first session.
Read it → 🦿The targets for weeks 1, 2, 6 and 12 after a knee replacement, and the dates for driving, work and the Tube.
Read it → 📍Both use the same fine needle. Where each one puts it, what it feels like, and which to book for a knot that keeps coming back.
Read it → 🪡What the best trial found, how many sessions to give it before judging, and the symptoms that need a different route.
Read it → 💆Two names, a lot of overlap. Which to book for a race, a heavy training block or a week at a desk, and when in the week to have it.
Read it → 🧍Five posture exercises ranked by the evidence and by how well they fit a desk day, with reps and a six-week plan.
Read it → 💪Five cuff exercises ranked by the muscle-activity data, with starting loads and a 12-week plan. Side-lying external rotation tops it.
Read it → 💻The ache that builds from about 3pm and follows you onto the train home. Why it happens and the ten minutes that shift it.
Read it → 🏋️Your back went on a heavy pull. What to do in the first 72 hours, what you can keep training, and when it needs looking at.
Read it →These guides describe the pattern. An assessment tells you which part of it is yours, which stage you are at, and how hard you can push this week.