Basic Exercises to Strengthen your Knee Muscles. If you have knee pain then here are some early exercises you can do to start to strengthen your muscles. They are designed to improve movement, strengthen your muscles and ease pain and discomfort too. We see a lot of...
I’ve pulled my Hamstring, what exercises can I do? A Hamstring Strain is an injury to the back upper leg muscle in which some of the muscle fibres are torn. It can be a grade one – mild tear, to grade three – rupture (total tear) of the hamstring muscle. We would...
What exercises should I do immediately after my Knee Replacement? We have been seeing more and more patients coming through our private physiotherapy clinics in Havant and Rowlands Castle who are struggling with pain, stiffness and walking after having a knee...
Cartilage (meniscus) injury – can physiotherapy help? Our Practitioners see a lot of patients with this common knee injury. Most commonly affected are sports players i.e football and rugby players plus skiing injuries too. You can also get a degenerative meniscus...
Injury to the medial collateral ligament (MCL) is one of the common causes of pain on the inside of the knee. What causes a medial collateral ligament sprain? A sprain happens when a ligament is stretched beyond its range of extensibility. The MCL is sprained when a...
