Top Tips to Boost your Immune System
Top Tips to Boost Your Immune System Here are our top tips to boost your immune system and building a healthier lifestyle. By making a number of small changes you can keep help to aid your recovery for illness and injury, or even prevent the illness from taking hold in the first place. 1. Top […]
Athletic Therapy
Athletic Therapy If you’ve ever had a sports injury or nagging pain that won’t go away, chances are you’ve been told to see a physiotherapist—but what about an athletic therapist? While both professions focus on injury recovery and movement, they’re not the same thing. Read on to learn exactly what athletic therapy is, how it […]
Vestibular Physiotherapy
What Is Vestibular Physiotherapy? Vestibular physiotherapy is also known as vestibular rehabilitation. It is an exercise based program designed to improve symptoms such as dizziness, disorientation and balance issues. The main focus of vestibular physiotherapy is to retrain the vestibular system through repeated exposure to specific movement or visual stimulus. These exercises include balance training, […]
Benefits of Exercise
REASONS TO DO EXERCISE Exercise is an activity that many people dread and don’t bother yet it holds so many positive benefits for the body and for your health. No matter your age or fitness level, you can get involved in many types of exercise or even with various local clubs or groups. As we […]
Physiotherapy for Farmers for All Seasons
Importance of Physiotherapy For Farmers Famers love what they do, no doubt about that. They spend their days out in all weather, pulling and dragging, lifting and lugging. Whether they are calving or feeding, cleaning or fencing a lot is being asked of their bodies everyday. Add into that the lack of ‘downtime’ to heal […]
Vestibular Rehabilitation
What is Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy? Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) is an Physiotherapy related, exercise-based program designed by a specialty-trained vestibular physiotherapist. The aim of vestibular rehabilitation is to help improve a patient’s balance and reduce problems related to dizziness, helping to reduce or eliminate balance issues. Did you know that up to 40% of […]
Shockwave Therapy
What Is Shockwave Therapy? Shockwave Therapy (SWT) is a fast and effective, non-invasive method of treating many painful musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. SWT speeds up the healing process by stimulating the muscles and allowing the body to heal itself. A series of mechanical shockwaves are applied to the area that requires treatment. Recent studies have shown […]
Avoiding Injuries with Exercise
Now that spring has finally arrived, a lot of people are running or walking more frequently. Longer days and slightly better weather can be a great motivator to get back into shape after a winter of indulgence and comfortable living. Let us help you with avoiding injuries with that extra exercise. Here’s what you need […]
Claiming Physiotherapy Expenses From Your Private Health Insurance
What You Need To Know About Claiming Physiotherapy Expenses From Your Private Health Insurance Can I Claim Anything Back? When you are claiming physiotherapy expenses back from your Health Insurance the very first thing that you need to do is check that you are going to a physiotherapist who is registered with CORU and Irish […]
Get Moving Again in January
Its important to get moving again in January but for most people, January is not the ideal month for getting back into exercise. The days can be wet and wild, the evenings still quite short and the dark still creeps in far too early. Its hard to get outside to play with the children, or […]