by Sherri Cicirello | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog
Low back pain is one of the most common reasons for individuals to seek medical care. The cause for this pain can be quite broad for both young and older populations. Low back pain can cause significant disability and have a great impact on a person’s quality of life....
by Sherri Cicirello | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog
In this month of South Simcoe Physiotherapy’s blog post, we are going to explore a real patients physiotherapy experience suffering from shoulder pain – right from the initial assessment and diagnosis to the patient returning to their goals and graduating from...
by Sherri Cicirello | Jan 24, 2024 | Blog
With snowy winter days finally here, we see an increased number of “fall related injuries” at South Simcoe Physiotherapy’s clinics in both Tottenham and Alliston. A 2021 study (by Huynh et al) found that from 2011 to 2015 falls were “the leading cause of injury...
by Sherri Cicirello | Jan 5, 2024 | Blog
Tennis elbow, also known in the medical field as lateral epicondylitis is one of the most common overuse injuries at the elbow. It should be known that only 5% of people that play tennis, suffer from tennis elbow! What is tennis elbow? Tennis elbow involves the...
by Sherri Cicirello | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog
What is Frozen Shoulder? Adhesive capsulitis, also known as frozen shoulder, is a gradual loss of movement in theshoulder joint with associated pain. For starters, let’s go over a little bit of shoulder anatomy. The shoulder joint being the most mobile joint in the...
by Sherri Cicirello | Nov 6, 2023 | Blog
Have you ever been to a physiotherapy clinic and felt like you heard some sort of loud construction equipment down the hall or in the room over? Although that may have been the case, often times it is shockwave therapy that you are hearing! How does shockwave therapy...
