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Practical advice and free resources to help you better understand pain, keep moving and build confidence in managing your health. Explore our free guides, exercise and mobility resources, and practical articles from Midlands Physio.

Free guides and resources

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Free Back Pain Guide

A practical guide to understanding back pain, staying active, building confidence and getting back to the things that matter to you.

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Free Knee Pain Guide

A practical guide to understanding knee pain, managing activity, building strength and gradually getting back to the things you enjoy.

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How to Test Your Ankle Mobility – Knee-to-Wall Test

The knee-to-wall test is a simple way to assess ankle mobility. In this short video I demonstrate how to perform the test and compare movement from one side to the other.

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A Simple Seated Exercise for a Stiff or Sore Back

A simple movement I regularly use with people experiencing back pain or stiffness. All you need is a chair, and it can be a useful way to gently explore some comfortable movement.

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Understanding Osteoarthritis – and What You Can Do About It

What osteoarthritis is, some of the factors associated with it, and the role movement, exercise and lifestyle can play in managing symptoms.

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Back Pain: Common Myths & Misconceptions

Back pain can be confusing, and some commonly held beliefs can make it seem more frightening than it needs to be. In this video I look at some of the common misconceptions around back pain and what our current understanding tells us.

May 13, 2024

3 Tips To Help Keep You Pain Free While Gardening

It’s that time of the year where the sun comes out and the gardens explode. And while you want to make use of the good weather, it can be easy to overdo it and end up crocked afterwards. So, to help avoid that from here are 3 things to keep in mind. 1 – Take […]

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September 13, 2023

Why The Area Of Pain Is Often Not The Cause Of The Pain.

Have you ever heard someone say before that the area of pain is not always the cause of the problem. It is indeed true and we see this a lot, with the complaints that our patients come to see us with at Midlands Physio & Back Pain Clinic. So, let me explain to you how […]

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May 24, 2023

5 Tips To Help Ensure You Exercise Everyday

We all know the importance of movement and exercise , yet so many people can struggle to fit it in to their day. With everyone back to what seems to be as busy as they were before the pandemic, exercise can often get knocked down the list of priorities that need to be accomplished that […]

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March 30, 2023

Neck Pain! Knots In Your Shoulders! What Can be Done To Help

People complaining of knots, stiffness and pain in the upper back and neck is nothing new. But over the last 3 years I have definitely seen a vast increase in the number of people with neck, shoulder and upper back pains. ( no surprise it coincides with the stress and challenges of Covid and more […]

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March 21, 2023

How To Stop And Overcome Knee Pain

We see a lot of people in the clinic who come to us looking for help with their knee pain.  Sometimes there will be an obvious reason behind their knee pain, such as a twist, fall or injury playing sport, but with the majority of people we see there is not. They will often say […]

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