Orthopaedic Therapy & Sports Injury Clinic Youghal

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What is fascia?
You can think of fascia like a spider web. The stringy tissue is densely woven throughout your muscles, bones, nerves, arteries, veins and organs. Your fascia is one continuous structure throughout your body. Each part of your body is connected to it in some way. That’s why if there’s a snag in the tissue in one part of your body, it can cause pain in another part of your body.

Normally, fascia is flexible and stretchy. But it’s strong. It provides structural support to your body and protects your muscles. Fascia is usually able to move without any restrictions. When your body experiences any kind of trauma, your fascia loses its flexibility. It becomes tightened and more rigid. The tightness can lead to pain and loss of motion, which can affect your quality of life.

DRY NEEDLING to
treat myofascial pain and trigger points in the muscles. It involves inserting thin, sterile needles into specific points in the muscles to stimulate a healing response and release tension. Unlike acupuncture, which is based on traditional Chinese medicine, dry needling is rooted in Western medicine and anatomy.

The different types of headaches….

There are over 200 different types of headaches, however there are three that are overwhelmingly the most common, accounting for over 90% of all incidents.

Tension-type headache
This is by far the most common and affects 60–80% of the population. These headaches are associated with stress, depression, head injury and / or postural tension. They are felt as tightening or pressure like a band around your head.

Migraines
Migraines are the next most common headache, with an overall prevalence of 15%, although this is skewed with females being more than twice as likely as men to suffer. Whilst there are many causes of a migraine, they can be triggered from issues in the upper neck. Often, they affect one side of your head and can cause issues with sight or sound sensitivity. In extreme cases they may cause abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.

Cervicogenic headaches
Cervicogenic headaches occur when pain is referred from a specific source in the neck, up into the head. Symptoms often occur on one side of the neck or head, sometimes causing pain around the eyes. Is a secondary headache, caused by a pre-existing physical or neurologic condition.

How can Orthopaedic Therapy and Sports Injury Clinic help?

Orthopaedic therapist uses palpation, manipulation, stretching and massage to increase the mobility of joints, and help relieve muscle tension. This enhances blood and nerve supply to tissues, helping your body’s own healing mechanisms.

Back open Thursday 4th at 9am 🎉 For appointments, please call 083-1844705. Hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas break and Happy New Year 2024.
Looking forward to seeing you all 🙂

November is cold season:
sniffles, colds, sniffles everywhere. And men in particular emerge as particularly pitiful victims. They feel like they whine and suffer much more than women and are nostalgic. Now there is some relieving news: the course of many infectious diseases is actually often more severe in men than in women! The famous X chromosome is to blame. This contains genes that are important for the immune response, and as is well known, women have two of these and men only have one. The immune reaction is weaker in men and the infection is more severe. So the “men’s cold” actually exists. So bear with the suffering man even if he exaggerates...

Pink October: life, strength, struggle and overcoming! Know your body and take care of your health. Do the self-exam and also the mammogram!!!

Feeling very proud and happy 🤩😁

finally finished the website have a look... 😁
www.youghalinjuryclinic.ie