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JOB VACANCIES AT PRESTONS PETERBOROUGHDue to ongoing expansion at Prestons, we are currently looking for a pool of part-time Chartered Physiotherapists to join our team.
Evening and Saturday morning hours available.
If you are a Chartered Physiotherapist, Registered with the Health Professions Council, and have more than 2 years of musculo-skeletal experience and interested in the role, then please contact the clinic on 01733 565911 and ask for our Clinical Director, Helen Preston.
PRESTONS WELCOME NEW CHIROPODIST TO THE TEAM
Prestons have now teamed up with Sue Arnold, HPC Registered Podiatrist and Chiropodist, to offer our enhanced chiropody service.
Sue qualified in 1989 and is very experienced in all aspects of foot care.
Sue is currently working on Monday and Friday mornings at the clinic.
Please call us on 01733 565911 to book an appointment.
PRESTONS PHYSIOTHERAPISTS ATTEND 3 DAY WORKSHOP ABOUT MODERN MANAGEMENT OF LOW BACK PAIN WITH PROFESSOR PETER O'SULLIVAN
2 Physiotherapists from Prestons attended a 3 day workshop at the University of Warwick on 18-20 April 2010. The workshop involved presentations by Professor Peter O'Sullivan (from the University of Curtin, Western Australia) on an evidence based method of cognitive functional therapy to treat chronic low back pain.
For more details, please ask to speak to Helen Preston or Rob Lavies who attended the course.
NEW BIOMECHANICS SPECIALIST VASILEIOS LEPESIS, PODIATRIST AND CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPIST, HAS JOINED THE PRACTICE
offering specialist biomechanical assessment and treatment strategies, including prescription of both over-the-counter insoles and custom-made orthotics..............
ACCESS TO PHYSIOTHERAPY TREATMENT AT PRESTONS:
You are able to simply phone us for an appointment on 01733 565911.
We do accept referrals from GPs and Consultants.
We are providers to all major healthcare insurance companies, including BUPA, AXA PPP, AVIVA and Simply Health -
Our primary focus at Prestons is Physiotherapy.
The benefit of coming to see a physiotherapist at Prestons for assessment and treatment of your condition is clear: we try our very best to get to the root of the problems.
Our training is very holistic in its approach. We are the health professional specialists in human movement and all aspects of the way in which we move. Our training allows us to utilise all our skills in the above areas to treat the patient as an individual. We train in a whole host of locations, including hospitals, schools, GP clinics as well as the community. This ensures that we have a high level of medical understanding and training.
You can be safe in the knowledge that Physiotherapists at Prestons not only treat your condition with the appropriate techniques, but they also help you to identify why your problem developed in the first place to ensure you have long term benefit from our intervention.
We are also bound by a code of ethics which ensures that we only treat when it is clinically appropriate and (with your permission) we always liase closely with your GP. Prestons views it just as important to know when not to treat as well as when to treat. You, the patient, needs to be secure in the knowledge that your physiotherapist has your best interests at heart.
We also acknowledge that there are three major factors that need to be considered when assessing and treating a patient:
• "The biological factor" ie the actual source of the problem at tissue level. For example, in low back pain, this may be a "prolapsed disc".This is known as the "bio-psycho-social approach" and why physiotherapists at Prestons always take a detailed history (including a medical history) incorporating all aspects of a condition before they examine and treat the individual.
• "The psychological factor" ie the impact of our psychological system on the development of a condition. For example, in low back pain, this might involve what an individual's health beliefs about the source of the pain are.
• "The sociological factor" ie the environment in which the individual lives in. This includes the patients work, home life, relationships and hobbies.
What techniques do we use?
We use a combination of manual therapy, movement training and physical and electrophysical agents to achieve a long term answer to your individual problem. We tailor every treatment according to your specific problem, incorporating some or all of the following:
• Experienced manual therapy (joint and nerve mobilisation, manipulation, soft tissue release, massage and traction)What conditions do physiotherapists treat? - The following conditions respond well to physiotherapy:
• Specific exercise advice, involving muscle re-training, strengthening and stretching
• Other modalities including ultrasound, interferential therapy and TENS (amongst others).
• Acupuncture
• Back and neck pain, including sciatica and whiplash
• Joint problems, such arthritis, shoulder/hip/knee/elbow/wrist and ankle problems
• Sport and soft tissue injuries
• Post operative condition, such as joint surgery
• Post fractures and broken bones
• Work related injuries such as repetitive strain injuries and tennis elbow
