Melissa Smith Physiotherapy

13/04/2025

14/04/2024

Made this last night, base was two ingredients of 0% fat greek yoghurt, and SR four. I don’t think I will buy pizza again

08/03/2024

Happy international women’s day 😁

Happy International Women's Day! 💪🏻 💪🏽 💪🏿 ⁠
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05/03/2024

This is always worth a reshare, some really important information from The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy regarding falls 👍

26/02/2024

Love this! 😂

07/01/2024

Another great review to end the week on. Glad to be of help 😁

03/01/2024

Home made carrot and coriander soup on a cold day….. perfect 👌

17/12/2023

Love this! Things get so much harder this time of the year. These little things do help

📣 The Twelve Messages of Christmas 🎄 (to keep people physically active) 💪 🏃‍♀️

NEW Christmas 🎅

How can we encourage Stepping Into Christmas? 👣

Find out more ➡️ https://bit.ly/48hHERJ

13/07/2023

Loving the new work uniform 😁

13/06/2023

Spending the morning planning and rehearsing for my first Pilates class in two years. Not an easy task with a toddler hanging off me and helping!

06/06/2023

Anti-inflammatory medication is often used to reduce symptoms of osteoarthritis. This interesting study found that it may also contribute to other health issues!
Physiotherapy can be another way to help reduce the symptoms.

A common medical solution to those wiht osteoarthritis are NSAIDs. While effective in reducing pain in the short term are there any long term effects it has on our health? Should we be taking them all the time?
This study found that those with osteoarthritis had a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease than controls without osteoarthritis. Now this can be due a number of factors however increased NSAID use was found to account to be a signficiant contributor to increased CVD risk in those with OA.
Be mindful of a client's medication use and try advocate for other interventions!
Atiquzzaman, M., Karim, M. E., Kopec, J., Wong, H., & Anis, A. H. (2019). Role of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs in the association between osteoarthritis and cardiovascular diseases: a longitudinal study. Arthritis & Rheumatology, 71(11), 1835-1843.

25/04/2023

Love this explanation!