Joy Lane Clinic Whitstable - Treatment for Tennis Elbow

Whitstable Joy Lane Clinic can help with Tennis Elbow

Tennis Elbow Tennis Elbow (lateral epicondylitis) is a painful condition that occurs when tendons in your elbow are overloaded, usually by repetitive motions of the wrist and arm. Despite its name, athletes aren’t the only people who develop Tennis Elbow. People whose jobs feature the types of motions that can lead to Tennis Elbow include […]

Shockwave

Shockwave Therapy

We are pleased to offer Shockwave Therapy at the clinic. Shockwave therapy is a non-surgical treatment, and works by delivering impulses of energy, targeted to specific damaged tissues within the abnormal tendon. This increases the blood flow within the affected area, stimulating cell regeneration and healing, and decreasing local factors which can cause pain. The Shockwave therapy is a […]

MSK Ultrasonography

Muscloskeletal Ultrasound (MSKUS)

MSKUS is a safe non-invasive therapy that is used to help diagnose sprains, strains, tears, and other soft tissue conditions. At Joy Lane clinic we offer this service and also when necessary perform ultrasound guided injections. This past week we have done guided injections on a shoulder for subacromial bursitis, a knee for suprapatellar bursitis […]

Osteopath's treat more than you think!

Osteopath’s treat more than you think!

I suppose I am lucky that I am now established this past 13 years in practice and people are aware that I can treat all parts of the body, not just backs and necks. Recently I had a patient discussing a topic that often comes up, “GP’s don’t recognise osteopathy, and we are classed as […]

Osteopathy – More Than Treating Back Pain

Osteopathy – More Than Treating Back Pain

Recently I was in a shop where I bumped into a patient who I had been treating for neck and shoulder pain which she had had for years but which was now very much improved. She informed me that she began to suffer knee pain and that she went to her GP who said that […]

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Self-Diagnosis & the Internet

In this day and age the internet has been a revelation not only for shopping online but also for finding information on practically anything you can think of. This can be a good thing but also a bad thing.   What do I mean by this? Well in medical terms, the signs and symptoms of […]