Our Services
We offer a variety of treatments tailored to your unique needs, ensuring the most effective approach for your recovery at our four different locations across Hertfordshire; Bishop Stortford, Hertford, Elstree & Welwyn Garden City.
At CJR Physiotherapy, we believe in a comprehensive approach to healing. That's why a thorough assessment will be conducted for all injuries prior to any treatment modalities, ensuring we understand the root cause and provide the best possible care for you.
We treat a variety of different musculoskeletal conditions, here is a list of just a few; Tendinopathies, Muscular strains, Ligament sprains, Sports injuries, Lower back pain, Neck pain, Nerve pain, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Tennis and golfers elbow, Sciatica, Road traffic accidents, Plantar fasciitis, Frozen shoulder, Pre and post operative including fractures and ACL injuries.
Rehabilitation
What does this do?
It helps individuals return back to their usual routine or optimal level of fitness. Providing strength, mobility, proprioceptive awareness, balance and co-ordination.
How does it help?
Research identifies how important the rehabilitation process is in helping regain function, therefore, we will give you all the education and advice required to help you get back on your feet.
How would this be used in a session?
We will always provide 'hands on' treatment alongside rehabilitation. The exercise element is what will change your tissue structure alongside therapeutic relief.
Mobilisations
What are they?
A gentle, controlled movement that helps a joint to move better. They can help to restore movement and function and achieve increased range of movement.
What do they do?
These movements can help reduce inflammation, increase mobility, aid blood flow, reduce pain/stiffness and settle the nervous system.
Kinesiology Taping
What is it?
A stretchy elastic therapeutic tape that is applied to the skin to support muscles and joints.
How does it help?
Reduces inflammation, restores proprioceptive feedback to help with movement, and reinforces confidence in your movement. It can help to improve local blood pressure and lymphatic flow providing confidence in aiding movement.
Dry Needling & Medical Acupuncture
What is it?
A technique using very thin needles into specific trigger points or a muscle which helps to reduce pain and improve movement.
What are the benefits to this?
Helps to reduce tightness in the muscle helping reduce 'knots', aids blood flow to the area of discomfort which promotes the healing process. This can have an analgesic effect on the injured area.
When is this used?
Needling can be used for various injuries; Lower back pain, muscle soreness, tightness, sports injuries, neural pain.
Sports Massage
What does it do?
Sports massage is a form of treatment that helps to increase blood flow, reduce tension, break down 'knots', increase range of movement, and aid mobility.
When is this useful?
If you are struggling with tension in your body, train often and feel that you require more mobility in your movement a sports massage will help.
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Dry Cupping
What does it do?
Helps to increase blood circulation and facilitates the healing process. The cups can help to reduce pain, tightness and restore range of movement.
What is it?
A suction that is created through cups with negative pressure pulling the skin and the underlying tissue upwards.
When should it be used?
In muscle tightness, myofascial pain, sports recovery, lower/mid and upper back pain.
Spinal Manipulations
What are spinal manipulations?
Pressure that is applied through the spinal processes to help reduction in stiffness.
When are they used?
If a client is suffering with limited range of movement, stiffness and uncomfortable through back/hips these may be used to aid recovery.
What do they do?
This technique can relieve pain, increase mobility, and promote the body's natural healing process, promoting faster recovery.
Shockwave Therapy
What is ESWT?
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy is a non invasive form of treatment. It lasts up to 6 minutes and 3-5 sessions is the recommended amount.
When is it used?
It is often used to treat tendinopathy (Achilles/patella) injuries, plantar fasciitis, Tennis and golfers elbow, chronic injuries and muscular pains.
What does the treatment do?
This treatment promotes blood flow, stimulates cell repair and helps to reduce pain.
What does it feel like?
ESWT can be a tender during the session and feel bruised 24-48 hours after treatment. This treatment will be done alongside other treatment modalities in clinic.
This treatment will be an additional supplement of £15 to the cost of your treatment.