Bedford

Our Bedford team of elite therapists ensure you are getting the very best care and treatment for your aches, pains and injuries. Our specialist approach focuses on what we call the “Patient Journey”. In the early stages our top priority is relieving your pain and turning your suffering into improving.
Once you’re pain free our therapists skills can really shine! We will work with you to understand the root cause of your issues, tailoring your rehab to make you fitter and stronger than ever, whilst reducing your risk of future issues!
This optimising and enhancing approach sets up our patients to set new goals and then smash them.

We have excellent, close working relationships with top consultants such as Mr Alistair Jepson, Mr Pierre Nasr, Mr Nick Birch, Mr Jason Auld, Mr Rajan Natarajan, Mr Phillip Edge, Professor Bill Ribbans, Mr David Stock, Mr Sameer Singh, Mr Edward Crawfurd, Mr Gregor Kerr, Mr Richard Mannion and many more, all from leading clinics and hospitals including BMI Three Shires, Northampton General Hospital, BMI Woodland Hospital Kettering and BMI Manor Hospital Biddenham Bedford. 

Our team engage in regular training sessions with these Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire Consultants to make sure we are up to date with all the latest procedures and advice available to ensure that you get the best possible care. We welcome referrals from consultants and liaise with them regularly to keep your treatment plan on track! We can also refer and recommend you to Consultants for their expert opinion or for surgical intervention should we feel it is appropriate to do so. 

Please see our Consultants testimonials page where you can hear their experiences of working with us. 

We are all about keeping your mind, body and soul as fit and healthy as possible and that is why we love to support local sports clubs, gyms and events. Bedford is a fantastic town with amazing opportunities for all! 

Ever fancied running but don’t know where to start? Why don’t you get cracking with the couch to 5k app, and then try one of the local Park Runs? The perfect way to start your Saturday mornings off with a bang! Bedford is very lucky to have not one, but two locations where you can get your new Park Run Personal Best! Bedford Park is a flat and fast course on tarmac paths, and Great Denham Parkrun is a mixture of tarmac and trail paths. We love working with runners of all abilities and are fortunate to have worked with some of the main Bedford running clubs such as the Bedford Harriers Athletic Club and the Great Denham Runners.

You’ll often find us supporting the Bedford Community at local sporting events such as the Bedford Race for Life, the Bedford River Festival and at lots of Health and Wellbeing events. 

Or perhaps you prefer being put through your paces in an exercise class or hitting the weights at the gym? Why not try one of our Bedford Gyms such as Towers Health & Racquets Club, the Pure gyms, or even ShireFit who are great. We have close working relationships with superb Personal Trainers all over Bedford and love working with gym go-ers to treat any aches, pains and injuries, or simply help them on their way to achieving their goals! 

We love getting to know local sports clubs and lots of Sports Clubs affiliations. If you are a local sports club and are interested in collaborating with us to get a sports club affiliation rate, contact us via email: bedford@backandbodyclinic.co.uk

We’re always enthusiastic to share our knowledge and experience with the community, and have done many educational talks for sports clubs etc. If you are interested in having one of our awesome team members come to talk you about injury prevention (and much more!), get in touch on: bedford@backandbodyclinic.co.uk 

Our Bedford therapist’s pride themselves on keeping up to date with the latest evidence-based practice through in-house training with the teams from across the Back and Body Clinics, as well as regular Continued Professional Development (CPD courses). This means we can offer gold standard services in Physiotherapy, Manual Therapy, Sport Massage, Exercise Prescription, Acupuncture, Shockwave, Biomechanics and Gait Analysis, Footscan, Joint Injections, Pilates, Pelvic Health, Mummy MOT and Imaging Referrals.

Soft tissue or joint injections are administered to painful joints affected by wear and tear or osteoarthritis. They are also used for tendon issues such as tendonitis or tendonopathy.

At the Towcester clinic we offer injections inolving corticosteroids, hyaluronic acid and more. Steroiud injections are great at treating any condition thath as an inflammatory component to the pain. For example osteoarthritis, tendinopathy, bursitis, damage to carilage or labrum synovitis and many more painful conditions.

The injections are performed using  Ultrasound for guidance and precision, by using this image guidance for accuracy and safety, the therapist can be confident the injectate is being delivered to the desired location.

Local anaesthetic is used on the injection point to make the procedure as comfortable as possible for you, some patients experience feelings of pressure as the fluid is injected however most patients are often surprised at how quick and comfortable the process is.

The injection is a long acting steroid which may take up to 2 weeks to start working. It is often common to not feel a huge benefit for the first day or two and some people may feel worse temporarily, but this should begin to settle within a week.

The procedure can provide you with a dramatic decrease in your symptoms, often the steroid injections are curative, however occasionally the effects are short term. It is safe to repeat the procedure if this happens.

Once the steroid starts taking effect, it can ease your symptoms for anywhere from two months to a year or longer depending on you as an individual. If you do feel the effects wearing off sooner than you would have liked, please don’t worry, get in touch with our team, there is often so much more we can do to help.

Your therapist will normally use between 2-16 needles which can stay in for up to twenty-five minutes. During the treatment your therapist may stimulate the needles by gently moving them. Acupuncture and dry needling should not be painful because the needles are fine and inserted quickly through the skin. However, some people will experience a pin-prick sensation. Once the needles are in place you may feel a mild ache, numbness, or heavy sensation around the needle. This should not be unpleasant. This is a sign that endorphins and other relieving chemicals are being released.

Acupuncture is effective in the treatment of:

• Migraines, neck disorders, tension type headaches , and peripheral joint osteoarthritis (Lee & Ernst 2011)
• Osteoarthritis – The Osteoarthritis Research Society International (Zhang et al. 2008)
• Chronic low back pain (Huffman 2007, Manheimer et al. 2005)
• The combination of acupuncture and conventional therapy was better than conventional therapy alone (Manheimer et al. 2005).