Towcester

Our professional team of dedicated therapists here at Towcester have the knowledge and experience to treat your condition and provide a hands-on service that is second to none! By utilising our bespoke ‘Patient Journey’ approach, we take you out of suffering into improving. But we don’t stop there! Using our expert assessment skills, we get to the root cause of your pain and provide a tailor-made rehab plan to optimise and enhance your performance/lifestyle whilst reducing the risk of future issues!

Towcester is a fantastic and growing town with lots of opportunities to take part in sport and/or lead a fit and healthy lifestyle. It has many sports teams from Rugby, Cycling and Hockey to Martial arts and more!

The Watermeadows is home to Towcester’s weekly Parkrun. A fun, friendly 5k community event for all abilities. We love to treat runners of all levels, helping you to work out those kinks and reach those PB’s!

Perhaps you’d prefer an indoor setting to get those workouts in? Towcester is home to many great independent Gyms offering exercise classes including Pilates, aerobics, body attack and for those of you feeling a little more adventurous, Clubercise!!

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: towcester@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: towcester@backandbodyclinic.co.uk

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 Three Shires, Saxon Clinic, Northampton General Hospital, Woodland Hospital Kettering and Manor Hospital Biddenham Bedford.

Our team engage in regular training sessions with these Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire 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.

Our Towcester 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).