Western News: September 13, 2016
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WESTERN [Edition NEWS datE]<br />
Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 21<br />
HEALTH & BEAUTY<br />
Joint pain: Do I have arthritis or<br />
could it be mainly my muscles?<br />
The team at Physical sense in sydenham sees clients with a range<br />
of symptoms but many of their middle-aged and senior clients<br />
visit complaining of pain in one of their joints.<br />
PhysiotheraPist ietje van<br />
stolk suggests that a major part of the<br />
pain could be due to muscle pain rather<br />
than simply arthritis. “even if an x-ray<br />
shows arthritis, the reason for the pain<br />
may be the muscles around the joint,”<br />
she explains. The images show how<br />
a muscle knot (the crosses) in a back<br />
muscle can give hip pain (aches and pain<br />
are the red areas in the drawings), a knot<br />
in a muscle on the back of the shoulder<br />
blade can give a deep pain in the front<br />
of the shoulder and a muscle knot all the<br />
way near the groin can give an ache in<br />
the knee (especially at night in bed).<br />
ietje recalls one case where an 89<br />
year old client with severe arthritis who<br />
walked with a stick, told her, “i will<br />
end up in a wheelchair, i cannot put<br />
any weight through my right leg due to<br />
pain in my hip and buttock”. “Within<br />
4 treatments, she was walking with<br />
her stick but without the severe pain,”<br />
says ietje. “The arthritis was one of the<br />
factors that made her muscles spasm but<br />
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the other was that older people move<br />
less and the flexed position the hip is<br />
in when we sit is particularly bad for<br />
the hip.” ietje is happy with the fact that<br />
although the client was 89 and could<br />
have been “given up on” or told to live<br />
with the pain, she made a difference to<br />
her health and wellbeing.<br />
The same lack of movement can<br />
be the reason for your knee pain or<br />
your shoulder pain and the same few<br />
treatments could make a huge difference<br />
for you.<br />
at Physical sense, hands-on<br />
techniques (massage and triggerpoint<br />
deactivation techniques) are used<br />
to release the muscles. The client<br />
also gets a home exercise program<br />
designed to mobilize and stretch the<br />
joint, strengthen the important core<br />
muscles and increase general strength<br />
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