1st Reading Sports Injury Clinic

About Us

Experienced Physiotherapist. Jill Wigmore-Welsh Msc has over 30 years hands on experience in treating pain, sport injuries, road accident, and rehabilitation. Registered with all insurers she also provides emergency advice by phone. Jill is additionally qualified as a Hypnotherapist, trainer in Neuro-Linguistic-Programming, Feldenkrais Method, and is a Life Coach. Many people she works with have issues not usually associated with Physiotherapy.

Tense shoulders and headaches

Just this week three people have contacted me, to ask for help with their headaches and neck stiffness.Headaches are something which can really be helped by hands on treatment.When they each came in for an assessment, I picked up that all of them have one shared habit. They all work long hours, and spend a lot of that time sitting using a keyboard. One of them told me she sits at home chatting to friends on Facebook in her free time, and another runs a web design business in his 'free time', which involves up to 3 hours an evening sitting using a laptop. As I palpated around their neck and shoulders, I could feel the build up of tension in the upper neck muscles and shoulders was intense. Within their muscles were trigger points. Local thickened areas of tension, which can feel like a solid band. These solid changed areas of muscles soften and almost appear to dissolve with deep tissue massage. 30 minutes working all around the neck, shoulders, and upper arms was enough to reduce the texture of the muscles to soft gelly. With the muscle spasm reduced I was then able to mobilise the neck joints, to give them the freedom and flexibility they wanted. A few exercise taught to encourage general flexibility, advice on relaxing, taking more exercise completed the first sessionAbout 3 or 4 visits over 4 weeks is usually enough to make the changes, and then perhaps a follow up session every month or six weeks, will keep those tension headaches away

Specialist Services

Sports Injury Clinic, Sports Specific Movement Analyses,

Trade Bodies / Associations

Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports & Exercise, The Vocational Rehabilitation Association, Organisation of Chartered Physiotherapists in Private Practice, Federation of Small Business

Trading Since

1988

Payment methods accepted

• Cash
• Cheque
• PayPal

Other Services

• Free Parking
• Open 24 Hours
• Customer Service / Helpline
• Price Match
• Customer Loyalty Schemes
• Late Opening
• Customer Toilets

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