Home Visit Service Available at PhysioCare PhysioCare offer a Home Visit service whereby one of our Chartered Physiotherapists can travel to you and treat you or a loved one in the comfort of your home. Treatment lasts for 45 minutes and aims to help patients get and feel better if they cannot make it into…
Pilates During Pregnancy Pilates is a toning and conditioning exercise program that concentrates on building a strong and efficient ‘centre’ of abdominal, spinal and pelvic floor muscles. Pilates during pregnancy can maintain pelvic floor strength, prevent incidence of pelvic girdle pain and low back pain. It also helps with relaxation and helps in labour preparation.…
New Year Fitness, New Resolutions, New Pains? It’s that time of year again when we all set new goals and begin our new year fitness journey to achieve them. It is also that time of year when little niggles rear their ugly head and impede us from achieving our goals. We all start the new…
Five Reasons That People Don’t Go to the Gym or Exercise Have you ever thought that you wanted to start attending the gym? Maybe you have something in your future that you want to look and feel great for? Or have you seen ‘gym people’ and thought you wanted the same results? Maybe you’ve seen…
Six Guidelines to Meet your New Year Health Goals To meet your new year health goals, here are six guidelines that we use in our clinics with every injury and can also be applied to a successful and healthy start to 2017. 1. Set SMART Goals Goals need to be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and (have a)…
Thinking of Starting Beginners Pilates in Dublin? What you need to know Starting a new activity or hobby can be daunting. Often it involves putting ourselves outside of our comfort zone which can be a bit intimidating. Exercise comes easy to some but to others it can be completely alien. Whether you have some or…
Pregnancy Pain and Physiotherapy Treatment It is well researched that most women at some stage during their pregnancy or after giving birth will experience some element of musculoskeletal type pain. These symptoms are often accepted as normal and not referred for any further intervention. More emphasis is now being placed on pre and post-natal care…
Male Pilates Classes – The Benefits [one_half]Pilates is often commonly mis-perceived as a form of exercise for women. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Pilates focuses on increasing an individual’s strength, flexibility and control, all of which are key for both men and women alike. By developing these areas, we can learn to move and…
Physiotherapy Christmas Opening Hours 2016 The team at PhysioCare would like to wish you and your loved ones a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year. Here we have our Christmas opening hours for each of our clinics and a reminder that you can purchase PhysioCare gift vouchers to give as Christmas presents too for use…
How Pilates is Beneficial for All Clinical and Physiotherapy led Pilates classes can be beneficial for everyone. They are accessible for all ages and all levels of fitness whether you have attended classes before or not. Men and women enjoy the benefits of Pilates from functional rehabilitation for specific injuries to specific muscle strengthening for…