What is Shock Wave Therapy?

What is Shock Wave Therapy? A shock wave in medical terminology is a sonic pulse that can pass through the surface of a body without injury to act upon the tissues below. It was first used in the area of medicine by urologists in the 1980s in the disintegration of kidney stones and was adapted…

Coming soon . . . the PhysioCare App!

PhysioCare are delighted to announce that we have won the Digital Boost initiative and have been awarded a €9,000 prize package to work with both Smart Fit Apps and Paypal to increase our online presence. This means that we can take the tentative steps into developing a PhysioCare app for our patients and anyone experiencing…

Do Orthoses Work?

UK podiatrist Heidi Meckler investigates – Do Orthoses Work? The other day I came across a very new research paper called “The Myth of Growing Pains” by Sciaroni & Hight in the April/May edition of “Podiatry Management”.  They basically discussed the phenomena of growing pains and the ideas which have been bounced back and forth over…