Rochester Lodge Back Pain Clinic Weston-super-Mare.

A list of conditions which may present at the clinic in any given week, which may help when considering whether a patient is a candidate for Osteopathic or Chiropractic treatment:

Cervical Spine

Wry neck

Disc Lesions

Calamitous Rheumatoid Arthritis Lesion

Brachial Neuralgia

Whiplash

Thoracic Spine

Whiplash

Prolapse Intervertebral disc

Musculoligamentous spasms/strains

Referred pain from neck

Other conditions commonly seen

Tendonitis

Sports injuries

Pure muscle spasm (often stress related)

Muscle Strain

Ligament sprain (interspinous, supraspinous, iliolumbar)

Apophysitis (facet joint pain)

Internal disc prolapse

Disc Bulge

Actual herniation (of disc jelly)

Sequestration

Sacro-iliac joint

Fracture—compression, osteoporosis

Sciatica

Femoralgia

Nerve root pain due to lateral stenosis

Anomalous strains

Coccydynia

 The Gait Scan allows the practitioner to assess a patient's foot posture accurately in the following ways:

The Static Scan can measure relative pressure loads for the right and left foot, large differentials in % may indicate a leg length disparity. Different colours on the scan indicate different levels of contact of the foot with the scan plate.

The Dynamic Scan illustrates the flow of pressure over the full length of the step and is recorded at a rate of  300 frames a second and will indicate, overpronation, oversupination, pes planus and other potential foot dysfunction.

The Squat Scan enables the practitioner to observe excessive rotation of the lower limbs, abnormal tracking of the patella and overpronation or oversupination of the subtalar joint as the knees bend. The scans can be viewed in 2D, 3D and Syncro views.