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089. Combating hand wrist injuries part 2 - Objective assessment with Ian Gatt

Physio Edge podcast with David Pope

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How to Mobilize a Joint to Reduce Pain and Stiffness

Sometimes it's like a little trial treatment so you know you get them to the position of stiffness or pain. down at the hand-on wrist and do you have anything to identify if you might have the joint involved up at that proximal radio on the joint. A muscle in itself shouldn't be tight on its own and there's some form of neurological underlying issue going on so i tend to link that there's a big link with the joint that it works around. When we mobilize the joint we still don't fully understand what we are actually doing but we do know that somehow we're influencing the higher senses of our brain with the reflex loop at the spinal cord.

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