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City Physiotherapy – Adelaide Physio 

Read about treatment and exercise advice from the team at City Physiotherapy in Adelaide. 

We provide you with an extensive variety of physiotherapy topics and practical advice to assist you to get better as quickly as possible. 

We want to educate and inform you about your body, and how physiotherapy can elevate the quality of your everyday life.

 Visit our treatments page to see our full list of treatments, and scroll to find our latest blog posts.

  • Top Tips to Reduce Lower Back Pain

    27 January 2022

    What causes lower back pain?   The lower back comprises the lumbar spine, providing our bodies with support, strength, and flexibility. The spine connects bones, joints, nerves, ligaments, and muscles that all work together, which unfortunately make it susceptible to injury.  The lower back supports the spinal column and the weight of the upper body. […] Tags: Back Pain, dry needling, Lower Back Pain, remedial massage

  • What Does A Physiotherapist Do?

    16 January 2022

    What is physiotherapy? Physiotherapy is an allied health profession that helps patients through movement and physical treatment methods in addition to addressing the individual factors that contribute to a patient’s pain story. As physiotherapists are registered primary healthcare practitioners, you don’t need a referral to make an appointment. Physical methods of physiotherapy may include hands […] Tags: dry needling, injury, remedial massage, treatment, wellbeing

  • Your Top 5 Questions About Dry Needling Answered

    14 January 2022

    1. What is Dry Needling?  Dry needling is a popular method of easing muscle pain. While somewhat related to acupuncture, dry needling is very different in practice, specifically targeting sore and tired muscles for the relief of pain, and to stimulate healing soft tissue injuries.   2. How Does Dry Needling Work? Practitioners will insert […] Tags: arthritis, dry needling, headaches, injury treatment, muscle pain, sports injuries

  • Could Gluteal Tendinopathy Be Affecting You?

    6 October 2021

    While hip pain can be debilitating by itself, gluteal tendinopathy can also affect other areas of the body, with pain felt in the buttock, lower back, knee, thigh, or groin as a result of hip pain. This will depend on whether the pain is caused from within the hip itself, or from the hip joint […] Tags: dry needling, glutes, hip pain, muscle pain, remedial massage

  • Plantar Fasciopathy and Heel Pain

    27 November 2019

    Plantar fasciopathy is pain and inflammation located in the bottom of the heel. It arises due to changes to the collagen fibres, blood vessels, and the nerves in the tissue supporting the arch of your foot. Calcification is often present too and might be in the form of a heel spur. However, the presence of […] Tags: dry needling, foot pain, heel pain, muscle pain, plantar fasciopathy, remedial massage

  • Spinal Stenosis

    31 March 2019

    Can Physiotherapy help Spinal Stenosis? About 80% of people will have back or neck pain during their lifetimes. One cause of back or neck pain can be spinal stenosis. What is Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the openings in your vertebrae and spinal column that your spinal nerves and spinal cord travel […] Tags: arthritis, Back Pain, dry needling, exercise, Lower Back Pain, spinal pain

  • The Piriformis Muscle

    27 February 2019

    Do you have pain in your buttock? Low Back Pain? Your Piriformis muscle may be the culprit. Your Piriformis muscle is a small, deep, buttock muscle. Many of us have a tight piriformis muscle which can cause pain issues in your gluteal/buttock region as it passes right over your sciatic nerve. When your piriformis becomes […] Tags: dry needling, glute pain, Lower Back Pain, muscle pain, remedial massage, sciatica

  • Tennis Elbow – Dry Needling

    29 May 2018

    Dry Needling for Elbow Pain You play golf and your elbow hurts. You play tennis and your elbow hurts. You’re at the gym doing push-ups and your elbow hurts. Gardening? Elbow hurts. Computer? Elbow hurts. The list goes on. You may say to yourself, “I don’t remember injuring my elbow”. You’re probably right. You may […] Tags: dry needling, elbow pain, tennis elbow

  • Will Dry Needling Work for You?

    13 June 2017

    Dry Needling Clinic |  Are you fed up with being injured?  Trying to cure or fix an injury by sticking needles in it may seem odd but it actually works. Dry needling is similar to acupuncture in that it involves inserting needles into your skin near the point of your injury or pain. What is […] Tags: dry needling, dry needling clinic, dry needling treatment

  • Dry Needling

    26 September 2011

    Dry needling is widely used by all physiotherapists at City Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic and has become an increasingly popular technique for treating a range of musculoskeletal conditions, including acute and chronic neck pain, back pain, tennis elbow, runner’s knee, arthritis, headaches and migraine, Achilles tendinopathies and many other conditions. Dry needling is based […] Tags: acupuncture, back, dry needles, dry needling, dry needling treatment, elbow, knee, neck, needles, tendinopathies

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