Primary Care and Public Health Conference 2016 – Therapy
Primary Care and Public Health Conference is the UK’s leading event for GP’s, commissioning groups and all healthcare professionals working in primary care, community, public health, global and prison health. The conference is organised into different areas depending on your profession and interests and staff visited the Therapy programme.
Some interesting topics were on offer and of particular interest were “Achilles Tendinopathy – Advances in Rehabilitation” by Chris Myers and “Innovations in the Management of Tennis Elbow” by Val Jones.
Previous treatments of such conditions have involved the use of eccentric loading, rest and cryotherapy. Current research suggests that there are other modalities that should be considered first when dealing with these conditions, namely isometric contractions. With each condition, Achilles and lateral elbow (namely extensor carpi radialis brevis) tendinopathies, it is also worth knowing there is a difference in size of the muscles in each area i.e. Achilles tendon can take more load than the wrist extensors. Therefore exercises prescribed should reflect this difference (body weight compared to theraband) and intensity should be greater for the Achilles complex compared to the lateral elbow complex.
