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Physiotherapy at Ashford and St Peter’s

• Physiotherapy at Ashford and St Peter’s

Upper Limb Class

The Upper limb Class series is for patients that have shoulder, upper back and neck pain and includes education to strategies to successfully self-manage living well upper limb pain.

• Upper Limb Class

Advanced Lower Limb

This is for patients over 17 years of age with ankle, knee, hip musculoskeletal problems which is impacting their sport or daily activities. Also, for late stage Post ACL Reconstruction.

• Lower Limb Exercise and Education
• Advanced Lower Limb Class

Back to Fitness

The Back to Fitness class series is designed to provide exercises suitable for helping improving mechanical low back pain by increasing functional strength and mobility of your back plus education to help better understand low back pain and strategies to successfully self-manage living well with back pain.

• Back to Fitness Class – Stress and Flare Ups
• Back to Fitness Class – Healthy Living
• Back to Fitness Class – Pacing and Modifying Activities
• Back to Fitness Class – What matters to you
• Back to Fitness Class – Challenging thoughts and behaviours about pain
• Back to Fitness Class – Spine Anatomy and Why Things Hurt
• Back to Fitness Class – Exercises

Dynamic Conditioning

This is for patients with movement control impairment resulting in mechanical low back pain. Providing strength and mobility exercises to help reduce pain within the lumbopelvic region of a muscular nature.

• Dynamic Conditioning Class – Exercises

Fun 2 Be Fit

This is for patients who may be generally deconditioned due to arthritis or lack of strength due to inactivity or prolonged hospital stay.

• Fun 2 Be Fit Class – Exercises

Lower Limb Exercise and Education

Lower Limb Exercise Class is designed to help increase your strength, endurance and mobility of your lower limb joints: knees; hips and ankles. It is targeted towards self-management of arthritic pain but anyone with longstanding pain may benefit.

• Lower Limb Exercise and Education Class – Exercises
• Lower Limb Exercise and Education Class – Stress and Flare Ups
• Lower Limb Exercise and Education Class – Healthy Living
• Lower Limb Exercise and Education Class – Pacing and Modifying Activities
• Lower Limb Exercise and Education Class – What matters to you
• Lower Limb Exercise and Education Class – Anatomy and Pain Lower Limb

Mindful Movement

The Mindful Movement Class is designed with the propose that mindfulness practice within physiotherapy will prove useful as a self-empowerment tool, as well as an adjunct to physiotherapeutic intervention for those with persistent pain with coexisting fatigue, low mood, and stress. It is mind body exercise and incorporates elements of Yoga, Tai chi, Qigong to offer benefit for those managing their persistent pain while improving function and supporting from a psychological perspective.

• Mindful Movement
• Relaxation Guide – An Introduction to Relaxation
• Relaxation Guide – Body Scan
• Relaxation Guide – Light
• Relaxation Guide – Nidra
• Relaxation Guides – Progressive Relaxation
• Relaxation Guide – Notice the Breath
• The Women’s Health Class – Pelvic Health Physiotherapy

ASPH Hand Therapy

• Hand Therapy: Joint Protection and Activity Modification
• Wrist Exercises Post Wrist Fracture

Mindfulness for Deep Muscle Relaxation and Pain

• Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing
• Body Scan Meditation Jon Kabat Zinn
• 25m Guided Body Scan Meditation

Keep Moving Videos

Keep moving class is a gentle exercise session, which can be completed standing or sitting, to help you keep mobile when opportunities to move are limited. The class focuses on everyday functional exercises to get the whole body moving to increase your strength and fitness.

• Useful videos – The Pain Toolkit (Link opens website in new window)
• Mindful Movement – ASPH Physiotherapy
• 25m Guided Body Scan Meditation ASPH Physiotherapy