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Have I been to a bad physio? Any good ones in Mayo/Sligo Area?

  • 17-03-2011 7:02pm
    #1
    Trooperboyo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭


    Okay first off I've gone to a local physio with IT Band syndrome which is linked to posterior shin splints(flat feet). Any ways the physio said something that really struck me, more or less in these words "I would tell patients to stop running if they get pains from running". Is this a sign of a good or bad physio? This was my first time to a physio and running is extremely important to me.

    To be fair the physio did give me excercises to build up the inside of my legs and to strech my IT bands, however I found more streches on the internet. The pysio probably didn't have much runners I guess. Does anyone know any phsios that specialise in running injuries? I'm trying to find someone who would make inserts for my flat feet too.


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  • #2
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    I went to a physio in SLigo before, I can't remember her name but she was on the main road between the Sligo Park hotel and the GAA stadium. She was recommended to me by my GP in Donegal at the time, who was the team doctor for the Donegal footballers and sent a lot of them to her, apparently she worked with the Irish Olympic team too. Sorry I can't remember her name, but if you can find out I'd recommend her for sports injuries.


  • #3
    eilo1
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    I would be very unhappy if a physio told me that. Its not very professional and certainly isnt taking the patients social history into consideration!


  • #4
    chocgirl
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    Are you sure it was a physio you went to? If it was privately most physios would be able to make orthotics for you and would suggest them if they thought you required them.

    Just be aware as well that advice that you don't want to hear isn't necessarily bad advice.

    Having said that by all means if you're not happy seek a second opinion.


  • #5
    Trooperboyo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭Trooperboyo


    Zzippy wrote: »
    I went to a physio in SLigo before, I can't remember her name but she was on the main road between the Sligo Park hotel and the GAA stadium. She was recommended to me by my GP in Donegal at the time, who was the team doctor for the Donegal footballers and sent a lot of them to her, apparently she worked with the Irish Olympic team too. Sorry I can't remember her name, but if you can find out I'd recommend her for sports injuries.

    That sounds like an A1 physio! Nice one zzippy, I'll look into that.
    chocgirl wrote: »
    Are you sure it was a physio you went to? If it was privately most physios would be able to make orthotics for you and would suggest them if they thought you required them.

    Just be aware as well that advice that you don't want to hear isn't necessarily bad advice.

    It was a private physio and was given a contact for an orthodist but won't be able to go to them due to location and my work schedule at the moment. I guess I was just a bit peed of to be paying for a session and to be told that, I mean I could have just stayed at home and did just that. But to be fair they probably weren't used to running injuries (even though it said it was sports injury specialist:confused:), oh well.


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