What is an acute injury? What is a Chronic injury?
Acute injuries: 1-2 weeks after injury.
Sub-acute injuries: 2-8 weeks post injury
Chronic injuries: any injury where recovery is longer than 8-12 weeks.
This classification is used with all injuries. The earlier we see you, the quicker your recovery will be.
Conditions we commonly see are:
Spinal injuries
- Neck pain
- Upper back pain
- Low back pain
- Nerve entrapment/ impingement
- Spinal arthritis
- Disc injuries
- Sciatica
Shoulder injuries
- Rotator cuff injury/ tear
- AC joint injury
- Biceps tendonitis
- Bursitis
- Arthritis
- Frozen Shoulder
Elbow/ wrist injuries
- Tennis/ golfers elbow
- Ligament strains
- Fractures
- Tendonitis
Hip/ pelvis injuries
- Arthritis
- Hip impingement
- Gluteal dysfunction
- SIJ pain
Knee injuries
- ACL injuries
- Ligament injury
- Arthritis
- Tendonitis
- Meniscal injuries
- Fluid on the knee
Ankle/Foot injuries
- Ankle sprain
- Fractures
- Tendonitis
- Achilles tendon pain
- Plantar fasciitis
