Physiotherapy

Chartered Physiotherapists use their detailed knowledge of how joints and muscles work to assess the cause of pain or injury. This may be as a result of sports, arthritis, accidents, or just general wear and tear.

The aim of physiotherapy treatment is to promote healing and restore normal function and movement using a variety of different techniques. Typically these may include soft tissue mobilisation, electro therapy, and specific exercise programmes to improve your strength, flexibility and general health.

Physiotherapists can also offer ergonomic assessments in the work place and advice on manual handling. Physiotherapy aims to help you work towards a healthier and pain free lifestyle.

Helen Hall, MCSP
Chartered Physiotherapist

Trained at St Thomas’ Hospital, London and qualified in 1978, Helen developed an early interest in orthopaedics and back pain. After working in specialist teaching hospitals in London and Bristol, she moved to Fairford, to develop her own private practice which included the treatment of injured horses and greyhounds.

After completing a research study into falls in the elderly for the NHS, Helen returned to private practice in Swindon where she set up, and now manages, a musculo-skeletal physiotherapy clinic as well as providing treatment sessions at The Faringdon Clinic.

Helen’s interest encompasses all musculo-skeletal problems causing pain or poor function especially whiplash injury, children’s sports injuries, occupational health and work-related disorders.

She is a member of the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine, the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics, the Physiotherapy Pain Association and the Organisation of Chartered Physiotherapists in Private Practice (OCPPP).