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Treat Your Own Leg Pain - DVD


In this easy to follow, informative DVD, leading Chartered Physiotherapist Judith Pitt-Brooke shares her tried and tested leg pain self-treatment programme for people of all ages and fitness levels


This DVD will help you understand the cause of your leg pain. It offers a precise and specific exercise programme to help manage and recover from a hip, knee or ankle problem. It is perfect for the self treatment and prevention of common leg problems, such as knee pain, swollen ankles, muscle strains, swollen ankle, sprained ankle, shin splints, hamstring strain, groin strain, thigh strain and arthritis.


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This DVD is about self-help - taking expert advice and learning how simple exercises can make all the difference to your feeling of well being, whether you are suffering with a sudden leg pain, such as a hamstring strain, or a gradually occurring leg pain such as shin splints. Whatever the cause, this DVD will offer you a precise and specific exercise programme to help you manage and recover from your leg problem. It will also give you clear guidance on the signs of a more severe problem that should be investigated further.

This DVD will help you understand whether you have a sprain or strain of any of the muscles or joints in the leg, or whether you may be suffering with an age-related condition. You will find help and guidance on self-diagnosis for most common sport and activity-related injuries, as well as joint by joint guidance for aches and pains that have come on more gradually, perhaps as you are getting older. Whatever the cause, it will offer you a precise and specific exercise programme to help you manage and recover from your problem. It will also give you clear guidance on the signs of a more severe problem that should be investigated further.


If you haven't injured yourself or developed aches and pains in the legs, but are aware that you are not as flexible and nimble footed as you could be, or used to be, refer to the Prevent Pain Section. In the same section you will find advice if you simply want to look after yourself, preserve agility, leg strength and flexibility, by focusing on the hip and thigh or calf, ankle and foot. Here, whatever your age or fitness level, you'll find the means by which you can maintain or re-find your youthful freedom of movement.

Using crutches or sticks, but not sure of the safety dos and don'ts? Have you been given sticks or crutches and can't remember how to use them? Or have you resorted to using a stick because your leg has become so painful? Whatever the case, it is important to use sticks and crutches in the correct way to avoid accidents or developing other injuries. You'll find some useful advice about how to do just this in the Extras section.


Help Yourself at Home for the treatment and prevention of conditions such as ankle sprain, knee injury and arthritis. If you have had a sports' injury and you are returning to sport, it is extremely important to prepare yourself properly. In the Extras section, you can watch Bjorn go through his paces, showing all the things you need to do to help your return to any running-related sport following an injury, however mild or severe.