No accident. No operation. It started quietly and never left.
Frozen shoulder, tendinopathy, tennis and golfer's elbow, mechanical neck pain, plantar heel pain and the stiffness left behind by a cast or a sling. These arrive without an event, so nobody books them in early — and they are the ones that respond best to hands, load and time applied in the right order.
You don't need a diagnosis to start — the board reads your records and answers in writing. These are the situations that usually bring people to this page.
These are the cases most often told to rest and wait. Rest is what makes a tendon worse — the plan here is graded load with a date to review it, not an instruction to be patient.
If your question isn't here, ask it directly — a human replies in minutes, in 8 languages.
Longer than anyone wants — it moves through a painful phase, a stiff phase and a thawing phase, and the treatment differs in each. What we can say at the first visit is which phase you are in and what the next six weeks should look like.
Not completely. Tendons respond to graded load and get worse with prolonged rest. The skill is in choosing the load that helps rather than aggravates, and adjusting it on measurement.
You leave with a written home programme, and your therapist reviews you on protected video calls on a fixed rhythm. The numbers keep being collected.
Nothing. The board's first review is free, and your programme — sessions, reviews, home plan — is quoted fixed and in writing before it starts.
Most cases cross institutes. These often travel together — and the board reads them as one case.
Send what you have — scans, letters, or just the story so far. A senior consultant first-reads within 24 hours; the board answers in writing within 72 hours of your records being complete — free, before you commit to anything.