by AStretch2001@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2025 | Fatigue & Sleep Blogs
For several years now as part of my routine assessment of all our AS and Axial SpA patients, I have been asking how well people felt that they had slept over the past week. I use a simple verbal VAS scale from zero to 10 with 10 being ‘I have slept wonderfully’ and...
by AStretch2001@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2025 | Fatigue & Sleep Blogs
January 2020: If I ask you to describe the overall level of fatigue/tiredness that you have experienced over the past week and to rate it between 0 –10, how would you answer this, and would you be satisfied with your response? We have been asking our patients to...
by AStretch2001@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2025 | Group Treatment Blogs
January 2021: January is normally a time to start afresh, set resolutions, goals and aspirations for the year ahead. As physios we motivate and encourage people who come to see us to exercise regularly. EULAR guidelines state: ‘Patients should be educated about axSpA...
by AStretch2001@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2025 | Group Treatment Blogs
A guest blog from Emily Graham and Vicky Lewis-Baldy, physiotherapists at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases December 2020: How to review a year that has been overtaken by a global pandemic? In September 2019 we moved from our beloved Mineral Hospital...
by AStretch2001@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2025 | Group Treatment Blogs
May 2020: Last year I did a blog about running a NASS group for 20 years. At that point I thought our group had tried a good variety of different exercises, mat work, Pilates, Nordic working, even rounders to name a few. However, recent weeks have seen such dramatic...
