Having health insurance can be the difference between recovering from an injury effectively and efficiently through a trusted physiotherapy practice, or relying on lengthy waiting times through the NHS.

Chronic knee pain is the reoccurring/long term pain, inflammation or sensitivity in one or both of your knees. This is pain that stops people doing a lot of activities in their everyday lives.

There are cases of knee pain that can be caused by an injury or accident and be just as painful but can heal without treatment over time.  Chronic knee pain very rarely goes away without treatment.

Tom Goom, our Clinical Lead at the Physio Rooms, is a Running Injury Specialist and expert in gait analysis. He teaches other Physiotherapists around the country on his extremely popular Running Repairs Course and has been consulted by leading researchers on the topic. Today he shares his views with us on running gait analysis.

Why it’s important and where to get it.

As the days shorten it’s important to make sure we’re getting enough of the sunshine vitamin. It plays a key role in muscle and bone health – important for injury repair and prevention.

Here’s what we know.