Our musculoskeletal physiotherapy team provides an evidence based approach to assessment and management which is tailored to each individual's needs.
Physiotherapy is a health care profession concerned with human function, movement and maximising potential. It uses physical approaches to promote, maintain and restore physical, psychological and social well-being. We help our patients to understand their condition, prevent recurrences and learn how to actively manage it.
There are many things you can do to self-manage your condition or your own bone, joint or muscle pain.
For more information about CLCH's musculoskeletal service (MSK) and the integrated community musculoskeletal service (ICMSK), please see the following:
We have collated, below, some of the best online advice and information sheets .to support your health and wellbeing. There are some general resources in addition to condition-specific information.
General advice
- CLCH patient information card on managing tendon pain
- CLCH patient information card on the management of soft tissue injury
- CLCH patient information card on healthy body - live well
- Advice on being active is important for musculoskeletal pain from Moving Medicine
- Easy to read physical activity guidelines for children, adults, pregnancy and for those with disability
- Handy guide on managing your pain from Pain Toolkit
- Get Active (low level exercises)
- Healthy Body (low level exercises)
- Healthy Body (high level exercises)
Falls advice
- Guide on falls and fragility fractures from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Guide on staying steady from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Resources from the charity Versus Arthritis
- Advice on Osteoarthritis
- Advice on Osteoporosis
- Advice on Gout
- Advice on Psoriatic arthritis
Lower back pain
- CLCH patient information card (with images) on back facts
- Versus Arthritis advice on back pain
- Back pain myth busters from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Information cards in different languages on Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) from Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP)
Foot and ankle pain
- CLCH patient information card on plantar heel pain
- CLCH patient information card (with images) on plantar heel pain
- CLCH patient information card (with images) on Achilles heel pain
- Advice on foot and ankle pain from Versus Arthritis
Hip pain
- Versus Arthritis advice on hip pain
- Versus Arthritis advice on osteoarthritis of the hip
- ESCAPE Pain from Enabling Self-management and Coping with Arthritic Pain using Exercise (ESCAPE)
- CLCH patient information card on greater trochanteric pain syndrome
- CLCH patient information card (with images) on greater trochanteric pain syndrome
Knee pain
- CLCH patient information card on meniscal lesions
- CLCH patient information card (with images) on meniscal pain
- CLCH patient information card (with images) on osteoarthritic knee
- CLCH patient information card (with images) on knee cap pain
- Versus Arthritis advice on knee osteoarthritis
- Versus Arthritis advice on knee replacement surgery
- Versus Arthritis advice on patellofemoral pain syndrome, also known as knee-pain-in young adults
- ESCAPE Pain information from Enabling Self-management and Coping with Arthritic Pain using Exercise (ESCAPE)
Shoulder pain
Neck pain
- Advice on neck pain from Versus Arthritis
- Advice on neck pain from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Exercises to allievate neck pain from the Neck Gym
Wrist and hand pain
- Advice on carpal tunnel syndrome from Versus Arthritis
- Advice on managing hand pain from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- NHS patient advice on hand pain
- NHS patient advice on wrist pain
- Advice on hand disorders from British Society for Surgery of the Hand
Elbow pain
- Advice on elbow pain from Versus Arthritis
- Advice on elbow pain from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Pelvic health
- Advice on pregnancy related pelvic girdle pain from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Advice on getting fit for birth from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Advice on exercise and advice after childbirth from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Advice on exercise and advice after pregnancy from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- National guidance on physical activity for pregnant women
- National information card (with images) on physical activity for women following childbirth
- Advice on pelvic floor exercises for women from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Advice on pelvic floor exercises for men from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Advice on prolapse from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Advice on relaxation strategies from Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- NHS patient advice on mindfulness
- Advice for women on easy stretches to relax the pelvis
Our services sees patient registered with a Barnet GP or residing in the borough of Barnet and with a musculoskeletal condition.
Patients can be referred by their GP, hospital consultant or other healthcare professional.
- Phone: 020 8349 7509
- Email: clcht.mskphysiotherapy@nhs.net
This innovative service delivers musculoskeletal health at various sites across Barnet. We work closely with GPs and hospital services to offer our patients a seamless pathway of care.
The team comprises
- Advanced practitioner physiotherapists who specialise in shoulder/other upper limb conditions/lower limb/spine
- Consultant physiotherapists
- Pelvic health specialist
- Musculoskeletal physiotherapists
- Access to diagnostics MRI, x-ray, phlebotomy and ultrasound scans
Conditions that require to be under the care of the GP, orthopaedic or rheumatology services such as cancer, those requiring surgery, fractures, may have an inflammatory conditions or need an accident and emergency assessment.
Phone: 020 8349 7509
Therapies Department, Edgware Community Hospital
- Address: Burnt Oak Broadway, HA8 0AD
- Opening times:
- Monday to Tuesday: 8am to 8pm
- Wednesday to Thursday: 8am to 5:30pm
- Friday: 8am to 4.30pm
- Saturday (Every other week): 9am to 1pm
Therapies Department, Finchley Memorial Hospital
- Address: Finchley Memorial Hospital, Granville Road, London, N12 0JE
- Opening times:
- Monday to Tuesday: 8am to 8pm
- Wednesday to Thursday: 8am to 5.30pm
- Friday: 8am to 4.30pm
- Saturday (Every other week): 9am to 1pm
East Barnet Health Centre
- Address: 149 East Barnet Rd, London, EN4 8QZ
- Opening times: 8am to 5.30pm (Wednesdays only)