Our ongoing health studies you can volunteer for
This research has been designed to test a new physiotherapy treatment for knee osteoarthritis called “Cognitive Muscular Therapy”. Rather than focus on muscle strengthening, the aim of this treatment is to teach patients to move with less muscle tension, and therefore give injured areas a chance to heal. Research has shown that osteoarthritis pain doesn’t […]
People with asthma can experience breathing difficulties for two reasons. The first is that tubes to the lungs become narrowed and swollen – this is treated using inhalers. The second reason is that the muscles around the lungs are not working properly. For example, the diaphragm is a big flat muscle under the lungs (see […]
The aim of the study is to understand how people move when they run and why people run the way they do. If we can understand running in more depth, we can provide immediate feedback to people who may not have optimal postural control and muscle coordination which may put them at greater risk of […]
The aim of the study is to test a treatment known as “Cognitive Muscular TherapyTM (CMT)” for long-COVID. This technique has been used previously to treat longstanding knee pain and persistent back pain and we are trying to find out if it works to treat other conditions like long-COVID. The aim of the treatment is […]
The aim of this study is to compare two physiotherapy treatments for people who experience persistent low back pain. Many people with back pain have tried standard physiotherapy on the NHS and not experienced meaningful improvements in their pain. However, current approaches tend to focus on strength exercises and often don’t include psychological techniques, which […]