Our Treatment Options
Phyisotherapy
We are an award-winning physiotherapy practice based in North Dublin. In 2024 we were nominated for and won Physiotherapy Clinic of the Year County Dublin, for the Irish Enterprise awards. We are absolutely delighted with this.
We pride ourselves in providing expert care in our patients whole journey. We are there your patients after they have left our care for any further queries or advice. Our patients are at the heart of everything we do and achieving the best outcomes for every patient is what keeps us going.
Your First Appointment
Manual Therapy / Sport Massage
Stiff and tight joints and muscles will benefit from hugely from a variety of advanced physiotherapy specific techniques. Our highly skilled physiotherapists will choose from a range of methods tailored to your needs to manipulate joints to relive discomfort and optimise movement. Sports massage can be especially beneficial to relieve tension and post activity fatigue. At Fingal Physiotherapy our experts can work on fascia, muscles, tendons and ligaments to relieve pain, optimise ability and ultimately get you performing better.
Acupuncture / Dry Needling
At Fingal Physiotherapy we hold postgraduate qualifications and training in Acupuncture for Musculoskeletal conditions and dry needling. Dry needling can be used to decreased hypertonicity in muscles, for trigger point therapy and myofascial pain. We use acupuncture based on Traditional Chinese Medicine meridians to decreased pain. However both dry needling and acupuncture can be used to ultimately decrease your pain, improve your mobility, contractability of a muscle and improve performance.
Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (EWST)
This is the latest and one of the most advanced non-invasive technologies that offers exceptional treatment for muscle and injuries. It uses soundwave impulses that are directed into the damaged tissue using a compressor, which promote self-healing, i.e it encourages the body to heal itself. It offers an alternative to anti-inflammatory medicines traditionally used as pain relief in these situations.
EWST can help with a broad range of injuries, including:
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Rotator cuff tendon
- Plantar fasciitis
- Chronic plantar fasciitis
- Patellar tendinopathy
- Shoulder Tendon pain
- Calcific tendinitis
- lateral epicondylitis (Golfers Elbow)
- Gluteal tendon pain
- Chronic Trigger point pain
- Running overload injuries
Strength assessments / fitness testing
Whether your goal is to recover from injury, enhance your performance, or prevent injury strength assessments and / fitness testing can be of great benefit. We can identify areas that need development and have an objective marker to monitor changes and advancements in specific areas.
At Fingal physiotherapy we a variety of methods to test your strength, including the use of hand held dynamometer, state of the art sensory software and 1RM lifts.
Using a combination of tools we can accurately measure a huge range of variables including : proprioception (balance and control), power, speed, and strength (full, explosive and reactive strength), peak force, rate of force development, muscle endurance and importantly identify muscle or leg / arm imbalances.
Injury prevention
At Fingal Physiotherapy we pride ourselves in our Sports Medicine background. We know that one of the biggest risks of getting an injury is a history of previous injury. Therefore, injury prevent is paramount. We want to stop you getting an injury in the first place and if you have attained an injury, we want to prevent it from returning. The phase prevention rather than cure has great steed.
Depending on your age, activity level, sport and goals we will select a range of physical qualities assess and put in place a treatment plan or rehab program with the aim of preventing further injury
