Cilliers & Swart Physiotherapists
Cilliers & Swart Physiotherapy represents a group of knowledgable and dynamic therapist practising physiotherapy in Pretoria. Each Physiotherapist brings their own unique interests and skills into a well-established practice.
Physiotherapy is a medical profession that understands pain and pathology on a cellular level. At Cilliers & Swart Physiotherapy, our goal is to improve your performance to get you back to your regular routine as soon and as safely as possible.
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Conditions
We provide an accurate medical diagnosis of your condition. To view a list of conditions we deal with on a daily bases…
Treatment
We are equipped with a variety of equipment & skills to treat most conditions, here are a few treatment methods we use…
Pain
Pain is your body’s way of telling you something is wrong. We’ve written these articles for you to know more about your pain…
Areas of pain that we treat
The following are links to articles we’ve written to educate prospective patients about the conditions and injuries that we treat as physiotherapists.
Lower Back Pain
Causes of Lower back pain treatment: muscle, joint, nerve, disc, tendon. Physiotherapist look at the symptoms, types of pain. Some lower back pain causes you need to know. When scans are necessary and how to prevent lower back injuries.
Shoulder pain
Causes of shoulder pain depends on the injured structure within the shoulder joint. Symptoms gives us a clue to what structure might be injured.
Neck pain
The symptoms of neck pain often overlap. Our Physios explain neck muscle pain & stiffness, sharp stabbing neck pain when you turn your head. To find the culprit causing the pain we have to look at the different structures in the neck: Muscle, nerve, joints
Groin Pain
Causes of groin pain in the inner thigh and pelvis, symptoms and exercises that can prevent groin injuries. Distinguish between types of groin pain.
Neck Muscle Spasm
Neck muscle spasm is a symptom of either protective guarding or sustained muscle tension, that can fatigue the muscles in your neck. A Neck muscle spasm is usually an underlining cause of something else. Neck pain can be caused by a wide variety of pathology (injury to the tissue) of the different muscle layers in your neck, some more serious than other. Ask your Physio to help you understand why your neck muscles are going haywire.
Shin Pain
Most shin pain is the result of repetitive overuse that ends up overloading the structures such as your bone, muscle and tendons. Your calf muscles protect your shin bone from the back, however excessive load through your shin bone (tibia) will cause shin pain and numerous other injuries. [...]
Calf pain
Calf pain can come from any of your thigh, calf or shin muscles also your knee and ankle joints. To establish where exactly the calf injury is, can be very helpful at identifying what structure is causing the pain. Calf pain can be caused by any of the muscles, [...]
Shoulder muscle injury
A shoulder muscle strain can also be called a shoulder muscle tear or a pulled muscle. Ask our Shoulder muscle expert
Sciatic Nerve pain
Sciatic nerve pain are felt along the sciatic nerve is referred to as sciatica. Sciatic nerve pain can be caused by compression, irritation or damage to the sciatic nerve branch as it runs from the lower back to the hip, leg, thigh & foot. We test, diagnose and treat sciatic nerve injury, especially Sciatica.