Physiotherapy & Massage Tankerton Physiotherapy near HERNE BAY
Directions to Tankerton Physiotherapy from Herne Bay
Shirley-Ann Walters offers Physiotherapy to people of all ages living in the Herne Bay area. Situated just a few minutes away in Tankerton, Shirley-Ann Walters offers a personalised, hands on approach to physiotherapy, including massage and wellbeing treatments.
Herne Bay is 12 minutes drive away via the 'old' Thanet way A2990 or Canterbury road B2205 and A2990. There is easy access from the Chestfield and Swalecliffe railway bridge roundabout, and the clinic at Tankerton Physiotherapy is located at 59 Herne Bay Road (B2205), Tankerton CT5 2LL, just past the traffic lights on your left.
There is plenty of on-street parking nearby. It has a green picket fence outside and is situated between turnings for Kemp Road and Seafield Road. There are request bus stops marked either side. There is plenty of on-street parking nearby.
We are 6 minutes walk or a 1 minute drive away from Jo-Jo’s restaurant at Priest and Sow Corner heading towards Chestfield and Swalecliffe railway station, which is 10 minutes walk from us to the south.
There are two request bus stops within 50 yards, heading in either direction on Herne Bay Road which bus number 400 serves frequently during the day.
Acute soft Tissue Injuries
In situations of acute soft tissue injuries the best initial advice you may have heard of is "RICE" or R.I.C.E which stands for Rest Ice Compression and Elevation. If you want to reduce swelling, elevation needs to be higher than your heart. Take care applying ice as it is possible to get an ice burn - always put a cloth between the gel pack or frozen peas and your skin and do a maximum of 10 minutes at a time. Never use a food or wine cooler as they can be too cold.
Lumbago or lower back pain
Lower Back Pain affects many people of all ages, during work whether manual or sedentary, sport such as golf, hobbies such as gardening, and everyday life and chores such as DIY. Chartered and State registered physiotherapists such as Shirley-Ann deal with this sort of thing every day in their clinical practice, both as treatment and prevention of back pain.
Education about movement, exercises, pain management, lifting and handling and how to look after your back can be an excellent foundation and this kind of support is available at Tankerton Physiotherapy, near Whitstable.
Neck, shoulder, and limb pain
Work related pain due to poor ergonomics, repetative movements and bad posture are on the increase and Shirley-Ann Walters is used to treating these problems with physiotherapy manual techniques, advice, exercises and massage depending on what is needed.
Other kinds of neck pain may be a result of whiplash injuries, trapped nerves, stress and tension, and other more acute problems. If you have had X-rays or scans, bring any information you have with you to your first physiotherapy treatment session.
OptiNeck Balance Wedge® is a device that helps you to maintain upper body posture and fitness as a sound foundation to the rest of the arm.
Elderly Rehabilitation Packages
The nature of elderly care varies widely, but in many instances there is plenty of scope for assessment and rehabilitation such as after a fall or illness or operation, or to re-evaluate walking aids and mobility circumstances and needs to facilitate independence for as long as possible and based on the persons own needs and wishes, along with supporting friends and family there to help them.
Talking though a complex set of needs via an assessment with Chartered and State registered physiotherapist Shirley-Ann Walters can so often help to clarify the picture and priorities and break things down into manageable goals and where to focus limited energy. This can occur in clinic where possible, and subject to space available in the diary home visits at additional cost. Please ask for details.
The assessment and treatment provided by Shirley-Ann is exemplary. Shirley-Ann reviews previous treatments and my feedback on each visit ensuring that the treatment is tuned to my needs every time.
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About
Shirley-Ann Walters
Established in 2001 – Registered with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
With over 30 years of clinical experience, physiotherapist Shirley-Ann Walters offers a professional, high quality, caring, effective and practical approach to treatment including a detailed confidential assessment and a variety of gentle HANDS-ON approaches, clear advice, explanations and exercises in physiotherapy general practice specialising in a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders.
Shirley-Ann is dedicated to helping people to receive the realisations that lead to self-care, considering the wider factors contributing to injury, facilitating healing and prevention, supporting the return to life’s flow, using expression, listening, and effective practical physiotherapy hands-on techniques.
Shirley-Ann qualified from The Middlesex Hospital London, worked in the NHS, then in a group private practice before joining BMI Runnymede Hospital and becoming the physiotherapy manager. She started her own practice in South Ascot, and moved to a designated treatment room in Lightwater, Surrey, where she still offers appointments 2 days a week. Shirley-Ann now has a designated treatment room at home in Tankerton where she practices Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Shirley-Ann keeps up with new physiotherapy treatment techniques and is also a fully qualified and regularly re-assessed practitioner of complementary therapies available as stand-alone therapies or in conjunction with physiotherapy treatments.
A member since 1992, Shirley-Ann is also an active community representative for the private practitioners association Physiofirst.
Why here? Her husband grew up in Tankerton and her late and much loved mother-in-law lived on Baddlesmere Road for 64 years. This move has been the most natural development of their very special relationship with this area.