Spink Physiotherapy

Spink Physiotherapy An MSK physiotherapist who combines a degree in sports science with a masters degree in physiotherapy

I combine a degree in Applied Sport and Exercise Science with a masters degree in Physiotherapy to ensure an effective method of therapy is provided.

02/09/2026

Not all physio is created equal. Here’s how to tell the difference before you’ve wasted time and money finding out the hard way.

If you left your last appointment more confused than when you walked in that’s a sign.

Five things worth knowing before you book your next session.

Swipe and be honest with yourself.

31/08/2026

Pain worst first thing, then eases as the day goes on? That’s not random. That’s a pattern. And patterns mean something.

The way your pain behaves through the day tells you more about what’s driving it than most people realise.

Knowing which pattern you’re in changes the whole approach.

Swipe to find out what yours is telling you.

26/08/2026

If your back hurts and you’re sitting still waiting for it to pass that’s probably making it worse.

Rest feels like the right call. It usually isn’t.

Prolonged sitting loads the lumbar spine in a way that stiffens tissue, winds up the nervous system, and keeps pain going longer than it needs to.

Swipe for what to do instead.

4 months of sciatica. Pain free in 8 weeks.This patient had been dealing with sciatica for four months before they found...
25/08/2026

4 months of sciatica. Pain free in 8 weeks.

This patient had been dealing with sciatica for four months before they found Spink Physiotherapy on Instagram.

Four months of that specific kind of pain the radiating discomfort, the unpredictability of it, not knowing what’s going to aggravate it next. That wears people down in a way that’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t felt it.

They got in touch. We had a conversation. And then we got to work.

Sciatica isn’t a diagnosis in itself it’s a symptom. Which means finding what’s actually driving the nerve irritation is the whole job. The structure involved, the mechanism, the loading pattern that’s keeping it sensitised.

Get that right and the treatment has a direction.

Eight weeks later they were completely pain free.

Here’s what they said:

”Jeb instantly puts you at ease and is passionate about helping you get better. Knows his stuff inside and out and thinks outside the box.”

That last part, thinking outside the box, is what happens when you treat the person in front of you rather than the diagnosis on paper.

Sciatica looks different in every patient. The assessment has to reflect that.

If you’ve been dealing with sciatica or nerve pain and haven’t found answers yet, message me PAIN and let’s work out what’s driving it.

24/08/2026

Knees fine going upstairs. Agony going down. Here’s the reason.

It feels like it should be the other way around. Less effort, less pain.

But downstairs is actually the harder movement for a struggling knee and understanding why changes everything about how you fix it.

Swipe to find out what’s actually going on.

Kept reinjuring the same hamstring. Until they didn’t.This is one of the most common patterns I see.Someone picks up a h...
18/08/2026

Kept reinjuring the same hamstring. Until they didn’t.

This is one of the most common patterns I see.

Someone picks up a hamstring injury. It settles. They go back to sport. It goes again. They rest. They go back. Same thing happens.

And every time it feels like starting from scratch.

The frustrating part isn’t the injury itself. It’s the cycle. The feeling that your body just can’t hold up to what you’re asking it to do. That maybe this is just how it’s going to be.

It doesn’t have to be.

Recurring hamstring injuries almost always come down to the same thing the underlying deficits were never properly identified and addressed. The pain went. The weakness stayed. And the tissue went back into the same demands it wasn’t strong enough to handle.

Here’s what this patient said after breaking that cycle:

”After following his treatment and rehab plan, I finally recovered properly and was able to get back playing with confidence.”

That word matters. Confidence.

Not just pain free. Confident. Moving freely, trusting the hamstring, not bracing every time they accelerated.

That’s what proper criteria-based rehab looks like at the end of it.

If you’ve been stuck in the same injury cycle and want to actually break it, message me PAIN and let’s work out what’s been missed.

06/08/2026

It’s not a ten out of ten.

It’s a three or four that’s just always there.

Not stopping you completely. Not dramatic enough to feel like it justifies doing something about it. Just permanently in the background of everything the dull awareness that something isn’t right, that certain movements need to be approached carefully, that you’ll pay for it if you push too hard.

That kind of pain is exhausting in a way that’s hard to explain.

Because you’re still functioning. Still getting through the day. So it’s easy to dismiss. Easy for other people not to take seriously. Easy to tell yourself other people have it worse.

But a three out of ten that’s been there for six months is worth taking seriously.

It usually means something specific.

And something specific can be found.

Message me PAIN.

📍 Spink Physiotherapy, Glasgow City Centre

05/08/2026

Resting your tendon pain is making it worse.

That’s not an opinion. It’s how tendons work.

Complete rest feels like the right call. It settles. You go back to what you were doing. It flares immediately.

Then you rest again. And the cycle repeats.

Here’s what’s actually happening: tendons need load to recover. Controlled, progressive tension is what drives the structural changes that make them resilient. Remove that load entirely and the tendon doesn’t heal, it deconditions.

Rest buys you a window. It doesn’t fix the problem.

What actually works is a staged loading programme. Isometric work early on. Progressive isotonic loading as tolerance builds. Heavier, slower loading to drive real structural change.

Too much too soon causes a flare. Too little does nothing. The load has to be right.

If you’ve been stuck in the rest-flare-rest cycle for months, that cycle has a way out.

Save this if tendon pain has been holding you back.

📍 Spink Physiotherapy, Glasgow City Centre

29/07/2026

Your back pain might not be a back problem.

If your hip isn’t moving well restricted range, weak glutes, limited rotation your lower back picks up the slack. Every time. Until it can’t anymore.

That’s why the back settles with treatment, then flares again. The hip was never properly assessed.

The same pattern runs in reverse. A stiff thoracic spine pushes demand down into the lumbar spine and the hip. One restriction changes everything above and below it.

Pain is rarely isolated. The body works as a chain and somewhere in that chain there’s a link that isn’t pulling its weight.

Find that link and the rest starts to make sense.

Save this if you’ve been treating back pain that keeps coming back.

📍 Spink Physiotherapy, Glasgow City Centre

Hamstring injuries picked up in a marathon don’t just fix themselves.The mechanism matters. The timing matters. And how ...
28/07/2026

Hamstring injuries picked up in a marathon don’t just fix themselves.

The mechanism matters. The timing matters. And how the rehab is structured from week one matters more than most people realise.

Hamstrings are one of the most re-injured structures in sport precisely because return to load gets rushed, criteria don’t get met, and people go back to full training on feel rather than data.

This patient came in months ago after picking up a hamstring injury mid-marathon.

Not the finish line. Mid-race. Which tells you something about the load the tissue was under.

The rehab has been structured around that. Progressive loading through the right stages. Eccentric work built in early. Strength tracked and tested rather than assumed. No rushing the timeline just because it’s feeling better.

Here’s what they said five weeks in:

”He’s professional, extremely knowledgeable, and genuinely a great person to work with.”

That combination matters. Because hamstring rehab done properly isn’t comfortable or quick and you need to trust the person taking you through it.

Five weeks in and the process is working.

That’s what criteria-based rehab looks like in practice.

If you’re a runner dealing with a hamstring injury and want to come back properly, not just quickly message me PAIN and let’s talk.

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