Patient information leaflet library
The information on this website does not replace a consultation with your healthcare professional. Your doctor or nurse will answer any questions and advise what information you should read about your condition, diagnosis, or treatment. The information they direct you to is specific to you and may not be relevant to others with the same condition.
Please click on the relevant link below:
- Aquatic therapy (hydrotherapy)
- COVID-19 rehabilitation guide
- MSK Together
- Sherwood Rehabilitation Team - Mansfield Community Hospital
- Parkinson's disease - chair-based exercises
- Parkinson's disease - bed-based exercises
- Fractures (broken bones)
- Heat versus ice therapy
- Hand therapy: Thumb exercises
- Hand therapy: Finger exercises
- Hand therapy: Wrist exercises
- Hand therapy: Exercises following extensor tendon repair
- Hand therapy: Scar management
- Hand therapy: Swelling management - pressure therapy
- Hand therapy: Swelling management
- Hand therapy: Dupuytren's Contracture
- Hand therapy: De Quervains Tenosynovitis
- Hand therapy: Desensitisation
- Hand therapy: Biceps tendon reinsertion
- Hand therapy: Therapeutic putty hand exercises
- Hand therapy: Mallet injuries
- Hand therapy: Mallet splint weaning advice
- Hand therapy: Care of your device
- Small arc motion for central slip repair
- How to manage a wrist fracture while in cast
- Trapeziectomy - post-operative hand therapy
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Rheumatology Occupational Therapy: Hand exercises
- Rheumatology Occupational Therapy: Therapeutic putty hand exercises
- Joint flares - the importance of self-care
- Total knee replacement
- Arthroscopic knee surgery
- Anterior knee pain - causes and treatments
- Your Cryo-cuff
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome
- Advice following surgery for wrist fractures
- Exercises and advice following head and neck surgery
- Therapy following a neck of femur fracture
- Continuous Passive Motion (CPM)
- Physiotherapy advice following your third or fourth degree perineal tear
- Physiotherapy advice following your vaginal birth
- Volar plate injuries
- Assisting hand and arm recovery (after a stroke)
- How to use your splint (after a stroke)
- Polysling to support the arm (after a stroke)
- Frozen shoulder
- Tennis elbow
- Amputee Wheelchair Group
- Breathing pattern disorders
- Using elbow crutches
- How to fit a poly sling
- How to fit a shoulder brace
- Knee range of motion exercises
- Shoulder range of movement exercises
- Ankle range of movement exercises
- Hip exercises
- Hip precautions
- Ankle sprains and strains
- Medial collateral ligament (MCL) sprain
- Clavicle fracture
- Muscle strains
- Radial head fractures
- Ankle fractures
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction
- Patella (kneecap) dislocation
- Knee manipulation under anaesthetic
- Range of motion (ROM) knee brace
- Richard splint
- Foot and ankle surgery
- Aircast boot
- Humeral braces
- Range of motion (ROM) elbow brace
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Rehabilitation following lower limb amputation
- Rehabilitation following lower limb amputation LARGE PRINT VERSION
- Total hip replacement with hip precautions
- Total hip replacement without hip precautions
- Exercises and advice following breast surgery
- Home exercises booklet
- Increased mobility in children and adolescents
- Anterior knee pain in children and adolescents
- Back care advice for children and adolescents
- Soft tissue injury - early management
- Equaliser boot
- Osgood Schlatter's Disease
- Breath stacking and lung volume recruitment
- Flexion strap
- Physiotherapy following your abdominal operation
- Wearing your splint
- Knee soft tissue surgery - advice and education
- Botulinum toxin (Botox)
- Botox treatment - active exercises
- Botox treatment - passive stretches
- Walking aid return and reuse scheme
- Managing back pain
- Plantar fasciitis
- Trochanteric pain syndrome
