St. Joseph's Physiotherapy Clinic is pleased to announce our partnership with AXA Mansard Health Limited HMO, to offer exceptional physiotherapy and rehabilitation services to their enrollees.





At St. Joseph's Physiotherapy we provide the best Physiotherapy rehabilitation treatments available. We are specialists at Stroke Rehabilitation, we offer wholesome post-surgical rehabilitation and we treat acute to chronic back pain due to poor posture and spinal immobility.

Our services, while adhering to best practices, are not limited by conventional approaches. We incorporate TelePhysio Consultations for those that are very busy and would rather have a consultation with one of our specialists over an interactive video call. It also makes consultations efficient for those with difficulty in getting to our clinic due to major surgery or are at a high risk of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

In more critical conditions or for your convenience, we will bring rehabilitation to you at home or at work, with tailor made and individualized rehabilitation regimen, to improve your functional abilities, reduce pain and prevent disability.

Our strategic alliance with AXA Mansard Health Limited, the leading HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) in Nigeria, significantly increases our reach and our ability to provide quality Physiotherapy rehabilitation services across many individuals and organizations with the AXA Mansard health coverage in Lagos State.

Our partnership with AXA Mansard HMO brings us closer to corporate organizations that care about the well being of their employees, and makes affordable convenient rehabilitation services accessible across their entire organization. We are pleased to be associated with AXA Mansard Health Limited in this regard.

AXA Mansard HMO is an award winning health insurance service provider that insures flexible and quality healthcare plans with the best service delivery.

Find out from your Human resource, or medical unit, if you are enrolled with an AXA Mansard plan. We are glad to offer our [url=stjosephsphysio.com]Physiotherapy[/url] rehabilitation services to you and your loved ones at our clinic situated at 21B Christ Avenue, Off Admiralty road, lekki phase 1 Lagos Nigeria.

The word Physiotherapy was derived from the Greek term phusis-therapeia, meaning physical-healing. The practice dates back to ancient Greek in 460 BC. Its pioneer, a physician named Hippocrates asserted that a series of assisted physical exercises and manual therapy techniques can be used for a variety of health related purposes, such as pain relief, rehabilitation, and general body wellness. All the methods of therapy used by a physiotherapist dates back thousands of years.

Physiotherapists help improve a patient's physical functions through physical assessments, rehabilitation, and personalized exercise regimens.

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Some Common Conditions that require a Physiotherapist.


Musculoskeletal conditions: Conditions such arthritis, osteoporosis, back pain, sciatica, and gout require the assistance of a physiotherapist to manage.

Muscular dystrophy: These are a group of diseases that affects the muscles by causing progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass.

Post-operative rehabilitation: After surgery, particularly those related to muscle damage, it is advised that you visit a physiotherapist to help aid the full recovery of functional mobility and help relieve muscle stiffness.



Getting Started


Get comfortable: Visiting a physiotherapist entails physical contact with the affected joints. As a patient with injury, or recovering from surgical procedure, you are advised to wear comfortable clothes that won't restrict movements or irritate scarred areas.

Clothing such as cotton shorts, shirts and leggings are highly recommended, when coming for consultation and therapy. This allows for easy assessment and treatment.

Patient Documentation: It is very important for your physiotherapist to know your medical history and general health to ascertain the best and safest treatment to be administered.


What to expect


Physical Assessments: The physiotherapist aims to understand your condition better through physical assessment. To assess your mobile capacity, you will be asked to do a few motion exercises, such as a short distance walk. A physiotherapist will carry tests to check your level of pain, function, limitations, and reflexes. A proper assessment will enable the physiotherapist get a good idea of how to proceed with treatment.







Personalized Treatment

After a physical assessment, the physiotherapist will recommend a recovery plan that best suits your condition. A patient recovery is dependent on the individual. A personalized plan is necessary to follow through with the proper exercise regimen.



Our Approach


At St Joseph's Physiotherapy Clinic we are a team of therapists who use various techniques to achieve optimal results for our patients. Our range of treatments provided in the clinic and home services include (but are not limited to the following):

Electrotherapy: This involves the use of electric stimulation for treatment. This technique assists with pain reduction, promotes healing, and increases circulation for tissue repair.



Massage Treatment: As simple as massages may seem, you need a physiotherapist to perform it to receive maximum benefit. Massages involve manual manipulation of the body's soft tissues, with focus on muscle, tendon and ligaments. Physical hands-on therapy helps to relieve pain resulting from sporting activities, and fluid retention which occurs in an injury, or after surgical operation.


Therapeutic Ultrasound: This helps to soften tissue, decrease pain, reduce swelling, break down dense scar tissues, and increase blood flow. This deep heating process is done by sending high frequency sound waves to the affected tissue.



Heat therapy: It is commonly adopted to relieve pain. It involves using warm materials such as heated towels, heating pads or heated wraps. It helps prevent muscle spasms.



Exercises: Stretches and Strengthening exercises are very necessary to regain full functionality and strength. Muscles shorten and become stiff after an injury or surgery, exercising helps to release stiffness and muscle tension.







We follow up
After your prescribed sessions have expired, a follow up of post therapeutic activities will be recommended for you which include exercises and stretches. We also offer telephysio consultation services, to enable you to be in contact with us at all times.

Our priority is to get you to full recovery, we at St Joseph's physiotherapy Clinic guarantee we will be by your side and helping you every step of the way to achieve your rehabilitation goals.

You can book an appointment via contact@stjosephsphysio.com or giving us a call on 09060960109. We look forward to seeing you at St Joseph's Physiotherapy Clinic. We are at 21B Christ Avenue, off Admiralty Road, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos Nigeria.

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when you're done with your orthopaedic surgery,Physiotherapy for your rehabilitation back to optimum function is a great idea!

Some may say that "Nollywood" and "Mistakes" are synonyms, and using them both in a sentence may as well be tautology. The truth is, especially for Nollywood, we have a lot more excuses than other movie industries for making these Mistakes.
The award winning Hollywood Director Steven Spielberg accidentally stepped into the frame of one of his first movies called "Duel". Spielberg left the mistake in to remind him of the imperfection of film making. So why do these mistakes occur?
Most of the answers lie in the high pressure world of commercial movie production which is worse here because Nigerians don’t like to pay for anything. Directors generally work under the tightest budgets (mainly because investors wouldn’t want to put in so much into what may not reap fruits) with heavy time restraints and re-shooting movie scenes can be a nightmare.
If an occasional mistake manages to get into the final cut of a film, and it is actually noticed, it may be best to leave it in and pray not too many viewers notice, rather than arrange for an expensive re-shoot or other post-production fix.
Some movie mistakes are caused by shooting out of the sequence of the script. Very few movies are filmed in a linear progression according to the script.
The truth is, producers may only have access to a particular booked location or scene for a short time due to a tight budget, so the director and actors must shoot ALL the scenes based at that location at one time, regardless of whether its only the beginning and end of the movie. This leads to our very popular "continuity errors", such as having Lagos taxis all around in "Doctor Bello" when they were supposed to be in Abeokuta (Ogun State). Shooting out of sequence can also lead to inconsistencies in an actor's appearance or use of certain props.
The most annoying of Nollywood movie mistakes are factual errors. If a movie is set in a particular time period, such as the 1980s, it is up to the set designers to make sure everything shown on the set is historically appropriate. we see a lot of scenes like where Tuface Idibia is shown on a billboard in a movie supposedly set 20 years ago. Lets not even get into mistakes made as a result of not consulting professionals in the area of expertise involved in the movie.

Most frequently, cast or crew members create movie mistakes by stepping into the shot or allowing equipment to appear ( e.g in "Broken Silence, where camera wires and multi-sockets are seen in the shot). Boom microphones are especially difficult to use without them showing in the frame, so many modern cameras have built-in safety zones which prevent such accidental intrusions from microphones or crew members, which ideally Nollywood producers should use.
Finally, our dear grammatical and translational errors. We all wonder why such errors get into production. Even if the script writer isn’t too fluent in the English language, shouldn’t the actor or anybody on the set notice such? In reality, it all boils down to the time available for shooting the movie, and the funds. Is there enough time to employ someone to proof-read scripts and translations before the shooting date or production? How much time do they have to begin to correct scripts when all actors are on set and rent of venue is already running?
In conclusion, Nollywood is limited by a greater number of factors than their counterpart movie industries, some of which are funds (investors), equipment, quality and unique movie scripts, creativity, proper consultation for areas of expertise used in the movies and most of all, proper directing. On the bright side, Nollywood has a huge fan base of people who only watch the movies for the comedy in the production. Nevertheless, we can't deny the surprisingly large number of people who want improvements.
Culled from www.nollywoodmistakes.com

10. “DOCTOR BELLO”
Dr Bello (Jimmy Jean-Louis) was supposed to be a Nigerian, yet spoke with a French/Haitian accent. You think Nigerians don’t know what a Nigerian accent sounds like?

9. “FALSE”
Doctor Bella (Okonkwo Monalisa) said an X-Ray showed that Emelda’s (Uche Jombo) blood vessels were damaged. An X-Ray does not show blood vessels.

8. “PLAYING SAFE”
Femi (Sexy Steel) and Emeka (Smart Maxwell) who were best friends had never met each other’s fiancées. Is that really possible? Especially when there’s no indication that Vivian (Ini Edo) or both guys knew to suggest that any was deliberately hiding from the other.

7. “ANCHOR BABY”
When Joyce (Omoni Oboli) gives birth at the hospital, there is no blood on the newborn nor is there an umbilical cord which should have been cut to separate the infant from the mother.

6. “WEEKEND GETAWAY”
As the Concierge (Bishop Imeh-Umoh) reaches for a kiss from Ogechi (Ini Edo), a male voice in the background is heard saying " go closer" and "closer", as the Concierge (Bishop Imeh-Umoh) leans even further to receive a slap.

5. “LAST FLIGHT TO ABUJA”
The movie opened with radio voice-over of the "Good Morning Nigeria Show" with "Manny and the Angels" on Cool FM, Lagos. In 2006, the Good Morning Nigeria Show was hosted by Dan Foster and not Manny and the Angels.

4. “MR & MRS”
The lawyer (Chioma Nwosu) refers to the story of “the Virtuous Woman” that David wrote about in the bible. The Virtuous Woman was in the book of Proverbs 31, which was written by King Solomon and not David.

3. “DOCTOR BELLO”
They left for Unilag to see the Dean of Medicine. The Dean of Medicine’s office isn’t at the University of Lagos (Unilag) Akoka, but in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital’s (LUTH) College of Medicine Idi-Araba.

2. “GIRLS IN THE MOOD”
When a gun is fired, where should the smoke come from? (See image below)


1. “THE PLACE – THE CHRONICLE OF THE BOOK”
After death, people queued up for judgment at heaven’s gate. Didn’t people die from other countries or was that the Nigerian gate?

Culled from www.nollywoodmistakes.com

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