Megazee.com publishes information about physiotherapy, musculoskeletal pain, injury and rehabilitation so that people can understand their symptoms better and make informed decisions about their care. This page explains exactly what that information is, what it is not, and where its limits sit. Please read it before acting on anything you find on this website.

Urgent symptoms: do not wait for a physiotherapy appointment

Some symptoms need same-day medical assessment, and a physiotherapy clinic is the wrong first stop. Call 999 or go to your nearest emergency department if you have any of the following:

Loss of bladder or bowel control, difficulty passing urine, or numbness around the genitals, inner thighs or back passage (including numbness you only notice when wiping), especially alongside back or leg pain. Combined with worsening weakness in both legs, these can be signs of cauda equina syndrome, a spinal emergency where delay can cause permanent damage.

Sudden facial droop, weakness in one arm, or slurred speech. Use the FAST test and call 999 immediately, even if the symptoms pass.

Chest pain or tightness, pain spreading to the jaw or arm, or sudden breathlessness.

A sudden, severe headache unlike any you have had before, particularly with neck stiffness, vomiting, fever, a rash or sensitivity to light.

After an injury: inability to put weight through a limb, an obviously deformed joint, or rapid severe swelling. These suggest a possible fracture or dislocation.

A hot, swollen, painful calf, especially after surgery, a long flight or a period of immobility. With breathlessness or chest pain, treat it as an emergency.

Fever, night sweats, unexplained weight loss, or pain that reliably wakes you in the early hours, alongside spinal or joint pain.

If you are unsure whether your symptoms are urgent, call NHS 111 for free advice at any hour, or contact your GP the same day.

1. What this website is, and what it is for

Everything published on megaazee.com is general educational information. It is written to help you understand common musculoskeletal problems, what physiotherapy assessment and treatment usually involve, and what current clinical guidance says.

It is written for a general adult audience, not for you specifically. We have never examined you. We do not know your medical history, your medication, your previous scans or your goals, and nothing on this site has been adjusted to take account of them.

2. This is not medical advice

Nothing on this website is medical advice, a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a recommendation to start, stop or change any treatment. It does not replace an in-person assessment by a registered physiotherapist, your GP, or another suitably qualified healthcare professional.

There is a practical reason for this that is worth understanding. Pain rarely names its own cause. Pain down the back of the leg can come from a lumbar nerve root, a gluteal tendon, the hip joint, or the buttock muscles, and each of those leads somewhere different. Shoulder pain can originate at the shoulder, at the neck, or occasionally elsewhere again. A physiotherapy assessment exists to sort between those possibilities using your history, your symptom behaviour and physical testing. An article cannot do that, however accurate the article is.

So please do not use this site to self-diagnose, and never delay or disregard professional advice because of something you read here. If a clinician who has actually assessed you has given you a diagnosis or a rehabilitation plan, follow theirs rather than anything written on this page.

3. No practitioner-patient relationship is created

Reading this website, downloading anything from it, submitting the enquiry form, or emailing or messaging us does not make you a Megazee.com patient and does not create a clinician-patient relationship.

That relationship begins only when you attend an appointment, a Megazee physiotherapist has assessed you, and you have consented to treatment. Until then, no duty of clinical care arises, no clinical record is opened for you, and nobody here is monitoring your symptoms.

One consequence matters more than the rest. Our enquiry inbox and contact form are not monitored continuously, and they are not a route for urgent problems. Messages are answered during clinic hours. If your symptoms are severe, changing quickly, or on the list in the alert above, contact NHS 111, your GP or the emergency services rather than waiting for a reply from us.

Please also keep any clinical detail you send us brief. You will go through your history properly at your appointment, and ordinary email is not a secure channel for detailed health information.

4. Exercises and self-management content

Some pages on this site describe exercises, stretches, loading progressions and self-management strategies. These are general examples of what a rehabilitation programme can look like. They have not been prescribed to you, they have not been matched to your diagnosis or your stage of healing, and the wrong exercise at the wrong time can set you back.

Speak to a physiotherapist or your doctor before starting any exercise on this site if you:

are recovering from surgery, or have been given post-operative restrictions or a weight-bearing limit
have had a recent significant injury, or suspect a fracture
are pregnant or recently postnatal
live with a cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological or inflammatory condition, or with osteoporosis
take medication affecting your bones, your balance, your blood clotting or your pain perception
have had a joint replacement, a spinal fusion, or any implanted device
become dizzy, faint or unusually breathless on exertion

How to judge what you feel while exercising. Rehabilitation is often mildly uncomfortable, and in clinic we generally accept discomfort that stays mild, settles within about 24 hours, and leaves the joint no more stiff or swollen the next morning. Treat these as signals to stop and get advice: pain that keeps climbing through the set, pain still worse a day later, new or spreading pins and needles, numbness, weakness appearing during the movement, a joint that swells or locks, or a sharp pain that stops you mid-repetition. Misreading these signals is the most common way self-directed rehab goes backwards.

If you choose to exercise unsupervised using information from this site, you do so on your own responsibility.

5. What physiotherapy can and cannot address

Physiotherapy is well suited to assessing and treating musculoskeletal problems: back and neck pain, joint and tendon pain, sports injuries, post-operative rehabilitation, stiffness, weakness and difficulty moving. It also has a genuine role in helping people living with long-term medical conditions maintain mobility, strength and independence.

It is not a treatment for the underlying disease in conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disease or neurological disease. Our physiotherapists work on movement, function, strength and symptom management, alongside the medical team responsible for the condition itself.

Physiotherapists are not medical doctors. They do not report imaging as a radiologist does, they do not provide specialist medical diagnosis, and they do not prescribe medication.

Part of a competent assessment is recognising when a problem is not a physiotherapy problem. Where that is the case we will say so, and refer you back to your GP or on to the appropriate service, including orthopaedics, rheumatology, pain services or urgent care.

6. Who our clinicians are

All physiotherapists treating patients at Megazee are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the statutory regulator for physiotherapists in the United Kingdom, and are chartered members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).

“Physiotherapist” is a protected title in the UK. It is a criminal offence to use it without HCPC registration, which means you can check any clinician before you book. Our practitioner profiles list a registration number you can search on the HCPC’s public register. We would encourage you to do that, here and at any other clinic you are considering.

Registration and chartered membership are facts about individual clinicians. They are not an endorsement of Megazee as a business by the HCPC or the CSP, and we make no claim of NHS affiliation or endorsement.

7. Accuracy, currency and review

We write and review our clinical content in-house, and we draw on national clinical guidance and peer-reviewed evidence, including NICE guideline NG59 on low back pain and sciatica and NHS patient information on physiotherapy.

Even so, clinical knowledge moves. Guidelines are updated, evidence is revised, and a page that was accurate when written can quietly drift out of date. Every clinical page on this site carries a “last reviewed” date and the name of the physiotherapist who reviewed it. Treat that date as the currency statement for the page. If it is more than about a year old, check the position with a clinician before relying on it.

Where evidence is mixed or limited, we say so rather than rounding it up into certainty. We do not publish figures we cannot attribute to a named source. We make no warranty that this website is complete, error-free or continuously available, and we may amend or withdraw content at any time.

8. Links to other websites

Where we link to external organisations such as the NHS, NICE, the HCPC, the CSP or published research, we do so because those sources are useful and authoritative. We do not control them, we are not responsible for their content or accuracy, and what you find there is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

A link from us is not an endorsement of everything on the linked site, and it does not imply that the linked organisation endorses Megazee.

9. Testimonials, case examples and results

Physiotherapy outcomes vary. They depend on your diagnosis, how long you have had the problem, your general health, other conditions you live with, your age and activity level, and how much of the programme you manage between appointments. Two people with what looks like the same problem can have very different recoveries.

Because of that:

We do not guarantee any particular outcome, timescale or number of sessions. Anything on this site describing typical recovery is a general pattern, not a promise made to you.
Any patient feedback published here is that individual’s own experience, shared with their documented consent. It is not evidence that you will get the same result, and it is not clinical evidence of effectiveness.
Case examples used to illustrate a care pathway are anonymised, and may be composites drawn from more than one presentation, to protect patient confidentiality. Where that is so, we label it on the page.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Megazee accepts no liability for any loss, injury or damage arising from reliance on information published on this website, from any action taken or not taken on the basis of it, or from any inability to access the site.

Nothing in this disclaimer excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Nothing here affects your statutory rights, including the right to have services performed with reasonable care and skill.

Read this disclaimer alongside our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions and Accessibility Statement.

11. Jurisdiction and audience

This website is written for a United Kingdom audience and reflects UK clinical guidance, UK healthcare pathways and UK professional regulation. Referral routes, insurance arrangements, medication names and emergency services differ elsewhere. If you are reading from outside the UK, check the position locally before acting on anything here. This disclaimer is governed by the law of England and Wales.

12. Found an error? Tell us

We would rather know. If you believe anything on this site is inaccurate, out of date, unclear or unsafe, email the page address and the problem to hello@megaazee.com and we will review it. Corrections to clinical content are made by a physiotherapist, and a page’s review date is updated only when the content itself has genuinely been re-read.

13. Contact

Megazee Physiotherapy 14 Bridgewater House, Quay Street, Manchester M3 3HN Manchester

Phone: [0161 000 0000](tel:0161 000 0000) Email: hello@megaazee.com

For appointments, contact our physiotherapy team or book an assessment. For anything urgent, use the guidance in the alert at the top of this page instead.

Clinically reviewed by: Dr Helena Marsh, DPhysio, MCSP, HCPC HCPC registered Last updated: 21 September 2026 · Next review due: September 2027

Short-form disclaimer for the foot of every clinical page: “This article is general information and is not a substitute for individual assessment by a registered physiotherapist. If your symptoms are severe, worsening, or include any of the urgent features listed in our medical disclaimer, seek medical advice the same day.”