Don’t you just hate acronyms? They are trotted out at every opportunity and we are made to feel stupid if we don’t immediately know what they stand for.
So, sufferers of back pain and knee pain will know all about APOS therapy won’t you? No, neither did I, but you may well be hearing more about it in the future as the therapy has been licenced exclusively to Bupa in the UK for the past two years or so.
To put you out of your misery it stands for ‘All Phases of Step’ therapy, and was developed by two Israeli doctors following seven years of research.
In a very basic form it involves having a couple of lumps of rubber stuck to the bottom of your shoes. OK it’s a little more technical than that. The principal is that by changing the shape of the sole of your footwear, you can change the muscles you use to walk. This in turn can reduce or even eliminate much pain.
Bupa are now treating around 3,000 patients with backpain and knee pain from their centres at Solihull and Reading, with a very high success rate.
To learn more about APOS, together with a case study, you can access a report posted on Running Free Online here.
Just putting apos therapy into your search engine brings up lots of stuff you can check out. Looks very promising.
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