In more than a decade of practising physiotherapy in Abu Dhabi, our clinical team has heardevery reason a person can give for not seeking help sooner. We have heard them from UAEnationals and from expats, from professionals and from labourers, from young athletes andfrom retirees, from men and from women. The reasons are different in […]
If you have ever been advised to rest after surgery, an injury, or a painful joint flare-up, you may know how challenging it can be to start moving again without triggering the pain all over. You understand the frustrating cycle that slows recovery down. You want to move. Movement is how the body heals. But […]
Abu Dhabi is a city built for cars. The distances between residential areas, businessdistricts, schools, and leisure destinations are vast. Public transport, while improving,remains limited compared to the car-dependent reality of daily life. For the vast majority ofAbu Dhabi residents, the car is not just a convenience — it is a necessity.And it is quietly […]
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- Back Pain
- Lower Back Pain
Flat feet in children is one of the most commonly Googled paediatric health topics byparents across the UAE — and with good reason. When a parent watches their child walkand notices that the inner arch of the foot appears absent, the foot rolling inward, or theheels tilting outward, it raises immediate questions. Is this normal? […]
Every week at Health & Style Medical Centre, we see patients who arrive with a variation ofthe same story. They went to their doctor because of back pain — pain that had beengetting in the way of their daily life for months, sometimes years. They had an X-ray or anMRI. The doctor looked at the […]
In Abu Dhabi’s competitive business landscape, the most forward-thinking organisations arerecognising something that the evidence has been demonstrating for years: the health oftheir workforce is not a soft HR concern — it is a strategic business asset. And the single most costly, most prevalent, and most preventable health problem affectingAbu Dhabi’s working population is musculoskeletal […]
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- corporate physiotherapy
Abu Dhabi has become one of the most active sporting cities in the Middle East. From thefootball pitches of Zayed Sports City to the CrossFit boxes of Al Raha, the running tracks ofthe Corniche, the tennis courts of Saadiyat, and the pools of Khalidiyah — this city’sresidents are training harder, competing more seriously, and pushing […]
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- Sports Injury
Of all the chronic pain conditions we manage at Health & Style Medical Centre, fibromyalgiais perhaps the one that causes the most frustration — not because it cannot be helped, butbecause of how long most patients spend on the journey before they receive the right help. The typical fibromyalgia patient in Abu Dhabi has spent […]
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- Fibromyalgia
- physiotherapy
If you have ever woken up unable to reach behind your back to tuck in a shirt, been unableto lift your arm above your head to take something from a shelf, or been stopped in yourtracks by a deep, aching shoulder pain that defies explanation — you may be one of themany Abu Dhabi residents […]
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- Frozen Shoulder
Spinal surgery is a significant decision. The weeks or months of escalating pain, theconservative treatments that have been tried and found insufficient, the conversations withsurgeons, the weighing of risks and benefits — by the time most patients in Abu Dhabi reachthe operating table, they have already been through an emotionally and physicallydemanding journey. What many […]
