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The centres have co-delivered sessions with the NHS for several years, where patients with hip, knee and back pain can self refer, or be referred by hospital physiotherapy teams.

She said her "breasts were basically down to my bellybutton" before surgery, leading to backache and the need for physiotherapy, she said.

He jokingly shows the wheelchair scuffs on the skirting boards around his home, with physiotherapy currently taking up much of his day.

Abed El Hamed Qaradaya is the physiotherapy activity manager at Doctors Without Borders’ hospital-based clinic in Gaza, where he's worked for 17 years, facing other very serious crisis situations.

"The Holy Father still requires hospital medical therapy, motor and respiratory physiotherapy; these therapies, at present, are showing further, gradual improvements," it said in a statement on Saturday.