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Healthy habits, how to start and stick to them.
There are several times of the year that we tend to think about starting healthy habits such as a new diet or exercise routine. New Year, around the time of our birthday and several weeks before the summer holiday we have long planned. Often these times of the...
Ways To Improve Your Health – Number 1
So it is this time of the year that we are all thinking of ways of improving our lives and since January is powering on many of us may have already found that our willpower has not lasted as long as we had hoped. Or that we haven't quite managed the gym as often as we...
Make Spinal Health Your New Year’s Resolution
It’s that time of year again between Christmas and New Year. There is a high chance that many (or all of us) will have eaten and drunk too much and perhaps not done much exercise in the past few days (or weeks!) Our thoughts tend to turn to New Year Resolutions and...
Festive Low Back Injuries
Christmas is a fun and happy time. It can also be a hazardous one if this research is anything to go by. I see several patients every year with festive low back injuries that have been caused or made worse by certain Christmas activities. So in a bid to stop fun...
Top 3 Festive Causes of Upper Back and Neck Pain
Christmas and the festive season is a busy time of the year. Around this time of the year I tend to see a few unique causes of upper back and neck pain. These festive activities can by themselves cause upper back and neck pain, or exacerbate problems that have been...
3 Areas of Your Body That Can Cause Headaches
Christmas and the festive season is a busy time of the year. Around this time of the year I tend to see a few unique causes of upper back and neck pain. These festive activities can by themselves cause upper back and neck pain, or exacerbate problems that have been...
5 Ways to Stop Screen Use Being a Pain in the Neck
When we think of factors that can cause headaches we often think of dehydration, certain foods or drinks (alcohol!) or ‘that time of the month’. In truth there are many different types of headaches, and many different causes of them as this brilliant...
Top Three Tips to Studying without Neck and Back Pain
Screen use a pain in the neck? Screens. They are everywhere in our lives. Phones, tablets, laptops, desktops and game systems. And as we all know they can be slightly addictive… we have all fallen into that rabbit hole of looking up a recipe for dinner only to find...
My Top 5 Things to Consider when Choosing a School Rucksack
Now that the kids are back to school it is time for homework! Whether they have a lot or a little, it is important that they study with a good posture. If they are just starting to have homework then it is an ideal time to get into good habits, or if they are already...
How to Avoid The Perils of Hot Desking
It's back to school time! After the holidays it is often a time when we are searching around for school uniform, P.E kit and other bits that we need for the new school term. One thing that can often be overlooked is the school bag. The type of bag, how its worn and...
Desk Related Injuries? My top 8 tips to avoid them
Hot desking is becoming more and more common in offices around the country. With more and more people hot-desking I see a correlation is more patients visiting me with upper back, neck injuries, headaches, wrist and arm pain. Having aches, pains and injuries whilst...
Tips to Avoid Bank Holiday Aches and Pains
Many of us spend a lot of time at our desks, whether this is working in the office or working from home this can lead to desk related injuries. For a few of us this is an entirely pain free experience, but for a lot of us it brings aches and pains in our lower back,...
Three Easy Steps to Avoid Sun Lounger Injuries
Bank holiday is around the corner and for many of us it is a time to use that extra day to travel, either to see friends, relatives or a different part of the world! This blog has a few tips on how to avoid aches and pains when packing the car, driving to your...
Avoid Holiday Disaster by taking your Pillow with you
It's back to school time! After the holidays it is often a time when we are searching around for school uniform, P.E kit and other bits that we need for the new school term. One thing that can often be overlooked is the school bag. The type of bag, how its worn and...
Choosing a Bikini for your Holiday
If you suffer from neck pain then I would recommend that you take your pillow on holiday. This may sound bizarre but I have found that it can help save people from a lot of pain and problems once they are on holiday. It may not be easy to do if you are...
Managing Pain whilst you are on Holiday
It’s that time of the year when we start looking forward to the summer and hopefully the holidays it brings. If you have booked yourself a sunny trip perhaps it is time to buy a new swimming costume or bikini. Usually when we are thinking about buying a swimming...
What’s the difference between custom made and off the shelf orthotics.
If you have back pain or neck pain or any other chronic pain then sometimes thinking about holidays can be a bit of a worry. Hopefully you'll already be having the problem treated by a healthcare professional so it will be being managed. So although you may not...
What are Orthotics and what is a Gaitscan?
Christmas and the festive season is a busy time of the year. Around this time of the year I tend to see a few unique causes of upper back and neck pain. These festive activities can by themselves cause upper back and neck pain, or exacerbate problems that have been...
Why is posture important?
When we think of factors that can cause headaches we often think of dehydration, certain foods or drinks (alcohol!) or ‘that time of the month’. In truth there are many different types of headaches, and many different causes of them as this brilliant...
Stop Neck and Back Pain whilst Driving
Christmas is a fun and happy time. It can also be a hazardous one if this research is anything to go by. I see several patients every year with festive low back injuries that have been caused or made worse by certain Christmas activities. So in a bid to stop fun...
Don’t let aches and pains ruin your nights sleep
So it is this time of the year that we are all thinking of ways of improving our lives and since January is powering on many of us may have already found that our willpower has not lasted as long as we had hoped. Or that we haven't quite managed the gym as often as we...
Could your desk posture be causing your pain?
Many of us spend a lot of time at our desks, whether this is working in the office or working from home this can lead to desk related injuries. For a few of us this is an entirely pain free experience, but for a lot of us it brings aches and pains in our lower back,...
How to avoid pelvic girdle pain in your next pregnancy?
When we think of factors that can cause headaches we often think of dehydration, certain foods or drinks (alcohol!) or ‘that time of the month’. In truth there are many different types of headaches, and many different causes of them as this brilliant...
Reoccurring injury? Could your feet be the problem?
We hear a lot about good posture and bad posture but why is posture important, and why should we care about it? Well I suppose, in my opinion, there are two aspects of posture. Firstly, that our general posture day to day adapts to the activities we do most regularly....
Can Chiropractic Care help Headaches and Migraines?
If you have started to get out and about more, or returned to your favourite sport and started to remember that one of the reasons why you gave it up in the first place was that niggling injury that never fully went away? If you are having recurrent injuries then...
Treatments that helped my pelvic girdle pain (PGP)
Can Chiropractic Care help with Headaches and Migraines? Headaches and Migraines can be difficult things to live with and treat. They have many different causes and can affect different people in different ways. Some of us will barely have headaches, only suffering...
How To Find a Chiropractor Near You
If you have started to get out and about more, or returned to your favourite sport and started to remember that one of the reasons why you gave it up in the first place was that niggling injury that never fully went away? If you are having recurrent injuries then...
Why you should wear the right sized bra
Can Chiropractic Care help with Headaches and Migraines? Headaches and Migraines can be difficult things to live with and treat. They have many different causes and can affect different people in different ways. Some of us will barely have headaches, only suffering...
7 Ways to Avoid Golfing Injuries
Why you should wear the right sized bra. Now ladies, this one is for you. Are you wearing the right sized bra for you? Not many of us would instantly think of bras as the cause of our back pain. The culprits we often think of are poor posture, sitting at desks and...
Babies, Toddlers and Back Pain
I would like to share my 7 Ways to Avoid Golfing Injuries! Golfing injuries are relatively common with one study showing that almost 20%3 of golfers have experienced an injury in the past year. The most common injury areas are the back (25 %)3 with other injuries...