Emma Jeyes-Friendship Does your child or teenager complain of having to carry heavy schoolbags, resulting in back pain, sore neck and shoulders? Posture problems As a mum of a teenage daughter I am aware of how heavy schoolbags can get. Teenage back pain from carrying heavy bags seems to be quite a problem especially with […]
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Want to get fitter, lose some weight or simply feel better in yourself, but hate the gym or never stick to a program? SWISSFIT will help you reach your goals. Our new SWISSFIT Service SWISSFIT is a combined tailored exercise, massage, fitness and well-being program. Our aim is to help you discover ways to reach
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Wellness and Exercise in the cold: Part 2. Hazards and cooling down. While exercising in the cold winter months may not seem like everyone’s idea of a goodtime, it packs some great benefits for your body. Recent research tells us that running in thecold can not only get your body more used to the colder
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Get your body ready for training with the correct warm up Here are some great exercises to do before you begin your run. The best way to warm up is to incorporate balance and body-weight movements that are straightforward and easy to perform. Complete these movements until your muscles feel loose, minimally fatigued and warm.
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Stiff neck and achy shoulders? How to avoid them. Start the day with gentle warm up exercises. Here an easy program to get you ready for your day at work at the desk.Repeat the exercises few times a day and you will feel the benefit in your body as well as in your concentration and
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Part 1. Warming up – James Curtis The days draw shorter, and get a lot colder: how will this affect the routines for your exercise habits but also for work? Warming up to exercise is always important to prepare brain and body for action and reduce delayed onset muscle soreness or excessive stress on the
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James Curtis Sports therapists do sports massage. It seems simple enough but you may actually begin towonder, what is a sports massage? what makes it different from a Swedish massage ordeep tissue work, if anything at all?The difference comes not from the style of the application, but the focus of the application.Put simply, sports massage
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By Maisie French Maisie French is a young sportsperson with a passion for dance, swimming, athletics and volleyball but when she ignored the signs of a sore back it quickly became a debilitating and extremely painful problem that impacted her daily life. Maisie explains how seeing a physiotherapist helped her to understand her body and gave her the tools needed to
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Seasonal Changes – Roberta Reeve As we enter the fullness of summer, we spend more time outdoors and typically become more active: whether gardening, walking along the beach, or getting out to social events,this new level of activity can bring aches, pains, and niggles to our attention.Traditional Chinese Medicine, taught me to observe that during
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What is cupping? We’ve all seen it, whether it’s athletes online, on the TV, or at your local gym or swimming pool people covered with perfect circular bruises along their back, arms and legs; leaving us wondering exactly what is it that they’ve been doing? Cupping uses glass or silicon rubber cups to apply a
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