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Back Pain? What’s New

It is big in the news at the moment that experts have found out that prescribing rest and painkillers for back pain doesn’t do the trick. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/back-pain-costing-uk-one-mi/… Well, this is what myself as physiotherapist but also, chiros and osteopaths have been preaching for years. I am a big advocate of “prevention is better than cure” and

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Stress and Pain

Sometimes we can forget how much our minds and our bodies are connected. We can get so busy that we don’t realize that our bodies are carrying tension for long periods that our stresses have impacted our breathing and our stomachs have felt tight for hours. Long periods of anxiety and stress can lead to

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When the Head Feels Heavy, the Shoulders Ache and Everything Is a Pain in the Neck

Hands up who has already experienced a bad neck and / or shoulder. Also hands up who usually says “I know, my posture is horrible but…I work at the computer, or it has been like this for the past 40 years…” An upright (sitting) posture is the most energy-efficient and structure protective one, like in

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