Chiropractic, Osteopathy and Physiotherapy – difference?!
As a chiropractor, one of the most common questions I am asked is: What is the difference between chiropractic, osteopathy and physiotherapy? If I’m feeling facetious, I could answer: spelling! Particularly where chiropractic and osteopathy are concerned, what we do and how we do it are more or less the same. We may call it different things, but the actual […]
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Work smart at your desk
Many people are now required to spend longer and longer periods at their desks, often without the help of an Occupational Health advisor to make sure it is set up in the best possible way to suit each person. While nothing beats having someone come and look at you at your workstation and advising you on-site, here are a few […]
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Drugs – the solution, or the problem?
I would imagine every single house has some sort of medicine cabinet or drawer, full of pills, potions and creams to be brought out whenever they are required to help us live our lives. There is an increasing tendency for the maxim “pop a pill for every ill” to be worryingly accurate. Of course, many medications are vital for good […]
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Winter Blues
With the weather turning chilly (sometimes) at the moment, I am brought to thinking once again about a surprisingly common complaint amongst my patients – Raynauds phenomenon or syndrome. Another frequent winter irritant is chilblains. But what are these two conditions, how are the triggered and what can be done about them? Raynaud’s phenomenon A lot of people will have […]
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Power of Music
I would imagine that we all have certain pieces of music that come to mean things to us – specific events they bring to mind, emotions they bring up or a particular time in our life. Sometimes we hear the music in a shop or on the radio and the memory is evoked, but sometimes we purposely put on a […]
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Back Pain while Driving
Listening to the travel reports on the radio, it sounds like a lot of you are heading off to various gorgeous locations around the country for your summer holidays. Of course, that often means you sit in the car for hours at a time, either just to get to your distant destination or in miles and miles of queues. Not […]
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Back Pain while Standing
Standing. Even if you have a relatively sedentary office job, you quite often still find yourself standing for long periods. Whether it is doing the weekly shop at Tesco, watching your kid’s football game or walking around the garden centre at the weekend, it’s not that uncommon to spend hours at a time on your own two feet. And that […]
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Is 5 a day enough?
There are 3 possible answers to the question of whether 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day is enough. Yes, No and Maybe. Unfortunately, it looks like the true answer is…all of those. First let me say that we define a portion of fruit or vegetables as 80g, which is roughly equivalent to a medium size banana, a couple […]
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Calcium and Vitamin D – should we supplement?
Did you know, our bodies are 1.5% calcium, making it the most abundant mineral in our bodies? Obviously, most of this is locked up in our bones, but it has many important functions elsewhere in your body as well. The level of calcium in your blood is critical, and is closely protected and monitored by your kidneys, which use vitamin […]
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8 Ways Gardening is Good for you!
Summer is the perfect time to get out there and enjoy your garden. Whether you have acres of rolling estate, or a tiny paved courtyard, make the most out of your outdoor space by growing flowers, fruit and vegetables – not only is it a pleasant way to spend your time, there are loads of other health benefits! Speeds up […]
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