Articles to help and inform
Christmas is a time for happiness and celebrating, but it isn’t without it’s risks. As always, awareness of the risks helps with prevention, so see below for the common conditions that may put a downer on your festive season. Hypoteleconfectionaria A rapid onset of deep sleep in the afternoon of Christmas Day, usually after getting […]
Osteopathy, like all medicine, is not always an exact science. Each patient is an individual and each set of symptoms must be regarded as unique in order to be fully understood and effectively treated. Even if practised at its optimum level using all the tools available osteopathy and its methods may not immediately work for […]
Those of you who play season based sports such as football or rugby are probably on the cusp of pre-season training before launching yourselves towards glory in your chosen competition. Do you want to improve on last season’s performance? Have you thought about how to best use pre-season to ensure better future performance? Well below are […]
Tennis is a great summer sport, in Britain it is characterised for most of us by long summer days watching the rain fall and waiting for play to resume at Wimbledon. Although, some of us do play tennis (an ever decreasing amount though), and those who do tend mainly to be aged over 45 with […]
As we have mentioned in our Patient’s Guide to Knee Pain, there is good evidence that appropriate manual therapy and exercise prescription can help with various types of knee pain such as osteoarthritis, ligament strains and tendon problems. If the knee is severely damaged the surgery may be indicated to help stabilise the knee or repair the […]
Firstly, if you made it round, congratulations! Your training paid off and everything went well on the day. If you didn’t make it round then maybe you were unfortunate with injury or something else went wrong on the day which stopped you getting round, which can happen to the most prepared runner, sometimes it’s just […]
There is no greater example of how the body can adapt and change than throughout pregnancy. During pregnancy the mum-to-be has to adapt to major physical changes in a relatively short space of time, these changes, hormonal and structural, are all intended to help support the needs of the growing foetus. Sometimes these changes can […]
