
What is osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a system of manual medicine, which means we mainly treat with our hands.
Osteopathy is a system of manual medicine, which means we mainly treat with our hands.
Exercise can – at least for a while – suppress local and systemic inflammation.
I’m often asked by patients, “What’s most important for my back – being good at bending forward or at bending backwards?”
Joint manipulation in the spine is a highly focussed, fast and small movement of the joint.
Both cold and warmth act as pain blockers, but they have different healing effects.
This video shows a simple exercise that can ‘wake-up’ key spinal muscles that, when not working as they should, prevent the spine from bending forward correctly.
Some principles of food and eating that you might find useful and interesting.
Yoga is an excellent and structured program aimed at improving muscle tone and endurance, balance, health and flexibility. But it isn’t risk-free.
A primal exercise is one where the whole body is used in an integrated way.
If you are over fifty, always have your hair washed leaning forward over the sink, and never backwards.
Over the next decade or two, we are likely to see a better understanding of what medicines work best for an individual.
Sneezing – the wrong way – puts a massive strain through the whole spine. Here’s how to avoid putting your back out through a sneeze.
I wrote a paper on HVT back in 2002. If I remember correctly, I was trying to put my thoughts in order after a spell teaching technique at the UCO. In draft form, it gathered dust on a shelf at the back of my office.
Tidying things up the other day during some lockdown boredom, I stumbled across it. Leafing through it, it was like looking back through time. It did seem a little rambling, to say the least.
But the intention of the paper was good. Why does manipulation (cavitation) of a spinal joint work best with high speed over a short distance? We had this drummed into us at the UCO. Why not slow speed over a longer distance?
So I’ve taken some ideas out of that paper and freshened them up.