
Covid-19 Policy
The day before the appointment The day before or the morning of your appointment, you will receive by email or text a screening web-form containing a set of questions. The
The day before the appointment The day before or the morning of your appointment, you will receive by email or text a screening web-form containing a set of questions. The
In some types of spinal problem, the entire muscle group of the low back goes into a kind of protective and panicky spasm
Anxiety – and even panic attacks – seems to be up to 7 times more common in hypermobile people than in the general population.
Do you find it difficult to understand and recall all the terminology regarding test accuracy? You know, the stuff you vaguely remember covering in a Research Methods class at undergraduate level?
Would you struggle to clearly explain the meaning of a term like sensitivity to a patient or fellow-professional?
If the answer to either of these two questions is yes, then this short course will help re-orientate you by taking you through the subject in a way that enables comprehension and recall.
Given the current pandemic, I think it pertinent to use Covid-19 to illustrate the key points!
New advice on the long-term use of anti-inflammatories and pain-killers to manage persisting pain.
Here are my thoughts on how I conceptualise lumbo-sacral segment dysfunction (LS) and approach the treatment of this area.
There are some issues worth bearing in mind for those of you with a spinal problem who want to wear heels.
It’s possible to sit properly in two different ways. Active versus passive sitting.
How you can help your immune system perhaps cope better with the virus if you catch it.
The joints, discs, ligaments, muscles and nerves of the human spine don’t like being still for too long. And we spend up to a third of our lives on a mattress!
I use the standing one-legged balance test a lot, finding it helps a great deal in the interpretation and prediction of lumbar spine dysfunction. This short article gives a summary of the issues, and I hope to write more on this at some point.
Sub-optimal breathing can contribute to and even cause a variety of health problems. Better breathing can be regained quickly, even in long-term cases.
An osteopathic view of referred pain and some of its implications.
Here’s a short article which tries to integrate or balance how patient’s see things with how we see things, all in the context of developing a structured thought-process.
Here’s a short article – somewhat of a brain-dump, I’m afraid – with key points about the thoracic spine that I’ve developed and found useful over the last twenty or so years.
If our body doesn’t work well, the process of regulating inflammation doesn’t function as it should.