Massage therapy does have it’s place in certain situations of course. Saying otherwise would be disingenuous and inaccurate. However, many of my clients often ask me; “how effective is massage therapy and other similar therapies really for dealing with chronic issues and even acute body complaints”? This article will help answer that question. The field of chiropractic as well as […]
Spine mobility is something most of us will lose gradually as we age but is it just ageing or is there more to it? Don’t worry, we don’t all need to be contortionists but we should however all have the basic and correct amount of spine mobility. Here we will try another simple test to objectively measure and see the […]
Knee pain or ankle pain can be quite common in a lot of people. This is especially true when you consider that our lower limbs (legs) have a lot of work to do carrying us along and moving us from A to B. Often it is thought that a weakness in the leg or leg joints is the reason for […]
What Is Sciatica? ‘Sciatica’ is a Latin term that simply means ‘leg pain’. This is a pain that radiates from the lower back and down the leg along the sciatic nerve. This is a rather uncomfortable pain and can even cause some people momentary feelings of paralysis. Breakdown of Pathology To help better understand imagine your sciatic nerve (pictured) as […]
Symptoms associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (commonly referred to as wrist pain and sometimes repetitive strain injury (RSI)) usually include numbness, tingling, pins and needles as well as weakness of the hand. The issue stems from the median nerve not working as it should. It was commonly thought that the pinching of the median nerve was resulting in carpal tunnel […]