Risks of Long Term Ibuprofen Use Almost everyone at some point has taken ibuprofen to alleviate pain. I took it last 2 years ago. I had a nasty earache brought on by swimming in polluted seas. Not really being a medication kind of person I was, naively, blown away when it worked. I only took […]
Fascia & Back Pain… The Specific reason for your non-specific back pain? If you go to your doctor with back pain you’ll more than likely get a diagnosis of “non-specific” lower back pain. This is the majority diagnosis – approximately 90% of lower back pain is diagnosed as non specific. Non-specific is a technical term […]
Acupuncture For Hayfever I used to dread this time of year. From now until September I would suffer badly with hay fever. For 3 decades it stalked me; sneezing, running nose, itchy eyes I got it all. At school I struggled to concentrate and was in a minority of one who who always had a […]
Acupuncture For Knee Pain If you’re over 45 and complain of activity related pain, with minimal morning stiffness, according to NICE, you can be given a diagnosis of osteo-arthritis of the knee by your GP – sometimes even over the phone. (https://www.nice.org.uk/…/ng226/chapter/Recommendations…). The subsequent treatment approach endorsed by NICE consists mostly of exercise, weight loss […]
Acupuncture For Anxiety Treatment for anxiety is not a quick fix. I frequently find anxiety is something that has deep roots, often traced back to childhood. Behavioural patterns become entrenched, like a well trodden path through a field of long grass. Look at the image at the top of this page. A path leads from […]
How Acupuncture Treatment Works Acupuncture treatment for pain progresses in a reasonably predictable pattern from the red light phase of crippling pain through to the green light of getting your life back… The red stage of treatment. Pain is so acute that movement is problematic. And the pain may be impacting things you used to […]
Fascia & Pain Until recently fascia was the thing that surgeons cut through to get to the interesting bits. It’s cast aside to access and assess the state of internal organs, muscles, nerves, blood vessels and tendons. Fascia itself is a thin layer of connective tissue, like a sausage skin, that sits under the skin […]
Are You As Healthy As You Think? The World Health Organisation define Health as follows: “Health is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease”. Using this definition, would you define yourself as healthy? You could probably argue that the majority of the population are not healthy. […]
When Plantar Fasciitis Treatment Fails… The characteristic pain of plantar fasciitis hits when you first get up. Foot down on the floor and ouch! you know about it. The pain tends to ease as you get going and the tissue warms up. It is a pain that is easy to define because it hurts so […]
Why You Need to Stretch… We’re becoming less flexible. A study between 1966 and 2012 of American schoolchildren has shown that they’ve become less flexible, probably from a lack of activity and a more sedentary lifestyle. Its only since the invention of chairs that us humans have sat. Previously we rested by squatting on our […]
