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Healthy joints through movement
I have finally succumbed to the fact that not only have I become a soccer mum, running my two sons to soccer practice, their games and now summer soccer, I have also taken on the responsibility of becoming the cricket taxi driver with the added involvement of watching...
The comfort crisis. It’s killing us.
I’ve just finished reading the book by Michael Easter called ‘The Comfort Crisis’. He reports that 3/4 of our jobs are now sedentary. The implications of this on our health are mostly negative. It is true that sedentary jobs, in which people spend long periods of time...
What exercise should you do?
We all know that exercise is meant to be good for you, and if you’re like me, then perhaps you often feel that you could (or should) be doing more. But what exercise should you do? Well, I get asked this question a lot. In fact, it’s one of the most frequent...
VICKI with her tips on how to juggle kids, washing and exercise
1. Use exercise (in this case walking), to commute. 2. Make it a little hard so that you have to walk back to the car. 3. Be in nature - more dopamine and endorphins to dampen pain and enhance well-being. 4. Do a 'life job' at the same...
Do you have pain and feel like you’re alone on this one?
That was me. I didn't think to ask if anyone else had experienced the pain I feel after cold water swimming - I do a lot of that. Turns out, after a passing comment, and a day of feeling that someone had put a hammer to my nipples after a swim, that it's a thing!...
Why is osteopathy called osteopathy?
What do you think of when you read the word osteopathy? Usually, the first thing people think of is –bones, because that’s what osteo means. The other idea is that it has to do with a pathology, but this isn’t the case. While bones do play a role they aren’t the whole...
The body is a unit – Philosophy of Osteopathy
It can often be confusing for patients coming to see an osteopath when we end up working on a part of their body seemingly unrelated to the problem they came in for. Often what happens at the osteopaths is hard for people to explain to their friends and family, and it...
EDS Awareness Month
May is EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) awareness month Having EDS means your collagen is faulty. As collagen is found throughout the body, the condition is multi-systemic and lifelong. It is genetic, there is no cure and it’s difficult to diagnose. My experience of EDS...
Our EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) community – why we have such compassion for chronic pain patients
Here's a little of why we do what we do for the EDS community. The main thing is that you know we get it. We really do. All our staff have done extra training and I've been in this journey since I qualified as an osteopath and realised that I was seeing patients...