What is Pain?
What is Pain? Your pain nerves are trying to stimulate your brain all the time. Thankfully most of the signals never make it through as other nerves stop the messages from getting higher up. The nerves that send pain are called nociceptive nerves. Nocioception is the...
Back Pain Prevalence
Back Pain Prevalence Back Pain Audit shows worrying trend. Recent National Pain Audit figures show a worrying trend. A staggering 20% of health expenditure in the UK is now spent on back pain services. Chronic pain affects 8-60% of the population depending on the...
Is Your Posture Saying Something About Your Brain?
Is Your Posture Saying Something about Your Brain? Poor posture can be a sign that there is a weakness in your brain function. Take a look in a full length mirror at yourself and see if the following applies to you. A commonly seen aberrant posture in clinic is one...
Paracetomol and Back pain
Paracetomol and Back pain Paracetomol ineffective as treatment for back and joint pain. Last week (April 2015) a study was published in the British Medical Journal that got a lot of headlines. An analysis of 13 quality trials showed that Paracetomol is no better than...
It’s winter so time to top up the Vitamin D3
It's winter so time to top up the Vitamin D3 In the winter Vitamin D3 is the supplement you should be taking. If I asked you what was the most important vitamin for fighting colds what would your answer be? Many people think it’s vitamin C. It is certainly important...
Ongoing Spinal Manipulative Care Shown To Be More Beneficial Than Short Course Of Treatment.
Ongoing Spinal Manipulative Care Shown To Be More Beneficial Than Short Course Of Treatment It has long been a subject of hot debate between the medical profession and Chiropractors about the efficacy of longer term patient management programs. In a...
Don’t Slip Up Twice!
Don’t Slip Up Twice! Slipping Once On Ice Is Unlucky But Not Getting Checked Out After Is A Second Slip Up! With the recent cold snap we were all left taking tentative steps, for some the result was a crash down to earth. I saw 2 people do it myself. A fall onto one’s...
Ten Top Tips To Avoid Back Pain Or Other Injuries This Christmas
Ten Top Tips To Avoid Back Pain Or Other Injuries This Christmas A Look At Potential Pitfalls In A Festive Spirit. It’s Christmas! Well not quite, but the infamous words of Noddy Holder have probably been ringing out for a while now on the high street, but I wouldn’t...
Longer Term Use Of Cortico-steroids For Tendinopathies Worse Than No Treatment At All.
Longer Term Use Of Cortico-steroids For Tendinopathies Worse Than No Treatment At All GPs are being advised to only use short courses of steroid injections to treat tendinopathies, after a systematic review found using them for longer can produce worse results than no...
What is Health?
What is Health? This is a fundamentally important question when considering a “healthy” spine or body. In the Western World health care is concerned mainly with getting you painfree, and unfortunately in general only lip service is paid to the preventative side of...
Is Functional Weakness Dragging You Down?
Is Functional Weakness Dragging You Down? Are You Firing On All Cylinders? In order for your body to move well with minimal effort and maximum control you need a nervous system that detects and modifies muscle tone accurately. If there is poor detection of movement,...
Preventative Care For The Low Back
Preventative Care For The Low Back The Basics Of Back Pain Prevention When you get low back pain it can be excruciating, it can also be quite frightening for the uninitiated. Most of the time the damage caused is actually slight and the body’s reaction is...