When we are on holiday and out of our usual routines, we can cause ourselves unnecessary discomfort and stress by injuring ourselves. A good start to your holiday preparations is to take note of these top tips for an injury free holiday. Keep these tips in mind for a safe…
When you think about the term ‘stress’, your mind probably jumps straight to feelings of emotional negativity. Whilst this can definitely be the case with many forms of stress I prefer to think of it as multifaceted: Emotional, Physical and Chemical/Nutritional. In some cases stress is actually good for us,…
Once again time has flown by and it is already the New Year, preparing for a prosperous year ahead with family and friends. For many of us it’s a time of reflection and resolution, acknowledging the gift of time with your family, and enjoying the adventure as we watch our…
If you think about it, you cannot argue with the title of this article. Whatever investments that you may have, pension fund, property, cash, it all means nothing if you don’t have your health. Infact once you lose your health it could cost you all your monetary wealth to get…
Spring is upon us, and for many of us, it is the time of year to start sorting out the house and garden after the winter hibernation. For most this process runs incident free as we prepare for summer. As a Chiropractor, I see many injuries related to overactivity, as…
As the New Year begins, many of us are starting a new regimen of physical exercise on the road to better health, but how do we know if what we are doing is helping or hindering us? Physical exercise places a stress on the body, it is up to us…
It’s that time of year again where many of us start to plan out our New Year’s resolutions. The majority of which I hear about involve exercising more, eating better, losing weight, and in general becoming healthier. Unfortunately, many people do not know how to go about achieving this seemingly…
As I write this article I am sitting at the airport at 5.53 am about to board a plane to Dublin to do the Active Release Technique (ART) Upper Extremity course. So what could possibly be so valuable to get me out of bed at 4am on a Thursday morning…
Spring is upon us and as is tradition we get out into the garden, spring clean the house and decorate the rotting shed. What also seems to be a tradition is that all this DIY (especially gardening) leads to a lot more crisis calls to our office, but it doesn’t…
If you are like a lot of my patients you also wake up in the morning with a stiff lower back. You may even experience low back pain first thing. Why does this happen and what can you do about it? The most common reason you may have low back…
Every week we have many patients coming to our clinic complaining of tension in their shoulders and neck. The most common culprit of this very common problem is over activity of a muscle called the upper trapezuis, or “traps” for short. The upper traps (there is also a middle and…
