A chiropractors perspective on what goes into a Chiropractic Check Up...
An Average Life
Is average healthcare service enough for Britain's most common ailment?
Muscle Pain
Commonly muscular pain is talked about when a person considers their pain to be a non serious pain. However muscle pain can be intense, constant, long lasting, and out of proportion with the severity of actual tissue damage. One component of muscular injury is hypo-perfusion of blood. Anything that can cause a reduction of blood …
Morning Stiffness..
Muscles and joints can become stiff for many reasons...
What it means to have a sensation of stiffness…
When you have a lot to get done, people relying upon you, demanding work, a busy social life, family expectations and the mundane of the everyday tasks that 'need' doing one can paraphrase this experience as stressful. Stress as a word has so many meanings it may as well be equivalent to no content. When …
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Psychosocial Determinants of Musculoskeletal Pain
Musculoskeletal pain is essentially pain felt in the body or thought to be coming from muscles and joints (tendons, ligaments and fascia also). Psychosocial describes factors in a persons life that affect, impact, alter or change the way a person thinks and socialises. I joke in my practice that the cause of back and neck …
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When deep pain is not deep trouble
Croton Oil an old psychiatric punishment for patients being held at a psychiatric hospital and is these days used for skin exfoliation. When Croton oil is topically applied it can give us an idea of the type of pain that originates at the dermis, the most superficial section of fascia in the human body. Croton …
Fascia.. ‘I’m over it’..
Tom Myers is well known to have disseminated knowledge of human anatomy whilst attempting to tie into his Rolfing practice the felt experience of having a human body. Myers has been touted as the Father of Fascia, quoted by a Canadian Masseur come science writer as being 'over it'(1). The architecture of the cell is …
How Not To Utilise Chiropractic Care!
Chiropractic Care includes the interventions and advice given to you by your Chiropractor in your treatment session. I don't really know why but some people save up a long list of things for their Chiropractor to 'fix' during a session. Perhaps it is value for money or not feeling as though you need much help …
Rib Pain…in Pregnancy…
Doing nothing about costochondritis whilst pregnant can risk complications during delivery