Is average healthcare service enough for Britain's most common ailment?
An Average Life
Morning Stiffness..
Muscles and joints can become stiff for many reasons...
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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Is a Stiff Spine really Stiff?
A lack of sensory motor integration can increase a feeling of stiffness, without actually stiffening the back
What can I do, I have back pain…?
The best things to do for a bad back pain episode has challenged people and medical doctors for generations. In the 1980's bed rest and even a hospital stay was the best option in the USA. In England traction was thought to be the answer to a tight contracted back, that was to gradually stretch …
Working through it…
Pushing your boundaries physically whilst avoiding injury. Fascia First Chiropractic
How might Back Pain run in families..?
Two recent studies seem to have conjoined in my mind; one is from Zurich University Chiropractic department showing brain activity relative to lumbar spine pressure such as might happen in low back pain syndromes. The other is about training mice to 'fear' a smell across their generations controlling for nurture. Answering the long debate of …
Tight Hamstrings
The classic example of somebody having a restriction in their flexibility and they feel it at the back of the legs is thought to mean tight hamstrings. Yet in a fascial model of the body the TFL muscle is actually under about twice the strain that the hamstring muscles are under during a straight leg …