[caption id="attachment_18950" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Why does my knee or hip hurt in OA - osteoarthritis[/caption] Osteoarthritis (OA) – what is the latest research. Why do you hurt? Do you know why you hurt in OA? The real answers may surprise you. I recently attended an online course...
Often patients present with an injury/pain/illness that keeps recurring, for example they continually get a pain in their buttock or piriformis and treatment including stretches, needles or trigger points etc is temporary. Often they can be focused on the area of symptoms and previous diagnoses...
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In my work as a holistic integrative physiotherapist I see people with mostly chronic issues not acute. More often than not driving these conditions is an underlying unaddressed state of ‘stress’. Living in chronic stress often means the elevated cortisol and adrenaline have your muscles...
I have not posted any new blogs for a while, nor have I posted to Instagram. I thought I would copy some of my Instagram posts or parts of them here as I have already written in these posts much of my treatment philosophy and...
We cannot change anything unless we are aware that something needs changing! If you do not know you are doing something, how do you know you may need to change that action/thought/behaviour? If something is not working in your life then that can be a...
Research has shown that there are no pain receptors in the body only receptors/nociceptors that detect unpleasant stimuli. The unpleasant impulses get sent to the brain areas for processing and it is the brain that determines if you will feel pain or if you do...
I am a wholistic & a holistic physiotherapist - but what is that exactly? What do I do? The answer is not easy for me to answer, for I no longer see physical injuries as just physical injuries - at least not very often, these...
This blog follows on from my previous one: Why are my pains/injuries always on one side? Fascia/connective tissue connects every part of the body.(It’s in its name) Fascia is the human equivalent of the internet, it connects everything and there is no central control. Fascia surrounds...
Why are my injuries/pain always on the right side of the body? Why are my issues always on the same side of my body? These are questions I have asked myself and have heard from patients over the years. As a wholistic fascia physiotherapist I...