Lifting safely while pregnant is important so that you can stay in the best of health for your upcoming birth. With older children home for the holidays, our osteopath Radhika Madahar shares some tips to stay pain-free and avoid back injury. Through your pregnancy, your centre of gravity shifts. This can impact your balance. Also,
Why Tennis Injuries Happen and How Osteopathy Can Help Did you know that tennis is said to be one of the most injury-prone sports? This is because it involves repetitive motions of the arm and shoulder, which can lead to muscle strains or tears, as well as a range of twisting and pivoting movements. Like
8 common workout injuries and how to prevent them. A workout injury can happen to anyone, regardless of fitness or gym experience. Below, we’ll look at the most common injuries and share tips for preventing them. If it’s too late for prevention, our osteopaths can help get you back to the gym. Gym injuries often
This week we launch our series of articles featuring the therapists who work at Osteo and Physio – and the problems they help solve and treat – beginning with sports therapist Alice Weekes. Educator, problem solver, listener… just some of the traits I utilise on a daily basis in my role as sports therapist at
Most of the people we treat feel that their posture could do with improving. Having good posture will certainly help prevent back pain from occurring, but it is worth mentioning that it is not possible to have perfect posture all of the time. Sitting upright at a desk will, of course, be better for you
Did you know that a quarter of the bones in your body are situated in your feet? Each foot has over 200,000 nerve endings, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles and is a biomechanical marvel of evolution. You will walk in excess of 100,000 miles in your life, with each foot bearing the cumulative load of
We often have patients that come in to see us that are unsure what has caused their back pain. One minute they were fine, the next their back hurts. What could be going on? Your back is actually incredibly strong and we are fortunate to be able to take for granted how strong it is
I wanted to emphasise how well designed and strong our backs actually are. Understandably, after an episode of pain people often feel that their backs are weak and vulnerable. This might lead to someone thinking that their back is fragile or that the back problem might last forever. Fortunately, this is usually not the case.
The action of bending forward is a common cause of low back pain. Simple (seemingly innocuous) movements such as washing the dishes, ironing or even just picking up the newspaper can place strain on the low back if performed incorrectly. It is the cumulative effects of these small but repetitive movements that can lead to
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