ONE “offer” provoked more “raves” from clients than anything else I’ve done this last 12 months. Here’s a sample of the comments: === “I don’t know why… I’ve done it twice now, but whenever I get back pain I seem to accept it for too long always thinking it’s just going to go away on … Read more
Did you know that as you age you shrink? Well if you are already shorter than most, then this doesn’t sound too good. But do you know why? Each of your spinal joints has a disc in between each joint. These discs are actually a jelly-like fluid that actually leak when placed under pressure. Every … Read more
Last week I wrote about the importance of doing something “different” in order to keep things feeling “better”. And just a couple of days ago I got involved in a conversation with a reader of the column whilst I was out on my bike (who stopped me when I was waiting at traffic lights) and … Read more
I have seen two clients this month with two very different sports injuries, which made me think of the same question……is it really a sports injury? Case Study 1: The first was a 19 year old lady who had had recently started the increasingly popular “cross fit”, SHE was having problems in her lower back … Read more
Re: Samantha Dakers and our Specialist Postnatal Physio Team These two nice comments got left on the Facebook message board in reference to the great work done by Postnatal Specialist, Samamtha Dakers to help these two clients : The first is from a lady who has suffered with postnatal bak pain for YEARS… And this … Read more
One of my favourite Authors is Mark Twain (1835 – 19(1835 – 1910): I’ll come back to him in just a sec… But first, here’s a not so nice little story that starts like this: Life is defined by two things: The same two things that define happy and healthy people. …and the poor souls … Read more
Word for word, praise for our Physio team EVEN THOUGH (at the time of writing) we hadn’t made much progress with this ladies pain… === “Paul… I Just wanted to let you know how happy I am with your excellent physio team. I have suffered back problems, spd and have hypermobility of lots of my … Read more
Herein, I will “pull the curtain apart”…(on physio for back pain) Here are three questions and concerns we received from people following the email a couple days ago in which I asked for replies. I’ll use them as the context for my response about what physio is and what we do (for you) here. * … Read more
A few tips this week for anyone running with a stiff or bad back, or who wants to avoid one: First, a relevant little “preseason” story from my days as a pro football Physio… So, pre-season would come around and the running would commence. And it was customary back then for pretty much the entire … Read more
The temptation when you go (and then come back) from your summer holidays is to always think that where ever you’ve just been is “better than here” (as in, the town that you live in). But the reality is that it’s no better, it’s no worse, it’s just “different”. And because the people, the views, … Read more
