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Vertigo is a truly horrible and disabling condition. Symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, headaches, sweating, tinnitus in addition to feeling like they’re spinning, tilting, swaying etc. When vertigo doesn’t respond to the Epley manoeuvre, or similar, looking at a clients history is a good place to start. Any history or tightness / discomfort at the…
Continue Reading After attending a conference in London a client presented with restricted neck mobility, looking to the side and down was very restricted and looking up wasn’t great either, lugging a brick of a laptop with its failing battery probably didn’t help much either. After rushing across London and arriving late they didn’t want to make…
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A client presented in clinic with chronic bilateral neck and shoulder pain. They had occasional headaches, and minor continence issues since the birth of their last child. They would get coccyx discomfort when they sat working at their laptop for prolonged periods at work. This also seemed to be the trigger for the neck and…
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Yep, that’s right it’s whiplash season 😱 Late summer / early autumn (and spring time) when the sun is low in the sky as people are driving to and from work is prime time for a whiplash incident. Obviously if this happens to you, there are all sorts of cervical (neck) and extraocular compensations that…
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Pain and discomfort across the top of the shoulders and lower neck when riding your road or mountain bike? It could be your Serratus posterior superior is part of the problem – it’s an accessory muscle of inhalation. Correcting breathing issues, optimising inspiration and expiration patterns, can have such a profound effect not only in…
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A client presented at clinic with chronic shoulder pain and restricted range of motion. They’d been unable to put their put their arm behind their back (as if doing a bra clasp) or lift their arm above their shoulder since falling up their front step and jarring their arm as they tried to protect themselves….
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When you play piano, the left hand does a fair amount more of the intricate work than the right, on balance. Typically relegated to chord work or thumb sliding it has a pretty easy life as long as you have enough reach to span an octave. I had a client come in this weekend who…
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A client came in with soreness and feeling of instability in the neck region. Sure enough when we tested, everything seemed less than happy, but mostly low tone. When asked what had happened, their preschooler had given them a really tight hug around the neck whilst they were bent over to reach their level. Whilst…
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VERTIGO – a truly horrible and disabling condition. Symptoms can include nausea, vomiting 🤮, headaches, sweating, tinnitus in addition to feeling like they’re spinning, tilting, swaying etc. In many case, where inner ear and brain issues have been ruled out, this is eminently treatable. Eye, jaw and breathing dysfunctions as well as local muscle dysfunctions…
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In clinic we always release a tight area with the intention of making somewhere else stronger! Sometimes, about 5% of the time, in my experience, the area which needs release is where the pain is being experienced. The other 95% is spent understanding that the patterns of compensation in our body’s run deep and it…
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