I’ve been saying this for years, the body tends to generate heat and inflammation during a sprained ankle etc, so keeping it warm, with (or without) appropriate compression (to support the joint without restricting mobility) are the ways to go. Now someone’s made a video about it, so hopefully you’ll think I’m less of a…
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Why we prioritise your core when there’s a problem with your extremities 👨🏻🎓 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29246794/ Abdominal stability for the (long term) win 🧠💪🏻 Experience the difference – A refreshingly different approach to pain and dysfunction, so you can breathe better, move better, to live better.
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A client came to see me a few weeks back. They’d been having intense jaw pain ever since having their gall bladder removed 2 years ago. They ‘knew’ it had been ‘caused’ by the surgery, but nobody was listening. 😞 The original consultant had signed them off. They’d been referred to the pain clinic, their…
Continue Reading You may hear the term “gone limbic” in clinic, typically when, suddenly, everything shuts down. But what does that mean? The primary structures within the limbic system include the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, and cingulate gyrus. Their functions are a diverse mix, but essentially boils down to safety, ie keeping you safe. The…
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It is a great privileged to have been certified (with flying colours I might add 😉) at Masters level for my Neurokinetic Therapy practice. I join an elite level of only 169 registered practitioners worldwide, and just 28 in the whole U.K. I couldn’t have done it without all the interesting people that are referred…
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Scars are rich with nerve endings and are often the source of a great deal of dysfunction. These dysfunctions are thankfully very treatable, but there’s always lessons to be learnt along the way too. I had an existing client come to me post surgery. It was a lump removal from their labia, a sensitive issue…
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I had a client come in that I’ve been seeing for a while working on a post operative hip scar which has been causing all sorts of gait (walking) issues. We’ve been making excellent progress to date (I say ‘we’, it’s mostly them, as they do the hard bit!) This time when I saw them,…
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Sometimes the pain is just so severe when someone comes to see me there’s no way we can do any neurological testing. The positions needed for the manual muscle testing are excruciating, if not impossible to achieve, and / or they are limbic (see my bucket post) which means we can’t even use indicator testing….
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The longer injuries go untreated, the more complicated and difficult they become to treat, so it was with mixed emotions I saw a client this week. Obviously gutted they’d had an issue which needed treatment, but overjoyed they were seeing me less than a week after it had occurred. An evening netball game involved a…
Continue Reading One of my clients was telling me about this – looks like some really great designs for those who need wheelchair access etc https://secretaccess.co.uk
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