| TX - Cranial / Head, TX - Shoulders, Arms, Wrists & Hands
A client presented after having bilateral shoulder operations over a decade ago. The NHS assigned a physio post operatively, but restricted range of motion, and pain on certain movements has persisted ever since. It’s disappointing when surgery doesn’t deliver the kind of results you’d hoped for. For the last few months we’ve (its very much…
Continue Reading At the other end of the pelvic floor spectrum we have piles (haemorrhoids) 💩 Piles can occur randomly, and they can happen to anyone; male or female, young or old. However, constipation is thought to be a big trigger for piles as the straining can put pressure on the blood vessels in that area. Piles…
Continue Reading I’ve been asked, often, why my posts are so technical, with lots of anatomical information. Part of the explanation is; I love learning, and want to pass on that knowledge 🤩 The other part is I have a desire for people to realise / acknowledge they are fully capable of anything they put their mind…
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I’ve talked about I’ll fitting bra’s and skinny jeans before (see end of the post). Today I find myself guilty of the same 😞 Five years ago, and for almost a decade before that I was seriously into my cycling. In one year, when I recorded my mileage, I did well over 10000 miles. I…
Continue Reading New guidance on activity levels for pregnant women. It’s based on a literature review, and encompasses a number of recommendations for women by subgroup etc, and includes the strength of recommendation, and the quality of evidence to back up the recommendations. What this means is, where there is low quality evidence etc, the recommendation is…
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| Latest News, TX - Pelvic Floor, TX - Scars, TX - Spinal, Torso, Breathing
This week I had a client present with hip pain after running a race and hitting a PB for their 10k. We discussed what had happened over the phone before the session, and it sounded reasonably straight forward, a hip rotator issue was most likely, but we would check things out when I saw them…
Continue Reading | TX - Pelvic Floor, TX - Scars, TX - Spinal, Torso, Breathing
If we talk about birthing in clinic, we would normally discuss optimised breathing patterns, core stability and intra abdominal pressure pre birth to ensure you are in as good a place as possible for the delivery, hopefully lessening the need for a section or other interventions etc (and more so if VBAC is planned). If…
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| Latest News, Reminders, TX - Bra
Find out more about your ‘killer clothes’ below 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 I’ve written about the issues of tight and I’ll fitting bra’s before. https://www.facebook.com/100023472213473/posts/256570421802030/ https://www.facebook.com/100023472213473/posts/253631042095968/ But did you know it’s not just bra’s which can cause you issues. With the arrival of the skinny jean, and a tendency to for people, men and women, to favour tighter…
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So pleased to have received this testimonial the other day 🙏🏻 “I have been seeing Marcus for 6 sessions for work on my C-section scar and post pregnancy core work. After a difficult period with fertility issues and then a complicated pregnancy and birth resulting in an emergency C-section and hemorrhaging I was left with…
Continue Reading There are two images attached to this post, the first taken after the first treatment (so there is some small improvement on what the client presented with). The second is 6 treatments later. Whilst the images don’t tell the whole story, lets start with them, working from the left to right of the picture. In…
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