Interesting debate on at the moment with the NHS considering giving breast feeding mothers £200 worth of shopping vouchers as an incentive. There is little doubt that breast feeding is hugely advantageous, and that the numbers of new mums in the UK that do, is...
A UK Cardiologist has been in the news recently. He has published an opinion piece in the British Medical Journal. He has been talking about the obsession we have for lowering Cholesterol levels by any means, including taking Statin medication. His concern is based around...
As a Registered Osteopath, I am often in the situation of speaking to patient's GPs regarding medication for their acute lower back pain. Sometimes it a very positive experience, I feel part of a "united health" team helping the patient every which way. Other times...
Just been reading a research paper on symptoms awareness in the over 50s. I'm afraid it is just confirmation of what we see at Openhealth Clinic all the time. 11,000 men and women aged 50 and over, were asked about their knowledge of diseases and...
Here at Openhealth Clinic, we are seeing more and more joint replacements. A hip is one of the more common joints to be replaced. The good news is that in the eight years between 2003 and 2011, of 400,000 operations, death rates recorded within 90...
This is good. Plug you brain in though, it isn't the usual Back Pain blog!! Telomeres are "caps" situated at the end of our chromosomes. They help prevent loss of genetic information as our cells divide. Cell division is part of the normal ageing process....
Spent the afternoon out of Openhealth Clinic recently, visiting an operating theatre. I observed a series of Private procedures, where the patient list ran like clockwork. Each patient was given their anaesthetic, prepared, operated on and returned to the recovery room with a military type precision....
Interesting article on a council scheme in the Midlands to get people into exercise. "Be Active" has been running since 2008 and some 360,000 people have signed up for it. This apparently equates to about 1/3 of the local population. Across Birmingham, 29 leisure facilities have...
Here at Openhealth we are always asked for advice on beds and mattresses. Difficult to answer as there are so many variables, your preferred sleeping position, your size, previous injuries, restlessness etc etc. There has been a review of recent research papers, so we thought...
At Openhealth we firmly believe in the important part Nutrition has to play in life today. Our in house Nutritionalist is very much involved in working alongside our manual therapists. Manual therapy creates the environment for the body to heal itself, nutrition provides the ingredients...