Lower Back Pain Tag

12 Jun Low Back Pain – Four Points to Consider

Posted at 15:51h in Back Pain, Health & Wellness, Injuries, Management of Injuries, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy, Pilates & Yoga, Sports Injury Rehabilitation by Toby Pollard-Smith 0 Comments

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Research around low back pain is changing. It’s no longer all about treatment techniques or new exercises but rather explores what we know about patients suffering from persistent back pain, and how they interact with the world around them. We thought it would be useful...

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02 Oct Core Blimey – 7 Myths about your Core

Posted at 16:41h in Back Pain, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy, Pilates & Yoga, Sports Injury Rehabilitation by Toby Pollard-Smith 0 Comments

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Many of our patients, especially those with low back pain, are concerned that they have weak core muscles, and that weakness in this area has either contributed to their current pain or will predispose them to more pain in the future. This is a topic that...

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14 Feb 7 Problems with Imaging

Posted at 00:00h in Back Pain, Hip Pain, Neck Pain, Physiotherapy by jaijo 0 Comments

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To many people, imaging techniques seem to be the last word in finding out what is wrong with them. In many cases, such investigations, such as X-ray, CT and MRI, can indeed identify the cause of illness or disease, but when it comes to musculoskeletal...

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18 Nov Some Thoughts on Rotation

Posted at 00:00h in Elbow & Wrist Pain, Osteopathy, Shoulder Pain by jaijo 0 Comments

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One of the movements that our practitioners look at with a lot of our patients is the ability to rotate. Can you rotate when you need to? Or are you rotating too much when you shouldn't? Often, our patients tell us that they do some rotation...

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27 Apr Osteopathy, Holism, and Elephants

Posted at 00:00h in Cranial Osteopathy, Osteopathy by jaijo 0 Comments

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It’s time for a blog entry about osteopathy, and to be honest I’ve been nervous about it. This is because osteopathy is different from osteopath to osteopath, and some osteopaths can get quite vitriolic when they come across a version of osteopathy that is inconsistent...

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18 Jan The three Rs!

Posted at 00:00h in Back Pain, Neck Pain, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy by jaijo 0 Comments

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  [caption id="attachment_851" align="alignright" width="300"] Joints in the lumbar spine can radiate pain through the back, and into the glutes and thighs[/caption] Patients usually come to see us here at Openhealth because they're in pain. Our job as therapists is to understand the root cause of that...

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03 Jun Pain – Men & Women – It’s the same right?

Posted at 00:00h in Osteopathy, Physiotherapy, Sports Injury Rehabilitation, Uncategorized by jaijo 0 Comments

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Interesting research article recently looking at pain perceptions in both Men and Women. In the past, there has been some conflicting research on the subject, but this seems to have been a little different. It was based on 10,000 people who had had cardiac or abdominal...

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06 Oct Men – Man up!!!

Posted at 00:00h in Uncategorized by jaijo 0 Comments

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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...

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09 Mar Technological Advances ???

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Here at Openhealth Clinic, we have become more and more accustomed to organising MRI scans for patients. As such we have developed a relationship with Vista Diagnostics, an imaging centre right by Waterloo Station. They offer a very good service, providing a written report within...

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18 Nov Run v Bike – The morning after the day before!

Posted at 00:00h in Uncategorized by jaijo 0 Comments

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Just a quick word for all you "reticent" runners out there. At Openhealth Clinic we have been doing more bike and less running over these last six months. Don't get me wrong, I love my running. I only do between 3 to 4 miles, ...

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