Back Pain: Strength vs. Endurance

Are you someone plagued by low back pain? Have you been told that stretching and strengthening the low back muscles will help ease your pain?  These are two common misconceptions, it is thought that stretching the back muscles and increasing the range of motion will...

Osteopathy – it’s not just for bones and joints!

Lots of people ask me what osteopathy is and how it helps.  They assume osteopathy means bones, but Osteopathy is bigger than that.  Originally, the word was coined by Andrew Still in 1974, using the Greek words to describe “Bone” and “Sensitive to” as a description...

Brain Injury Awareness Month

June is Brain Injury Awareness Month and most brain injuries fall into 1 of 2 categories: Traumatic brain injury which involves physical trauma due to accidents, neurosurgery etc. Non-traumatic brain injury from an internal or external source such as stroke, brain...

Arthritis Awareness

Arthritis by definition means inflammation of the joints and for the most part is divided into Autoimmune arthritis’ (rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis), septic arthritis due to an infection and osteoarthritis (OA). OA, the most common form of arthritis, is...