Stretch & Exercise
Yoga for Back Pain Relief
Yoga has become one of the most popular forms of exercise throughout the world. It is a wonderful way to still the mind, relieve stress, tension and recreate and maintain a healthy body. However Yoga can also help you reduce back pain and maintain a strong posture for life.
Tennis Elbow Relief: What Massage Can Do
Tennis Elbow or Lateral Epicondylitis as it is technically known, is a common overuse injury of the forearm where pain is caused from gripping, and movements of the wrist. However, your pain may not actually be Tennis Elbow!! Read on to find out how massage can help…
Easing back pain with a seat cushion
The back is a complicated structure of bones, joints, ligaments and muscles, where any issues with these components can lead to the development of low back pain. Low back pain is a very common health problem worldwide which may affect performance at work and play, and have detrimental effects on your general well-being. The causes […]
AiM – Some simple movement practices that will profoundly shift chronic pain
I recently sent out an email about AiM – Anatomy In Motion, and had such an overwhelming response that I have decided to write a whole blog post about this amazing movement therapy. Massage and bodywork is essential for our well-being, however, much of the muscle pain and related issues (e.g. headaches) we experience throughout […]
3 Super Easy Tips to Avoid Neck Pain at Work
The majority of clients I see every week in the studio are all suffering from neck and shoulder pain and they all say the same thing – It’s from being stuck at a desk all week at work! Maybe you can relate, long hours, slumped at your desk, the pressure of work building up.. Then […]
Golf Swing and Lower Back Pain
The golf swing is a complex movement that uses the whole body to generate power, propelling the golf ball with extreme accuracy over vast distances. Professional golfers have highly refined nervous system muscle sequence activation, “muscle memory” from years of precise repetition, allowing for the perfect execution of an array of complex unilateral body movements, […]
Got Sciatica or Piriformis Syndrome?
Sciatica commonly describes the symptoms of pain that radiate along the sciatic nerve and tend to be felt in the buttocks and down the back of the leg and sometimes right to the foot. Sciatica is a condition caused by compression of the spinal nerves in the lower back, from possible herniated disk at L4/L5 […]
Massage Therapy Effective for Relieving Tension Headache
Headaches are such a pain and most of us will experience a headache from time to time, however what is shocking is that around 4% of people the world over suffer from chronic daily headaches! They are by far one of the most debilitating of conditions to suffer from, especially if you experience them regularly.