Unlocking the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve by Luke Szabo
Unlocking the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve By Luke Szabo – Senior Integrative Naturopath, Clinical Nutritionist, Alchemical Herbalist & Vagus Nerve Practitioner The vagus nerve is a powerful and often overlooked player in our health. As the tenth cranial nerve and the longest of all brain nerves, it extends from the brainstem throughout […]
How Osteopathy Can Help To Thaw Out Your Frozen Shoulder by Richard Hillard
HOW OSTEOPATHY CAN HELP TO THAW OUT YOUR FROZEN SHOULDER with Richard Hillard Osteopathy offers numerous benefits for individuals dealing with frozen shoulder, a condition also known as adhesive capsulitis, characterised by pain and restricted movement. Through a combination of specialised techniques, osteopathic treatments provide relief, improve mobility, enhance circulation, offer a customised approach, and […]
Working from home? Find out the importance of ergonomics
An office job (be it an actual office or working from home) involves many hours of sitting. Unfortunately, prolonged sitting can add stress to the structures in the body and the spine. This promotes poor posture and is of concern to osteopaths, because postural deviation can lead to a more chronic picture of stress on […]
Suffering from pelvic pain? Osteopathy can help.
Osteopathy can help with so many conditions, but if you’re suffering from pelvic pain then this is worth a read. One of the fundamentals of osteopathy is to treat the whole person, rather than the symptoms. However, by treating the whole person, symptoms are also addressed! An osteopath takes an approach to wellness by understanding […]
Low Level Laser Therapy (Photobiomodulation) – as a potential treatment in the management of neuropathic pain?
Neuropathic pain is one of the most difficult to treat of all chronic pain conditions. This severe and sometimes unrelenting type of pain, is often described as burning, painful, cold or electric shocks and may be associated with tingling, pins and needles, numbness or itching. Neuropathic (nerve) pain is caused by damage, injury or dysfunction […]
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Treatment of Depression and Pain by Simon DuBois
By Simon DuBois, Psychologist The idea that an electric current through the brain might improve its functioning isn’t new. The physician of Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar described how placing live torpedo electric fish over the scalp could relieve headaches (1) . Most people associate brain stimulation treatments with electro-convulsive therapy – a psychiatric therapy […]
Addressing pain with low-level laser therapy (cold therapy) by Sam Gill
By Sam Gill, Chiropractor Most healthcare providers and patients are often looking for alternatives to pharmaceutical therapies when addressing various, acute and chronic, painful and inflammatory conditions. When inflammation becomes chronic it places the body under constant stress. This can interfere with your body’s healthy tissue function, resulting in permanent pain and disability, and can […]
Approaches to Pain Relief: Chiropractic, Physiotherapy and Osteopathy by Emily Holler
By Emily Holler Pain is a universal language. We all experience it at one time or another as it’s an unavoidable aspect of residing in our human body. It can manifest as very intense, acute pain such as that of childbirth or a broken bone, while some of us endure it daily with chronic conditions […]
Why an MRI could actually make your back pain worse by Simon Sullivan
by Simon Sullivan BHSc MOstMed Back pain is the most common reason that people visit an Osteopath, it is so ubiquitous that 80% of us will experience back pain sometime in our lives. So it makes sense that we should get all the information we can about our backs so we can make the best […]