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Pregnancy pain

I treat a lot of patients that present to me with spinal and pelvic pain during pregnancy. The predominant reasons for pregnancy pain are due to massive changes to the shape of the spine as well as the pelvis over a relatively short period of time - 9 months. ...

Hot and cold packs- the never ending confusion!

There always seems to be mass confusion on cold packs and hot packs and when to apply them to an injury.  I feel it is my duty as an osteopath to write about it today to avoid mass hysteria. Sometimes even practitioners seem to give the wrong advice but really ...

Back Pain

Having treated 12 patients today with 7 of them suffering just for back pain prompted me to write a little about it as it seems to be an epidemic sweeping office workers in particular. It would strongly suggest that sitting still in one position for over 8 hours ...

Arsenal Football Club, Teaching Their Physiotherapists

Arsenal Football Club contacted me to teach their physiotherapists my Foot and Ankle course. All physiotherapists and osteopaths continue training as part of their Continuous Professional Development (CPD) which is governed by the Health Professional Council (HPC) ...

Knee pain (“jumper’s knee”)

Having just treated two patients presenting with knee pain within 2 hours of each other, with almost identical onsets, prompted me to write about “jumpers knee”.  It has been called this as it typically affects athletes involved with sports which require ...

The Sunday times

I woke up early one Sunday morning to a text message from a good friend to tell me that she loves my advert in the Sunday times. I rubbed my eyes and re-read her crazy message.  I was really confused and then put it down to one of two factors: She must be losing ...