Lower Back Exercises To Do At Home
If you’re suffering from lower back pain, doing exercise might be the last thing you want to do. However, the truth is, our bodies work best when the muscles and joints are working together and moving frequently. You see, when our muscles and joints don’t move they can become weakened and this can lead to […]
What Is Tennis Elbow?
What Causes Tennis Elbow? Tennis elbow is a common injury particularly amongst sports athletes including tennis, badminton, squash, table tennis, which involves using a racquet. However it’s not limited to just athletes and racquet sports. It can be from overuse such as manual labour using a screwdriver or repetitive injuries around the house where the […]
How To Stay Active & Avoid Injuries-Crossfit
What Is Crossfit & Why Do Chiropractors Get Involved? We just celebrated the 2021 CrossFit Open a few’weeks ago, on this occasion we give you a quick review regarding the practice of CrossFit and injuries. How you can manage them with chiropractic, in terms of prevention and treatment. The definition of fitness Greg Glassman came […]
How To Strengthen Your Low Back
The Top 3 Things To Help Low Back Pain How To Strengthen Your Low Back It’s all very well getting out of pain, getting – back to doing what you love- long walks with the dogs, light jogging, chucking the kids around and being pain free at work. But there is a nagging doubt in […]
Plantar Fasciitis? How to treat that annoying pain at the bottom of the heel after you go for a run.
It’s Mike here one of the sports massage therapists at West Chiropractic. This blog will shed some light on that annoying pain at the bottom of the heel after you go for a run. I am going to explain what is causing it and how we are treating plantar fasciitis in our clinic. By definition, […]
As The Old Proverb Says, No Pain No Gain!
Why does it get worse before it gets better?? So often is the case with human physiology. For example, when going to the gym, to get fit, to lose weight and to improve your cardiovascular health it isn’t always easy. Not to mention the fact that it takes time out of your day, it’s tiring, […]
When You Can’t Be Bothered To Make The Next Step
William McRaven, US Navy Admiral “If you want to change the world start off by making your bed.” If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. That will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another […]
Ice, Ice, Baby……Why We Use Ice On Injuries.
Why do we use ice? The greatest effects of ice therapy have been proven using an intermittent short routine within the acute phase of injury (first 48-72 hours following injury). This protocol is proven to be more effective than one 20-minute application in lowering tissue temperature and pain management. The effects of ice therapy are […]
How To Get Motivated
“The impediment to action advances action, what stands in the way becomes the way”? Marcus Aurelius. Eric Thomas said that he didn’t believe in procrastination and made an analogy. If someone’s ready to give you 1 million pounds tomorrow at 5 AM, you’ll probably be there at 4:30 AM? There’s no such thing as procrastination, […]
‘I’ve Got A High Pain Tolerance’
‘I’ve Got A High Pain Tolerance’ by Mike Ludwicki Pain is always horrible experience; our natural reaction is to move away from pain or at least try to reduce it. Everyone at some point has struggled with pain in varying degrees such as stubbing our pinky toe or suffering from something more sinister like sciatica. […]