Osteoarthritis (OA) – what is the latest research. Why do you hurt? Do you know why you hurt in OA? The real answers may surprise you. I recently attended an online course on the latest research on pain science and one was on osteoarthritis, delivered by researcher Tasha Stanton. It was previously believed that OA […]
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Dr David Hawkins was a renowned psychiatrist and researcher into consciousness. He wrote several books on his research into the energy of consciousness and how we can apply it to our lives generally or more specifically for health and healing. He proposed in his book, ‘Letting Go’, that “it is the accumulated pressure of our
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In my work as a holistic integrative physiotherapist I see people with mostly chronic issues not acute. More often than not driving these conditions is an underlying unaddressed state of ‘stress’. Living in chronic stress often means the elevated cortisol and adrenaline have your muscles in a chronic tensed state and in my opinion unless
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Research has shown that there are no pain receptors in the body only receptors/nociceptors that detect unpleasant stimuli. The unpleasant impulses get sent to the brain areas for processing and it is the brain that determines if you will feel pain or if you do not. The amount of pain we feel is always real
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Why are my injuries/pain always on the right side of the body? Why are my issues always on the same side of my body? These are questions I have asked myself and have heard from patients over the years. As a wholistic fascia physiotherapist I now have better answers to these questions. Everything is connected.
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I am an integrative/ holistic physiotherapist – but what is that exactly? What do I do? The answer is not easy for me to answer, for I no longer see physical injuries as just physical injuries – at least not very often, these days. Some acute injuries are clearly purely physical but anything that is
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