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Healthcare Insurance Update: What’s up? As of February 1, 2021, I will no longer be registered with any insurer that does not accept patient reimbursement requests or otherwise mandates electronic billing in order to provide coverage. If you wish to submit a request for reimbursement to your insurer, I’m more than happy to supply extra […]
With many of us having to work from home during lockdown, due to unfamiliar working conditions, more and more people will experience back pain. As an osteopath, I help people struggling with work-related back pain all the time. Putting up with uncomfortable working conditions can lead to more severe back problems and issues with posture […]
What Is A Calf Strain? The calf is a group of muscles that point the feet and toes and support the arches of the foot. When you walk, the calf and Achilles act as a spring, absorbing force and helping you roll over your toes. When we move forward quickly, these muscles contract allowing the […]
Sciatica can feel frightening when it first appears — maybe as a sudden, sharp pain down the leg, or a deep, nagging ache that refuses to settle. Many people end up searching for terms like sciatica treatment, back pain relief, or nerve pain and then meet a wall of confusing, conflicting advice online. In my […]
Gentle treatment for your neck pain is at hand! When you come in with neck pain into the Bracknell osteopathy clinic, you’ll find I ask a lot of questions. The main reason for this is to find out if your neck pain is what we call ‘mechanical’ neck pain or if it could be something […]
Case Study – Managing Chronic Pain with Behavioural Therapies This is Part 4 of a 4 part series on Chronic Pain Management A 64-year-old male had a 43-year history of low back pain which he attributed to working as a mechanic. Although he had seen a chiropractor, physiotherapist and taken pain medication, these only provided […]
This is part 3 of a series on Persisting Pain, a topic of interest to many of my patients in Ascot (Bracknell) and Kensington West London, where my patients with chronic pain live. Part One explores what chronic pain is, and Part two introduces the idea of non-hands work such as behavioural therapies to help […]
This is part 2 of a series. Read Part 1 on Persisting Pain. As the advances of modern medical research have progressed, so has the development of manual therapies such as osteopathy. Once seen as a profession purely dealing with rehabilitation or ‘hands-on therapy’, physiotherapy has integrated with essential areas such as behavioural and psychological […]
I see a lot of people in my Kensington and Ascot osteopathy clinics who have longstanding pain – and they obviously want to do something about it. Pain is a normal part of life. It’s adaptive and when it’s short lived, it’s providing useful information. From a traumatic knee injury to an achy back from […]
People know I am a CBTI trained sleep coach, and so in clinic one day I was asked a great sleep question ! A person struggling with sleep asked a question along the lines of: Is it better for me to go to bed early or to sleep late? The answer is NEITHER! BOTH are […]