Physiotherapy Is Strategically Placed To Help With Long-COVID Pain Relief
Increasingly, COVID sufferers are experiencing long term pain and debilitation and these consequences are being termed as ‘Long-COVID’ Physiotherapy has been identified as having critical importance in helping treat the upcoming surge of ‘Long- COVID’ pain sufferers. Relief from that pain needs a combination of talking and listening (psychotherapy) to calm the system down, along…
Read MoreChoose The Right Exercise For You And Get The Proven Benefits
Exercise. Even the mention of the word usually causes a groan. We all have our reasons, or excuses, for not exercising, but mainly it’s because we can easily imagine the short term pain, but not so easily visualise the long term benefits. We won’t even try to make it sound like dedicated and consistent exercise…
Read MoreBe Smart. Halve Your Risk
This advice that has been repeated to us since early in the pandemic: Wear a mask Maintain social distance Wash your hands regularly Although this advice smacks of common sense, it is still flagrantly ignored by some. On an almost daily basis, we get patients who complain about having to wear a mask for a…
Read MoreAsk The Right Question
Many of us are frustrated and confused by the arguments and counter arguments we constantly hear about just about anything. How can expert A argue the complete opposite of expert B? Well it depends in part if they were asked the same question. So let’s start with something that probably most of us know about…
Read MoreIn Sickness And In Health
It’s very important that we understand the implications of the words we use, as they can have a powerful control of our beliefs and the actions we take. Let’s take the word ‘Health’, a very common word and one with which we in the UK associate very strong beliefs. Many years ago, it was decided…
Read MoreShamanic Healing And Reiki
In ancient times they didn’t have the medical knowledge of the body or the medicine and technology that we take for granted now. But they still had to deal with the sickness, trauma, pain, stress and all the other symptoms of life that we experience today. This forced the ancient doctors to use their observational…
Read MoreAvailability Of Treatment Has Never Been More Important
With the daily media bombardment about COVID, it is no wonder that fear is generally growing. Fear of the social impact of another lockdown, fear of the uncertainty of our livelihoods and even fear of our very existence. Staffordshire has announced that it will go to Tier 2 at midnight on Friday and this will…
Read MoreWhat We are Doing About COVID-19 At Nicky Snazell Clinic
COVID-19 has had a dramatic affect on all our lives and not surprisingly at Nicky Snazell Clinic as well. Our foremost concern is the safety of patients and staff and we strive to stay fully up to date with the almost daily changes and wherever possible keep ahead of the curve. More on that later.…
Read MoreMajor National Shift of Opinion On Treating Chronic Pain
Some of you may remember the time when there was a national outcry about the so-called ‘post code lottery’ with the treatment on offer from the NHS varying dependent on where you lived. Subsequently a new organisation, NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) was setup to take responsibility for authorising which treatments should…
Read MoreCORONAVIRUS LATEST UPDATE – 4th June
Due to changes announced by the Government on 3rd June, we will now be able to offer treatment by David, Dean or myself from 1st July. There are changes to be COVID19 compliant so please read this. But you no longer need to be in pain. CALL NOW! I am pleased to let you know…
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