When you are in pain, it dominates your thoughts. All you want to do is get out pain and fast. The problem is that pain is a complex issue and there are usually no simple solutions There are many factors which could affect the level of pain you feel and some of these factors may…

For those of you who have had a serious pain problem and needed an MRI to help diagnose the problem, you will know that getting an MRI through the NHS can be somewhere between difficult and impossible. Even when approved, it can then take weeks to get the scan and then weeks to get the…

  Radial Shockwave seems to be the in thing at the moment, with increasing numbers of clients calling to ask if it might help their condition. For those of you who have not heard of radial shockwave, here is a brief summary. The technology is far from new, having been developed, it is reported, from…

The great news is that the UK is now beginning to exit the COVID pandemic and life is beginning to return to normal. Understandably though, we still need to be cautious, and the authorities rightly require us to make sure we minimise risk for you and our staff. This means that if you have not…

Last August we sent out a blog to let you know about a significant shift in policy by NICE, the organisation that approves treatments for the NHS, in which they stated: “commonly used drugs for chronic primary pain have little or no evidence that they work and should not be prescribed. Instead, it recommended that…

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Carol Bancroft, our holistic therapist who was well thought of by the team and many of our clients. Carol worked at our clinic focussed on gentle to deep tissue massage and reflexology. She was part of the team up to lockdown on March 2020,…

One of the best ways for you to find out who you can trust when you are searching for a new supplier or contractor, is to look at their Google reviews. Personal recommendation is tremendously valuable and could mean you saving a lot of time and money, but most of us don’t necessarily have someone…

The majority of patients who come to my clinic and even those who I have personally treated, are totally confused about what GunnIMS is and also how it differs from acupuncture. The general assumption is that GunnIMS uses needles, so it must be acupuncture, right? Wrong! What is the Difference Between Acupuncture and GunnIMS? Acupuncture…

Very few people are completely symmetrical and this can have an effect on the way they stand and move. They may also have additional problems including particularly high or low arches in the feet, different leg lengths or an injury. In some cases, people adapt to abnormalities without any problems; however, for others, the joints,…

It’s best to explain this with the help of an analogy. When you buy a brand-new car, it comes with a warranty. There’s a reason for this. The manufacturer is basically guaranteeing that provided you look after your car as specified, you are going to be very unlucky if anything goes wrong under the warranty…