About a year ago, I committed to writing monthly newsletters (and turning the content into a blog when relevant) to stay connected with clients and hopefully offer some value or insights into how your body functions or ways to keep yourself active and feeling better. However, for various reasons, I missed the last two months. If you've read one of these before, i doubt you have noticed their absence. Whilst I do try to make them interesting, it's not like the old days when w

This Blog post was inspired by an injury to my 14 year old son Louis. Now, thankfully he is going to be fine - but as you can see from the photo, he had a pretty nasty ankle sprain. one sore and swollen ankle As a family, we love Basketball, and like with any sport, injuries are likely to happen. This one happened trying to save a ball going out of bounds. It was game 1 of 4 in a weekend away in Griffith - so as you could imagine he was not happy. Ankle sprains are very commo

The Neck I wanted to write about the muscles of the neck this month and the common complaints that I see in the clinic. I will break down the neck into four parts 1. The upper rear neck, base of skull to C2 2. The lower rear neck C3-C7 3. The front 4. The sides The Side (lateral) Neck The main problems that you will notice are; Thoracic outlet syndrome (pain, numbness, tingling in the arm, hand and fingers) pain radiating to chest, pain to the shoulder blad