How You Can Keep Your Spine Healthy While Working at Home
Many workplaces have invested substantial amounts of time and money into setting up ergonomically correct workstations and encouraging employees to follow work practices that protect their bodies from the types of injuries that often result from repetitive motion or extendedbouts of sitting. Unfortunately, many people working from home do not have those same resources available to them and their spinal health is paying for it. These are six ways you...
Avocado Pesto Zoodles
Ingredients Walnut Meat 1 cup raw walnuts 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp oregano 1/4 tsp sea salt Avocado Pesto 2 ripe avocados 1 cut fresh basil leaves 3 cloves garlic, peels 1/4 cup pine nuts 1 tbsp lemon juice 1/2 tsp sea salt 3 tbsp olive oil Zoodles 3 large zucchini, spiralled 1 tbsp olive oil 1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes, sliced Instructions To make Walnut Meat, combine the walnuts, olive oil, oregano, an sea salt in a food processor. Process until desired consistency and set aside. To make...
Manage your hay-fever with this easy solution
It’s that time of the year again. Aaaaccchhhooo! It’s the sneezing epidemic, the dreadful allergy that is hay-fever. The winter just gone wasn’t particularly harsh but the spring didn’t really materialize and suddenly summer surprises us with consistent sunshine and humid air. For most of us, the sun is a pleasant mood-booster but it’s also a miserable spell for pollen-allergic hay-fever sufferers. With that, some of us are paying the price -...
Driving without pain
Increasingly more patients complain of back pain caused by car journeys. Many people experience neck or low back stiffness after driving. This can cause aches and pains that you may find hard to budge in the future. Across the UK, drivers spent 30 hours on average in delays each year. Modern life involves spending so much time in cars, it is imperative that car seats support our spine. Unfortunately, as our...
Is you child’s backpack causing them pain?
Ah, school. New sets of flashy highlighters, packs of biros in every pencil case and a backpack to haul it all. Your child’s eyes might ignite when they see a colourful superhero backpack or they may even beg for one with so many compartments it could hold enough food for a year. But, although a superhero backpack sounds admirable, parents should be focused primarily on strong, sturdy bags that don’t...
Breathing Difficulties and your Diet
Do you have respiratory symptoms? Wheezing, coughing, breathing difficulties, sinus congestion, asthma, allergies? These symptoms are signs of inflammation – which in and of itself is not a bad thing because we need to inflame in order to heal. However, our symptoms should not be chronic – meaning they should not be persistent or continually reoccurring. Symptoms are what our body uses to communicate with us. They are our body’s warming...
Did You Know? – Interesting facts about headaches
Did you know that 9 out of 10 Australians suffer from headaches. Over 78% of adults experience tension-type headaches, and 30% of the general population experience chronic migraines! At any given time 3.5 million Australians suffer from chronic neck and shoulder pain causing headaches. Headache is the most common reason people take over the counter drugs. 3 million Australians can be expected to suffer from migraine, about 2.25 million...
ACORN Research
What is ACORN? ACORN stands for Australian Chiropractic Research Network. This network is dedicated to growing the evidence base and research network of Chiropractors in Australia. What is ACORN research and why is it so important to Chiropractors, and the CAM industry? ACORN research is aiming to put Chiropractors and researches in touch with one another so that they can develop properly approved and programed research and studies into the short, mid, and...
Why do I need to drink water after a massage?
Having a massage has a similar effect on our body akin to light to moderate exercise. And just like after exercise, you can become dehydrated after a massage. Dehydration can cause you to feel light headed, dizzy, nauseated, and even cause a headache. Drinking water will re-hydrate you and help reduce these symptoms. Not everyone will feel these symptoms, in fact most don’t, but many people do feel thirsty or...
How breathing difficulties affects your muscles
Have you ever noticed that after a having a cold where coughing is present, or an attack of hayfever or asthma, that your neck feels tight and stiff, or you chest and shoulders feel restricted? This is caused by certain muscles constricting and tightening as we are forcing air in and out of our lungs. This can result in headaches, muscle pain or burning, even some restricted movement. Breathing difficulties can...