Relieving Pain with Hypnotherapy

Monday, 19 April 2010

Most of us have suffered some form of physical pain during our lives. Pain can have a significant impact on our daily routine and can affect our performance. Sometimes it may become so bothersome that it wrecks our whole day.

Increasingly people depend on pain medications when pain becomes too bothersome and impacts on their daily lives. But depending on a tablets isn’t as healthy as you think. You can find that your body becomes dependent on a certain dose of a pain medication and, when something more severe occurs, one tablet is not enough.

Learning the Difference between Acupuncture & Acupressure

Monday, 29 March 2010

Many therapists offer treatments to help or aid a person’s health that are completely based on natural methods instead of being based on medications. We want to talk about two of these today: acupuncture and acupressure.

Both acupuncture and acupressure are holistic approaches to health. They are both based on interacting with meridians which carry energy (or Qi) throughout the body. Chinese tradition states that ailments are caused by a blockage of a person’s Qi. Acupuncture or acupressure is used to remove the blockage thus allowing the Qi to flow freely throughout the body again.

New: Yoga at Sundial

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

We are pleased to announce our first yoga course at Sundial Clinics, St James’s Street. Our instructor, Yvette Knapman, has been carefully selected for her expertise in using yoga to help people with a history of back or neck problems.

The 1 hour 15 minute classes will have a maximum of 5 people to allow for one to one instruction, and cost £10 each class, payable in advance.

For more information go to Our Treatments / Yoga page

Emotional difficulties risk for adult obesity

Friday, 11 September 2009

A new study by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, shows that children with emotional difficulties are at higher risk for obesity in adult life.

Previous research has shown that low self-esteem and emotional problems are found in people who are overweight or obese – but not which influences which.

The team studied data from around 6,500 members of the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study who, as 10 year-olds, had been assessed for emotional problems, self-perceptions and Body Mass Index (BMI), and who reported on their BMI again at age 30. The researchers found that children with a lower self-esteem, those who felt less in control of their lives and those who worried often were more likely to gain weight over the next 20 years. They also found that girls were slightly more affected by these factors than boys.

Acupuncture & Chiropractic recommended on the NHS

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

NICE, an advisory body to the NHS, are actively recommending alternative therapies for the treatment of ongoing back pain:

Patients whose back pain has continued for more than six weeks but less than a year should be offered a choice of 12-weeks of complementary therapy on the NHS, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has concluded.

Patients should be able to choose between eight exercise classes over 12 weeks in a class or individually, nine sessions of manipulation which could be performed by a chiropractor, osteopath, or specially trained physiotherapists and doctors, or ten sessions of acupuncture over 12 weeks.

Richard talks to Daily Mail

Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Our very own Dr Richard Hollis, talks to the Daily Mail about chairs and gadgets to protect your back. He says ‘Contrary to popular belief, most back injuries happen due to inactivity, rather than excessive activity.’The discs between each vertebra in your back have no blood supply of their own, but rely on movement to maintain their health, he explains

‘Each minute movement of the body allows them to suck in fluid and secrete waste products. If you don’t move, then the discs can become compressed, triggering damage and back pain.

‘If your back, neck or shoulders ache after sitting too long in one position, this is due to a build-up of lactic acid,’ he adds. Lactic acid is a waste product released into the muscles, which can cause them to ache.