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Can massage help shoulder pain? Massage is a well known and long established method of helping with general muscular pain and stiffness. It may make you feel good but how effective is it at helping with musculoskeletal conditions like shoulder pain? Our chiropractors and physios often recommend Sports or Deep Tissue massage as a complementary…
Your mid-back or thoracic spine stretches from the base of your neck to the top of the lumbar region (lower back). The twelve vertebrae here are more rigid and stable so rarely suffer from injury. If you’re experiencing pain in this region, there are a few likely causes that chiropractic treatment or massage can help,…
Loss Of Strength Doesn’t Have To Be Part of Ageing As we get older, everyone loses a degree of strength. In fact, we lose around 3 to 5% of muscle mass each decade from age 30. This speeds up around 40 for women and 60 for men. Age-related loss of muscle mass is normal, but…
Anyone of any age can injure themselves in a fall – it’s not just the elderly. The shock of a fall makes your muscles tense up and you can be left with bruises, strains and spasms. You might throw your arm out to save yourself and jolt your shoulder, or you might land awkwardly on…
Inflammation can show up in the body in many different ways, from achy joints to sore muscles, to ongoing conditions like arthritis, and even a general feeling of being ‘under the weather’. Luckily, there are many natural remedies you can use to fight inflammation, and they taste great as well! Read to the end for…
Taking a deep breath can trigger sharp pains in the rib, chest and back pain for a number of reasons. Our expertise at Sundial is in tracking down the causes of pain and working to find the right treatment for you. Read on to find out what might bring on chest and rib pain and…
Under-18s are not immune to back pain. About a third of children experience neck and back pain, with about a quarter of those enduring two or three episodes yearly. The school years involve carrying heavy books and equipment in backpacks, sitting at desks for hours and bending over screens – no wonder the young have…
You may have heard that we need to walk 10,000 steps a day. But where does this idea come from? The answer is a campaign from the 1960’s to advertise the Manpo-kei, otherwise known as the ‘10,000 steps meter’. This was chosen for its simplicity and as a way of marketing a product, but not…
Back pain causes can be difficult to diagnose without specialist knowledge. How do you know if it’s your discs, your muscles, your hips or sacroiliac joints? Inflammation or dysfunction of the sacroiliac (SI) joints produces symptoms that mimic many other back problems. The SI joints are in the pelvis and located where the sacrum joins…
Pain in your back tells you when something’s not right but it’s not particularly good at telling you exactly what’s wrong. So says Brighton chiropractor Matthew Bennett. You might feel a ‘referred pain’ in quite another part of the body – down your arms, your legs, just in a couple of fingers or even in…
