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…
Summer is here, which means hiking season! Hiking is great for your body and mind. Cardio exercise while immersing yourself in nature is an ideal combination for pain management, improving mental health and building your general fitness. Over time, hiking strengthens the muscles that support your spine and maintains flexibility and posture, as well as…
If you suffer from back pain, air travel can be daunting. Cramped airline seats and heavy luggage as well as a general change in routine can sometimes cause existing back problems to flare up. But travelling doesn’t have to be hard on your back. Avoiding back pain during and after air travel is all about…
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…
Do you get a sharp pain in your heel, arch and foot when you get out of bed? This can be caused by problems with your plantar fascia. That’s the tight band of connective tissue that runs forward from the heel of your foot and fans out into five bands to the base of your…
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…
Regular exercise is a great way to maintain spinal health, but sometimes overexertion can do more harm than good. At our chiropractic and physio clinic in Brighton, we often see people who have sustained a back injury from improper technique at the gym. Most commonly, this comes from bad ‘form’ in weight-lifting, as this kind…
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…
For many people, chiropractic treatment makes their pain improve almost immediately. But this isn’t guaranteed to be the case. There’s nothing more frustrating than taking the first steps towards improving your back pain, and then finding you feel worse after your first treatment. This is an understandable cause of concern, but we’re here to assure…
