We're getting towards the end of the year and soon the gyms and streets will be awash with people keen to get fit. This is the year they are going to do it, they tell themselves, and there will be plenty of huffing and puffing going on out there come 2020....
Kevin Hunt
How to sit properly at your desk
Sixty Seven percent of people in Briton spend 20 hours a day either sitting down or lying down and 54% of those think they have an active lifestyle. We are getting more and more sedentary but believe we are active because we have busy lives, constantly checking our...
What tomatoes teach us about pain
Pain is clever. It learns. It is designed to protect us and is constantly analysing data to do so. Sometimes however it can do too good a job at protecting us and gives us unhelpful signals. So how does this happen and what do tomatoes have to do with it? As a child...
Sleep – The most important part of the day
On these hot muggy nights it can be difficult to get a good nights sleep. Sleep should account for about a third of our lives but many of us struggle to get a good nights rest. We've all heard the stories of certain people like Margaret Thatcher surviving on 4 hours...
10 super spine exercises
10 relatively simple exercises to keep your spine limber and strong. 1. Knee rolling Lying on your back and rolling your knees from side to side for 30-60 seconds helps oil up the hinges of the spine and keep you mobile. It should feel like a nice rhythmical...
Aches and pains that just won’t go away?
The clocks have gone back, spring has finally arrived and there should be at least another hours daylight for us to enjoy and longer summer evenings to come and this weekend promises to be an atypical sunny bank holiday. We all love a bit of sunshine and it generally...
A thing or two about back pain
10,000 cases and counting I noticed just before new year that a new patient I was assessing was the ten thousandth case since the clinic moved to a computerised notes system in 2010. I looked back to case 1 and low and behold case 10,000 and case number 1 were both...
50:40:10 principle
The three facts of life that govern your health. Every day I get asked by a patient if their injury was as a result of something they did or was it a build up of problems. No matter what illness or injury you're dealing with there are 3 things that determine...
Sports Massage Special Offer
Sports Massage 3 for 2! For a limited time only we are offering 3 for the price of 2 on Sports Massage at Spinal Physio with our Sports Massage Therapist Sam Hills. Sam is a Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapist with a BSc (Hons) in Sports and Exercise Science. He...
Testimonials
Here are some of the things patients have had to say about our clinic and are happy for us to share with you.