Extremely useful and easy gentle neck mobility exercises to help restore normal neck movement following common complaints like ‘sleeping wrong’ (facet sprains). These exercises are easily performed while sitting at your work desk or even on your couch. Perform approximately 20 reps in each direction shown (or more if you feel it is helping) will assist inContinue Reading »
I had a patient come in during the week and present with a sharp pain within the neck itself.The onset was that she woke up with it and ‘slept awkwardly’. While unfavourable positioning of the neck during sleep may be a common trigger for general neck pain, this may not always be the primary cause.In herContinue Reading »
Do You Spend a Lot of Time at The Computer?How about the tight shoulders, traps and headaches that come with it? Let’s fix it. I had a patient this week with pain running through the trapezius muscle – which goes from the shoulder up into the neck. She spends a lot of time at the computer withContinue Reading »
A lot of our patients come in with asking how they can train themselves to have better posture. Here’s an easy exercise using a thera-band that you can do a few times a day in order to help open up your shoulders. Talk to a Osteopath on the PhoneClick Here »
Here’s a Pectoral Minor Stretch that will instantly improve your posture. Building on last week’s desk posture exercise, this pec-minor stretch will further enhance your posture, by helping open your upper-thoracic spine. By maintaining your pec-minor, not only will this help posture – but will also help prevent shoulder injury. Enquire About Cost and AvailabilityClick HereContinue Reading »
23 Days a Year is Spent Looking at Our Phones “Looking down at our phone can add anywhere between 8-23kg to the existing average head weight of 5.5kg.”Kenneth Hansraj Chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitative Medicine Phones Don’t Have to be a Pain in The Neck1View all screens at eye-level. RaiseContinue Reading »
