Helping You to Help Yourself

Today, the BBC reported the news of the 500,000th heart pacemaker being fitted, and the advances in technology that have seen it go from the size of a pram wheel to smaller than a matchbox. The pacemaker is designed to resychronize heart muscle function generally after heart attacks, or if there is an arrhythmia (out [...]

A BBC report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7942479.stm details a research study that apparently found links between eating red meat and increased cancer. However it also reported that those people on a vegetarian diet, had no less risk of colo rectal cancer (previously linked with eating too much red meat).
This seems rather confusing, until you realise that, the study does not [...]

According to a BBC report, six trials involving 1800 patients showed the routine use of scans in the treatment of lower back pain showed no advantage when compared to standard care without MRI or xray scans.
This should come as no surprise as scanning only studies the anatomy (what it looks like, compared to what it [...]

A large part of my work involves working as part of an integrated team (at The Therapy Room in Cambridge) to find the right solution or solutions for a clients problem.
Each therapist I work with has their own unique skills, experience, and as such can be called upon for assistance, input and we often work as [...]

During my ten years as a health practitioner, one of the most useful tools I have to help in finding the root cause of problems, is the story that the body tells. We can observe this in each other by looking closely at how we hold our bodies. This physical manifestation of our health (posture) is [...]

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