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Plantar Fasciitis – Causes and Treatment in Mumbles, Swansea The characteristic pain of plantar fasciitis gets you when you first get up. Put your foot down on the floor and ow – it hurts. This pain tends to ease as you get going and the tissue warms
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Hayfever Irritability (& It’s Upsides) It’s not something I treat a lot of in my clinic but it should be as I used to suffer horribly as a child and onwards into my 30’s. I used to dread the summer months. Cleaning up my diet, lifestyle, daily
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To MRI or Not to MRI… …Well that wasn’t the question if you had back pain at the end of last year. It was all but impossible to get an MRI scan of your back in Swansea .. But why? Well I’m not privy to local health
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Exercise To Fine Tune Your Brain We all know that exercise is good for the body, but how many of us are truly aware how good exercise is for our brain? And did you know that that the type of exercise that you do can benefit the
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Acupuncture For Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Carpal tunnel syndrome comprises potentially disabling sensory and/or motor symptoms in the hand. Around 1 in 10 people develop carpal tunnel syndrome at some point, and it appears to be more common in women. Women are twice as likely to suffer from
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How Does Acupuncture Work? The question I’m asked most frequently about acupuncture (after does it hurt? and no by the way) is how does it work? So here’s a little guide to how it works… Acupuncture Needles Create Micro Trauma & Inflammation When an acupuncture needle enters
Read more →Definition of Health The definitive definition of health was developed in the late 1940’s by the World Health Organisation (1948) as “Health is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease”. An alternative and somewhat more mechanistic definition of
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Acupuncture To Treat Hot Flushes Exciting new research has just emerged from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggesting that acupuncture is better than medication for hot flushes post breast cancer. Whilst hot flushes are typically associated with the menopause, patients are often
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I recently attended the annual Acupuncture Research Symposium at Kings College London. There are interesting theories emerging in both Western & Holistic medicine. Namely that an awful lot of chronic diseases have a root in inflammation. Think cancer, Irritable Bowel disease, Chronic Fatigue, fibromyalgia & dementia &
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What are mystery illnesses and how do deal with them? If you’re suffering from a mystery illness it can be worthwhile checking the following list to see if a nutritional or functional cause may be at the root of your illness: Nutrient absorption. You can put all
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