Over ten thousand people visit their osteopath each week because of problems caused by poor office seating, according to a recent survey carried out by Britain’s osteopaths. The osteopaths reported that unsuitable office seating, and poor sitting posture are the cause of 50% of all the problems they see among patients who have primarily sedentary jobs. The recent...Read More

Helping to avoid back pain in young people Over the last few years we have found an increasing number of school children, teenagers and university students coming for treatment complaining of back and neck pain. One of the major factors in the development of these problems seems to be carrying bags of books and equipment that are just...Read More

Over the last few weeks we have seen an increasing number of patients attend the clinic suffering from acute back pain as a result of gardening or lawn mowing. Looking through the old clinic files we found an article written by the founder of the clinic Simon Fielding that was published in the local paper...Read More

The headlines this month “Paracetamol is ineffective at treating back pain and osteoarthritis despite being a recommended treatment, a group of Australian researchers has warned” will come as no surprise to the hundreds of our patients who have tried the drug and found it provided little relief for their back pain. The research published in...Read More