30-40% of UK adults have low levels of vitamin D in their body between January and March.1 It is difficult to get sufficient amounts of vitamin D from food alone. In the UK, our skin does not produce enough vitamin D from the sun...
Diabetes specialist dietitian, Karen Jones explains her approach to treating type 2 diabetes. As a dietitian working with people with type 2 diabetes over the last 10 years, I have seen the difference people can make to their condition by improving diet and increasing exercise. A...
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How can Women’s Health Physiotherapy help my pelvic floor? The pelvic floor is made up of a group of muscles that support the pelvic organs and form the birth canal and passages for urine and stool. The pelvic floor muscles are often described as a hammock, lifting...
How can Women’s Health Physiotherapy help during and after pregnancy? Pelvic girdle pain and stress urinary incontinence are common amongst pregnant women. These symptoms often occur due to hormonal changes and the ever increasing weight of your baby and uterus. They can also occur due to...
Halo's Nicki Bradshaw recently attended the Management and Wellbeing Conference 2017, after being invited to attend with her patient Marie. The conference focused on Hypermobility disorders and more specifically Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS). Nicki and Marie heard several specialist speakers who disseminated the very latest research on...
Running footwear is a multi billion pound industry and the choices available to the runner are mesmerising. The science behind the marketing campaigns can be hard to find but there are some features inherent to running footwear that need consideration when making your purchase of your...
Did you know Physiotherapists can successfully treat BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo)? BPPV is a condition arising from a problem in the inner ear, and is the most common cause of vertigo. Symptoms include brief but repeated periods of vertigo, which are provoked by moving the head...
Spring is here and it's that time of year when the sun starts to shine and the plants (and the weeds!) start to grow! It's also the time of year when we see lots of patients who have injured themselves whilst being enthusiastic and spending excessive...
Many people consider sports and remedial massage to only be of benefit to athletes. Whilst it does have many uses for helping with sporting performance, sports massage has also been proven as an excellent aid to health and wellbeing, and a useful tool within the...
