Useful Information

Chiropractor Ben Searle-Baker, highlights the many benefits of walking; from reducing the risk of heart disease to helping you get a good night’s sleep! Here’s how you can reach that all important 10,000 steps a day.

Deep tissue massage is a type of massage used to relieve muscle tension or limited movement of joints. This type of massage concentrates on realigning deeper layers of muscle and tissue, where the massage strokes help break down pockets of tense tissue that are causing pain. The concentrated pressure on these specific areas releases the tension, allowing for better blood flow and joint movement.

Mums and dads are incredibly susceptible to back pain. Chiropractor Max Hirchmann gives us the lowdown on caring for your back during your little one’s first few years.

During pregnancy and birth, our bodies are under more strain and stress that at most other times in life. Although we are more than capable to deal with everything that is thrown at us, we can help to minimise aches and pains by seeing a chiropractor during pregnancy.

Just booked your first ever consultation with a chiropractor? Not sure what to expect? Joanna Lowry-Corry describes the most common chiropractic techniques.

‘Trapped Nerve’ is a bit of a catch-all phrase for a range of issues which lead to nerve pain; tingling, numbness or a general feeling of weakness. But what is really happening to cause this pain? What does the phrase ‘trapped nerve’ really mean?

Just last year, the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) reported an increase in sufferers of back pain. Lifestyle is to blame, but perhaps not in the ways you might think.

The way you sleep could be causing you unnecessary aches and pains. We are told time again that we should be sleeping flat on our backs, but many of us develop incorrect habitual sleeping patterns, which are hard to change.

If you need a back pain clinic, London Wellness Centre’s two London-based clinics are open at weekends, helping to ease the pain of a busy lifestyle. Conveniently located in Canary Wharf and London Bridge, we also have late-night appointments available for shift workers, office workers, busy mums and dads, or anyone feeling the strain of their sedentary day or for professionals such as teachers who can’t get out during the working day.

As humans, we are built to be active, despite our levels of activity reducing continually as we’ve evolved. Movement is still the right thing for us though, with long periods of being sedentary or seated proven to have major physical effects on our bodies.

Sit down and make yourself uncomfortable… it doesn’t have quite the same ring as ‘sit down and make yourself comfortable’ does it? And there’s the rub. Sitting down is actually doing us harm.

Ruggers Is Rough: Chiropractor Ben Searle-Baker highlights how to avoid injury, whilst continuing to play one of the nation’s favourite sports games.

New Consultant-Led Women’s Health Service Opens at our Canary Wharf Clinic led by Mr Christopher C. T. Lee (MBBS, BSc, MRCOG). With the launch of a private Gynaecology service this month, we’re taking the lead in Women’s Health and disease prevention in London.

Chiropractic treatment is a non-surgical treatment which alleviates lower back pain and helps the spine to better mobility.

Many people will link smoking to the symptoms of coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath, but for those smokers who complain of discomfort or pain in the lower back, there may well be a correlation between their aches and lighting up a cigarette.

If you’re wondering whether to choose a chiropractor, osteopath or a physiotherapist for your back pain, you might be surprised to learn the results can be very different. The difference between an osteopath and chiropractor might seem minimal but, look deeper into the methods they use and you’ll find out who is likely to be more effective in treating your pain.