The hamstring muscle is one of the most common fast running sports injury. Do you know that feeling when you’re sprinting for the end and next thing you feel that “ping or snapping feeling” in the back your thigh? That is probably a pulled hamstring muscle. The way the hamstring muscle is normally injured is… Continue Reading
Biofreeze is a rub on pain relief gel that many people and chiropractors use in the UK on sore areas of the body. I remember coming across Biofreeze gel on a Chiropractic conference in the US in the early 2000′s for the first time. I know how people looking for back pain relief will tend to… Continue Reading
Ever wondered if stretching before exercise is really necessary to prevent an injury. Well today we’ll look a bit more into this eternal question on health and how to try prevent injuring yourself especially in sports. I think you’ll be surprised…. Continue Reading
Quite often a patient would come into the chiropractic clinic and tell me they have a back pain with a pain between their shoulder blades. The patient will then want to show me where their pain is by touching my back. This is because they cannot reach the painful area on their own backs. This patient… Continue Reading
There have been many times I have seen patients come in with back pain and the first thing they’d tell me is they have pulled a muscle in their back. Is back pain always just a simple case of a muscle strain? Did a simple action like getting out of bed or bending over really have the ability to… Continue Reading