Everyone knows that osteopaths are experts in treating back pain but fewer realise that we can treat headaches too. Especially those that arise from stiffness or muscular tightness around the neck or shoulders.

These so-called tension headaches are extremely common and often respond really well to osteopathic treatment.

We begin with a detailed medical history and a discussion of your current pain and discomfort. This is followed by a thorough examination to identify the causes of your particular headache. From there we’ll use a variety of effective, safe techniques to improve movement, reduce muscle tension and ultimately reduce your pain.

We’ll also give you plenty of advice about how to keep the pain at bay, such as stretches and exercises to do at home, changes to your workstation or car seat setup and even how to choose the right pillow!

If you’re suffering with headaches and would like to talk to one of our team, give us a call on 0115 981 5134 or email us on info@mooreosteopathy.co.uk.

We’re really excited to announce that we can now offer Nutritional Therapy & Advice at the clinic with Roger Smith, BSc (Hons). He’s now available on Thursdays, offering one hour one-to-one consultations for a number of health issues.

Roger Smith is a food chemist providing a unique service that allows you to understand your current deficiencies and excesses of essential nutrients. From here he is able to guide you in finding your ideal foods and drinks for better gut health and eliminating allergies.

He has helped clients recover from diabetes, chronic fatigue, low thyroid, high ‘bad cholesterol’ and dangerously high triglycerides, depression, bipolar disorder and of course IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).

If you think that Roger could help you, or would like to find out more about his service, why not drop him an email on rogersmith@mooreosteopathy.co.uk.

We’re very excited to announce that Mark from HipTrac UK is going to be doing an Open Day at our clinic on Saturday 31st October to demonstrate his revolutionary hip traction machine.

Designed to help people suffering from osteoarthritis of the hip who are unable, unwilling or unsuitable for surgery, it provides gentle traction to the hip joint to increase joint space, reduce muscle tension and improve mobility of the joint.

Interested?

Mark will be here from 10am to 3pm on the day offering hip assessments and free demonstrations of the device for anyone who drops in. Alternatively you can give him a call on 0115 882 0733 to book a slot.

Joining our team from Tuesday 15th September is Sara Collingwood, who expands our sports massage team.

Sara is a qualified in sports, Swedish and aromatherapy massage and is particularly passionate about how soft tissue massage can help improve mobility and general wellbeing.

“I believe that a number of conditions can be successfully treated with manual therapy which supports a reduction in tension, discomfort and pain. There is no better feeling for me than helping someone to feel better and have an improved quality of life because of treatment that I have provided.”

Sara is also a third student of Osteopathy so brings that knowledge and experience to her massage treatments.

To book in with Sara, give us a call on 0115 981 5134 or check her online diary.

As some of you probably know, I’ve agreed to do a public speaking event in a few weeks time and am knee-deep in all the research and preparation at the moment. Of course, I’m a little (!) nervous but apart from the usual fears of embarrassment and making mistakes etc, my biggest fear is not being able to put across the really important message that I want to convey, in an engaging way.

I’m talking at the Public Health and Primary Care Event at the NEC on the 21st May about the work that we do at the clinic with unsettled babies  to a group of GPs, midwives, consultants etc. They estimate about 800 in the audience!

It’s a subject that I know well and that I’m passionate about but how do I convey that? Part of my research has been watching a variety of TED talks, which I love. They show the best public speakers at the top of their game, talking about subjects that are diverse and often abstract, but always extremely interesting.

I found this one the other week and I think it’s my favourite so far – absolutely brilliant. Ken Robinson talks about creativity in schools – you won’t regret taking 20 mins to watch this 🙂

After the event I’ll be sharing my talk and my research, so watch this space. If I can be 10% as interesting as the above video, I’ll be a happy man 🙂

Richard

Monday 22nd December
10am to 7pm – osteopathy

Tuesday 23rd December
9am to 7pm – osteopathy & sports massage

Wednesday 24th – Sunday 28th December
CLOSED

Monday 29th December
Osteopathy appointments by request – please call to book

Tuesday 30th – Thursday 1st January
CLOSED

Friday 2nd January
9am to 7pm – osteopathy & sports massage

Saturday 3rd January
9am to 2pm – osteopathy & sports massage

Monday 5th January onwards
Business as usual 🙂

We’re really happy to announce that we have a new team member, Terry Emery who’ll be offering remedial and sports massage treatments on Saturdays.

Terry is a graduate from the Midlands School of Massage, which is where Richard began his therapy career many moons ago.

Terry has a particular interest in using hands-on treatment to help improve performance and reduce the risk of injuries, based on his own experiences in the past:

“I trained many times a week in various sports throughout my life and was injury free until I hit my forties and then things started to get harder and far more painful.  Training wasn’t fun anymore.

After I had many successful treatments from an osteopath and a remedial therapist I was able to kick the pain relief, prevent further injury and my performance and range of movement got so much better. I wanted to help others to do the same.”

You can view Terry’s profile here or book in for a Sunday appointment using our online system.

So Saturday 28th June 2014 will go down as the day that I tried my first Obstacle Course Race courtesy of The Suffering Race at Rockingham Castle… and it was great! Not sure that ‘enjoy’ is the right word but really glad that I entered and turned up on the day 😉

I came away tired, sore, muddy and thoroughly drained but such a sense of achievement!

Billed as a 5k course, it actually measured somewhere around 8 or 9k and featured obstacles ranging from jumping over piles of tyres to wading through dirty, smelly ponds and streams to clambering under cargo nets and climbing over high walls. Not to mention sliding down a huge water slide into hay bales and, at the very end, charging through a wall of rugby players with crash pads doing their best to slow you down. All good fun!

Probably the hardest part of the course was climbing up a very steep slope on hands and knees and then sliding down to the bottom… and repeat.. and repeat! In fact I think it was 5 times in total but my brain gave up counting after a few! And to top it off, after the last set was a longer climb up and down carrying a tyre over each arm – lovely!

But you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs and alongside my medal I came away with an extremely swollen, sore ankle following not one but two slips that saw my ankle turn underneath me accompanied by a large crack! Thankfully not broken but a sprain that’ll slow me down for a few weeks. Oh yeah and I’m deaf in my right ear now too from hitting the hay bales headfirst at high speed!

Pardon? What was that? Never mind… See you next year 😉

World Cup? Glastonbury? Froch-Groves 2? Nope, there’s another big event this summer…

As you might know, we’re sponsors of Ruddington Grange Golf Club and as part of that we get to have our very own “Corporate Golf Day”! We’re opening it up to all current and past patients so if you want to come along, you’re more than welcome 🙂

Here’s the info:

Date: Friday 11th July 2014
Time: 10am onwards
Location: Ruddington Grange Golf Club, Wilford Road NG11 6NB

What you get:

• completely FREE round of golf (18 holes)
• chance to win spot prizes
• an excuse for a morning off work 🙂

Numbers are limited (but we’ve got plenty of space) so if you do fancy it, just send us an email and I’ll put your name down. Once I have numbers I’ll be back in touch to confirm tee times etc. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a pro, it’ll be a casual, fun day and we’ll group people together by ability so we all have a good time!

When looking at ways to “get healthy” people often look at the more complex, difficult options focussing on extremes of diet and/or exercise. But one of the easiest ways to improve your skin, gut, memory and energy is to drink enough water. Have a look at this fabulous infographic that Sarah recently came across… and have a glass of water 😉

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