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Stress and back pain

Everything below the neck is controlled by everything above the neck, meaning that your entire body is controlled by your brain, or more specifically your central nervous system (your Brain and spinal cord). If stress is a factor in your life, that cerebral tension will have an effect on your body and may manifest in varying symptoms of varying degrees depending on the individual. If you suffer from back pain, you may ...
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What causes TENNIS ELBOW

With the Australian open well under way a common household label for a sore elbow has always been ‘tennis elbow’. In fancy pants terms its known as ‘lateral epicondylitis’, where the tendon of the forearm extensors gets inflamed at its attachment which is the epicondyle. This condition generally occurred with tennis because in the old days, wooden racquets caused the shock and vibration of the ball against strings to flow ...
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Myotherapy for new mums

New born Babies effect on you, now its on the outside! Baby born, hip hip, wet the head, balloons, flowers, visitors, gifts. Little clothes, tiny everything, in your arms looking down for the next 12 months. Hunching over, safe and secure, Breast feeding or holding the baby and the bottle, all really really bad for your posture. Rounded shoulders, sitting and nursing constantly, into the cot, out of the cot, settling baby, ...
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Pregnancy and Myotherapy

OK, YOUR PREGNANT, ONE IN THE OVEN, UP THE DUFF, attention now I have, now seriously………Congratulations!!!!! Pregnancy is a great wonderful miraculous thing, 2 cells uniting as you and your partner do at a particular special moment( if you do it the old fashion way) multiplying frantically to create life, muscles, tendons, ligaments, bone, all sorts of tissue growth, and with it a new soul is born, miraculous stuff. Besides creating ...
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Back Pain

Back Pain, there you go, i said it, and most at some stage or another have experienced it. Varying in degrees of pain, frequent or constant, sharp or dull, any way you slice or dice it back pain will gnaw away at you slowly or leave you completely incapacitated. A course of anti-inflames, voltaren, took this, saw him, yoga, Pilates, gym, ‘Swimming’, that will fix it, nup, still can’t get it ...
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