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It’s Not What You Do, It’s the Way That You Do It

Have you tried every treatment for your chronic pain and nothing has worked?
Admit it, you hoped that you could pay someone to fix you and all the years of pain would melt away after an hour’s treatment.
Change doesn’t happen overnight - we need to get down to the coal face and make those shifts, show up for ourselves and commit to doing the work to see the results.

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Sole Rebel : The Problem With Orthotics

‘Should I get rid of my insoles?’ is a common question I get asked and, to save you the trouble of reading this, my answer is, ‘it depends’. Not very helpful, I know, I prefer to encourage clients think critically and make their own informed decisions. In a culture where we’ve been brought up to defer to authority it can be hard to form our own opinions and stick to them.

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We may be able to regrow our cartilage

An interesting study was published this month which has shed light on the process of joint tissue repair and regeneration in humans which mirrors the ability of zebrafish and salamander to regrow limbs. Our current understanding is that human cartilage cannot regenerate itself, or at least, only to a very limited degree and is why repetitive joint injuries often lead to the breakdown of cartilage and eventually, osteoarthritis.

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Outdoor Classrooms - Time For A Comeback?

In 1907 London County Council built the first open air school in the UK and by 1937 there were 96 open air day schools in operation throughout Britain, with 53 of them being residential. Children were taught in classrooms that were designed to be fully or partially exposed to the outdoors and even slept outside exposed to the elements.

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