PAINFUL KNEES: 5 IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS

Knee problems are common and clients often complain of achy or painful knees.  Apart from some sort of trauma, it is often a result of misalignment through standing incorrectly or muscle imbalances.  For example, a client complained that her son was unable to do any sports at school because he would be in tears with [...]

BACK PROBLEMS: FACET JOINT BREAKDOWN

A long post, I know, but there is a lot of useful information here.  Our free video this week is an excerpt taken from our Back Care Series of 3 videos to help you through each stage of back pain and help you maintain a healthy spine.
The spine is hooked together by a series of [...]

PIRIFORMIS, SCIATICA AND TREATMENT

Over the past 5 or 6 years, the piriformis is a subject that has come up on a regular basis as the culprit for problems such as sciatica.  So what is it, where is it, why is it a problem and how is it best treated?
Piriformis Muscle
It is a small, deep muscle originating at the base [...]

ANATOMY OF THE SPINE & ITS FUNCTION

The human spine is an upright bendy column made up of 7 cervical vertebrae forming the neck, 12 thoracic vertebrae forming the middle back and 5 lumbar vertebrae forming the lower back. These 24 vertebrae sit on a triangular bone called the sacrum to which your pelvis is attached at the sacro-iliac joint. The coccyx [...]