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The Benefits of Acupuncture
Openhealth is a multi-disciplinary clinic, and acupuncture is an important part of the team-led approach that we believe is the best route to patient recovery. Some patients will visit us for...
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Sports massage? Soft tissue therapy? What’s the difference?
Soft Tissue Therapy can get to bits you can’t stretch… Most people have heard of sports massage nowadays. The name is a bit of a misnomer however. Sports massage is different from other forms of...
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More About Massage… How? Why? When?
With marathon season just around the corner it is important to make sure your body is in peak condition. Although stretching and foam rolling are great ways to maintain muscle health, they can’t get to...
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Osteopathy, Holism, and Elephants
It’s time for a blog entry about osteopathy, and to be honest I’ve been nervous about it. This is because osteopathy is different from osteopath to osteopath, and some osteopaths can get quite...
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Vitamin D – Are You Deficient?
Even a brief dose of sunshine over a small part of bare flesh is beneficial in helping synthesise Vitamin D At this time of year, the sun is (usually) out. But after a long winter many of us find that...
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And breathe…
Breathing is, needless to say, rather important. We need to take air in so that the oxygen can be absorbed into our blood and delivered to our muscles, organs and brain. Once respiratory processes have...
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It’s all about the Glutes
Maybe it’s just fashion, but current trends in manual therapy and rehab point towards the glutes as the root of many problems. Whether it’s low back pain, knee issues or shoulder problems, glute...
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Some Thoughts on Rotation
One of the movements that our practitioners look at with a lot of our patients is the ability to rotate. Can you rotate when you need to? Or are you rotating too much when you shouldn’t? Pulling the...
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Nutrition – Is there a one-size-fits-all solution?
Many of the patients who come to OpenHealth, whether it’s for manual therapy, massage or nutrition, arrive confused about the condition they’re in. More than likely they’ve done a bit of research...
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7 Problems with Imaging
To many people, imaging techniques seem to be the last word in finding out what is wrong with them. In many cases, such investigations, such as X-ray, CT and MRI, can indeed identify the cause of...
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