Chronic Pain Management
This article aims to highlight the complexity of chronic pain, and how a broader view of such pain can help open up avenues in relation to self-managing it.
FIT4 issue 4 – Health, fitness & wellbeing news for the Lloyd’s Community
Welcome to issue 4 of FIT4, your quarterly Lloyd’s Community fitness, health and wellbeing newsletter brought to you by the Lloyd’s Wellbeing Centre.
What is Prehabilitation?
What is Prehabilitation? And could it help you? People usually seek osteopathic help when they are injured or in pain, however Prehabilitation is a form of physical or corrective exercise therapy that aims to prevent injuries occurring. If you are unlucky enough to have suffered injury the same strategies are used reduce recovery time and…
8 Top Tips for preventing lower back pain
Research has revealed that lower back pain is the highest cause of disability in the world. A study by The Global Burden of Disease found that out of the 291 conditions studied, lower back pain came in highest in terms of years lost to disability and sixth in terms of overall burden. The study is important in…
How did you sleep last night?
Are you getting a poor night’s sleep? Waking up tired and aching? You may be one of the thousands in the UK that are neglecting your wellbeing by sleeping on a poor quality mattress. Getting a proper night’s sleep is essential to your mental, emotional and physical welfare. In fact, back and neck pain is…
Top Tips to Reduce Work-Related Back Pain
Back pain is the second most common cause of long term absence across the UK work force and, somewhat ironically, it’s the office workers that are more likely to suffer from chronic back pain. Bad posture is a major contributing factor. If you are one of the unlucky 80% of desk workers that suffer from…
Back Pain: Top 3 Ways to Help Yourself
Back pain can make you really miserable. Obviously, we’d advise that you make an appointment with one of our Wellbeing Centre practitioners, but there are steps that you can take to look after yourself at home and at work. Following these tips will make it easier to get your back pain under control and make…
5 Myths about Back Pain
Myself and my colleagues at the Lloyd’s Wellbeing Centre regularly hear these common myths about back pain – which ones do you hear? Myth 1: “Back pain goes away.” Patients are often told by GPs that episodes of back pain usually go away within 4-8 weeks. The reality is that if you have suffered from…
Why back pain doesn’t just “go away”
When patients use the Internet to learn about back pain, they can find a common myth repeated – that back pain can resolve on its own within 2-8 weeks. But as I explain to my patients, you’re not “healed” just because you don’t feel pain. When it comes to the most common injuries affecting the…
Are you sitting comfortably?
Are you one of the 80% of desk workers that suffer from arm, neck or shoulder pain due to a ‘workstation’ that is not fitted to you? Here are my tips for how to ease those aches and pains… Tip 1 – Its all about you Think of your workstation as if it was your…