Several weeks ago a lovely lady popped into one of my clinics. She is an avid reader of the Health & Wellbeing magazine and remembered that in one of my articles I had said that acupuncture was extremely effective at treating hay fever and sinus issues. She wasn’t interested in treatment for herself, it was […]
Albert Einstein put it best when he said, “Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.” This certainly rings true for me when it comes to the menopause. At the ripe old age of 47 (closer to 48 now) I’ll be honest and say that the menopause certainly wasn’t on my radar. I was too […]
Fertility is a very emotive topic for all of us. Our ability to reproduce and have children is fundamental to us as human beings. The desire to do so is literally written in our DNA yet we barely give it a thought until it goes wrong! More often than not I’m the last port of […]
It was a cold November afternoon when Emma* first presented in my clinic. She was pale and drawn and looked exhausted. Emma had just been told that she would never have a child naturally due to endometriosis that had gone undiagnosed for a number of years. She was clearly still reeling from the news. IVF […]
It’s fair to say that the majority of male clients that attend me do so for musculoskeletal problems. It can be anything from back pain to neck pain to shoulder pain to hip pain to sciatica. I see all of this daily. I’m also seeing a lot more male athletes that utilise treatment to prepare […]
Despite being around for over 3 thousand years, acupuncture is still having to fight its way to be seen as a reputable medicine here in the west. Some people dismiss it as a placebo, while others see it as nothing more than voodoo or some sort of magic. Yet acupuncture is steeped in science and […]
1. By looking at your tongue I can often tell whether you have an issue with your heart. The tip of the tongue correlates to the heart and changes in this area along with assessing underneath the tongue, particularly the sublingual veins, can indicate whether the heart is under pressure from atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis. 2. […]