Another Iceberg Avoided
Last night the PM announced we go to Tier 5, a newer and bigger iceberg for us to sail around. We remain open as we are considered an essential service As we have reported to you in recent weeks, this pandemic will inevitably cause a lot of emotional and physical pain and we are here…
Read MoreUnderstand Your Body’s Response To Ongoing Stress And How To Deal With It
Humans have a built in primitive and automatic defence mechanism, which today we refer to as our ‘fight or flight’ response. Early human response to being hunted would have been ‘fight or flight’, causing an instant release of a whole cascade of chemical changes in the body, raising breathing rate, blood pressure, blood sugar and…
Read MoreWhat We Do At Our Clinic
Not a month goes by without a number of our patients commenting that they were not aware of all the things we do here and if only they had known they would have booked in sooner. It’s impossible to list everything we do in this small space and the graphic below only gives a sample.…
Read MoreChristmas Holiday is Coming – An Opportunity To Heal and Rejoice A Better 2021
2020 will soon be over and for most of us it can’t come to soon. It will be a year that most of us will want to forget and put behind us. The rapidly approaching Christmas holiday is going to give us exactly that opportunity, a chance to relax, unwind and think of a brighter…
Read More4 Keys Approach Will Be Vital To Deal With The Upcoming Tidal Wave Of Post COVID – 19 Chronic Pain, Depression and Anxiety
COVID-19 has dominated our lives for nearly a year now and while we may be becoming immune to the subject, there are new articles emerging constantly as we learn more about this epidemic, providing important new insights, which we should not ignore. A recent paper, referenced below, published by physiotherapist Dr Adriaan Louw, written for…
Read MoreNicky Snazell’s Wellness & Physiotherapy Clinic Christmas & New Year Hours
This year we will be closed from Thursday 24th December until Friday 1st January inclusive. We will reopen on Monday 4th January. There is bound to be a rush for appointments before Christmas, so don’t leave it for too long before making your appointments to ensure you are ready to enjoy your break. Call…
Read MorePhysiotherapy Is Strategically Placed To Help With Long-COVID Pain Relief
Increasingly, COVID sufferers are experiencing long term pain and debilitation and these consequences are being termed as ‘Long-COVID’ Physiotherapy has been identified as having critical importance in helping treat the upcoming surge of ‘Long- COVID’ pain sufferers. Relief from that pain needs a combination of talking and listening (psychotherapy) to calm the system down, along…
Read MoreChoose The Right Exercise For You And Get The Proven Benefits
Exercise. Even the mention of the word usually causes a groan. We all have our reasons, or excuses, for not exercising, but mainly it’s because we can easily imagine the short term pain, but not so easily visualise the long term benefits. We won’t even try to make it sound like dedicated and consistent exercise…
Read MoreBe Smart. Halve Your Risk
This advice that has been repeated to us since early in the pandemic: Wear a mask Maintain social distance Wash your hands regularly Although this advice smacks of common sense, it is still flagrantly ignored by some. On an almost daily basis, we get patients who complain about having to wear a mask for a…
Read MoreAsk The Right Question
Many of us are frustrated and confused by the arguments and counter arguments we constantly hear about just about anything. How can expert A argue the complete opposite of expert B? Well it depends in part if they were asked the same question. So let’s start with something that probably most of us know about…
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