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5 Tips to Avoid ‘Backpack Back’ When Going Back to School

The health of your spine and nervous system is crucial for everyone, especially children! It’s back to school time and items such as heavy backpacks may be causing injury and discomfort to your child’s spine and nervous system. Here are 5 simple strategies to help…

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Teck Neck: Is technology affecting the health of our children?

In life there are so many advances in technology. Unfortunately these advances are having long term detrimental effects on our health! Most people when using technology have their head and shoulders rounded forward. It is OK to be in this posture for a short period…

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5 Simple Strategies to Improve Neck Pain

The posture of the majority of the population right now is getting worse and worse due to modern technology and lifestyle habits. Most people each day are working in front of their body. This is leading to a posture pattern where the shoulders are rounded…

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3 Common mistakes made for neck pain

Not realizing that using iPhone’s and iPad’s are having a detrimental effect on our neck: It is astonishing if you were to start taking notice of the majority of the population’s posture when they are on their phones, Ipad’s and computers. Billions of people are…

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Sitting all day? Here are some tips to relieve the effects of poor posture!

If you are in a position where you sit all day either at a desk, in a car or even at machinery the effect of poor posture while sitting can be having an effect on your health. Oh, and do not forget mums who sit…

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Plantar Fasciitis: Pain under the foot

It is astonishing how much work feet have to do day in day out without getting much special attention! Being constantly on your feet, wearing shoes with heels (even as high as 2cms can have an effect if you are wearing them all the time,…

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5 tips to prevent back pain when gardening

As the weather warms up, it is so tempting to jump straight out into the garden and start lifting, twisting, bending, pulling and forgetting that your body may not be conditioned for this type of activity. This can really put your back, hips, knees, shoulders,…

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What is the true cause of pain?

Over the course of life, daily stresses, strains and the effects of poor lifestyle choices will have an impact on the body. Initially these stresses will build silently and you will not notice the effect that they are having on you until they eventually reach…

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“Stiletto Survival Guide” this Spring Racing season

Spring racing and party season is upon us, what a fun time of year! Great weather, great company, great food and dressing up. Time to create some wonderful memories. The dampener comes though, as high heels are often a part of the fashion attire. The…

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Setting yourself up for success

5 steps to create a “Morning Ritual” to set yourself up for success: Is the way you start your day setting you up for success? Do you want to be in a peak state to perform at your best throughout the day ahead? Wouldn’t it…

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