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Compaints in Parliament about ‘spurious complaints’ concerning Chiropractic – good thing too!

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Look what’s been said about chiropractic in the House:

There are also serious problems in chiropractic, which one might call an assisted discipline to osteopathy. The General Chiropractic Council has been bombarded by complaints from bloggers—spurious complaints I would say—which it is obliged by law to investigate. I am very concerned that genuine complaints will not get through and that any practitioner, against whom a genuine complaint had been lodged, could continue to practise. Will the Minister look at this very unsatisfactory situation, which arose following an individual losing a court case against the British Chiropractic Association?
David Tredinnick

and

The opposition is based on what I call the SIP formula—superstition, ignorance and prejudice. It tends to be based on superstition, with scientists reacting emotionally, which is always a great irony. They are also ignorant, because they never study the subject and just say that it is all to do with what appears in the newspapers, which it is not, and they are deeply prejudiced, and racially prejudiced too, which is troubling

Now, he may seem to be a bit mad to you but that does not mean that he isn’t right.

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How much water do they want me to drink!

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

We bang on at our patients to drink more water and tell them the right amounts that they should be drinking. This is based on covering what you lose with a bit added on top for safety’s sake. You lose in a day:
Normal Weather Warm Weather Warm Weather
No exercise No exercise Exercise

Skin (not sweat) 350 ml 350 ml 350 ml
Sweat 100 ml 1400 ml 5000 ml
Respiratory Tract 250 ml 350 ml 650 ml
Urine 1400 ml 1200 ml 500 ml
Faeces 100 ml 100 ml 100 ml

Total 2,300 ml (2.3l) 3,300 ml (3.3l) 6,600 ml (6.6l)
(sorry about the tabbs)
So, a fair bit every day.

You do get water from your food and from metabolic water production, about 1.5L a day and we suggest:

Sedentary individuals drink at least 2L or about 8 cups of water per day

Athletes in normal climates drink at least 3L or about 12 cups of water per day.

Athletes in hot weather climates drink at least 4L or about 16 cups of water per day.

There you go, set in stone.

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Why does my back keep going wrong?

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Have a look at this elegant bit of thinking and see if it makes some sense for you:

http://chiropractor.blog.co.uk/2009/10/08/why-is-my-back-going-wrong-7124076/

If not call us and let’s talk it through.

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What can you do to help disc herniation?

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Well, the answer is not a great deal. These are pretty inert structures and should be tackled by experts however,

These are the exercises – but check with your Chiropractor before you go wild.

McKenzie exercises for disc protrusion

Firstly, lie face down with your hands under your shoulders in the press-up position. Let your low-back muscles relax and lightly tense up your gluts and continue to breathe normally. This can take a couple of minutes to get fully ready to go.

Then, slowly raise your shoulders off the ground until you are resting on your elbows and let your low-back ‘sag’ with gravity on to the bench. If you can hold this for a couple of minutes.

Then, if comfortable, lift your shoulders up a little further and hold for a further few minutes.

What’s it going on – your pain should shrink towards the centre of your low-back, called ‘centralize’. The exercise stretches some of the low-back muscles that compress the discs. It aslo lowers the internal pressure in the disc by pulling the disc apart slightly and so encourages the ‘stuff’ in the disc to move back into the disc body.

• Don’t do them for 1 hour after getting up. Let gravity work on your discs and let them settle down.

• Avoid these if you have been diagnosed with spondylolysis.

But there will be some discomfort so work with this but don’t push through the pain, it’ll do you no good.

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Can Clincal Hypnotherapy do anything for my insomnia?

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Our Clinical Hypnotherapist, Zofie, writes:

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist I have worked with clients with sleep problems. These have ranged from not being able to get to sleep, to those who have the ability to fall asleep but then wake during the night and those suffering from terrifying nightmares. A number of clients have suffered for years and arrive with little hope that I can help. As such it is often quite difficult to persuade people that insomnia and poor sleep patterns can be helped in a matter of days or weeks.

Firstly, I ask all sorts of questions relating to the sufferer’s lifestyle and daily schedule as well as probing into their stress levels and stressors. In my experience, what the client is doing is to keep the problem going which becomes apparent very quickly. Sometimes a particular event can trigger the sleep problem and the event may be subsequently dealt with, unfortunately by this time the sufferer has got into the habit of not sleeping or not sleeping well. When facing this challenge the habit can be hard to shift.

For others there doesn’t appear to be a trigger although it can be set off by rising stress levels.
In either event, help in managing stress levels backed up by suggestion work and guidance to help break old habits these longstanding problems can be shifted.

For many individuals it seems like they are stuck in a difficult vicious cycle which can seem almost impossible to break without help; the fear of not sleeping ultimately leads to certain rituals or habits being formed which further serve to strengthen the fear and as a consequence, the problem.
Many sufferers will relate to the idea of the law of revered effect which states: “the harder you try the harder it becomes” and this is especially true for sleep! But it can be hard to stop trying when it has become habitual which is where intense relaxation and confidence building can help.

Hypnotherapy can help you to bridge the gap between the fear of not sleeping and breaking the mould thereby creating new and healthy sleep habits. And, if you would like help and advice on how to deal with a sleep disorder or anything similar please get in touch. I can be contacted on 0117 922 1542 and 07966 094 979.
Zofie
Clinical Hypnotherapist
DHP.HPD.MAPHP.MNCH
CBT Trained

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