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Lucks Yard Clinic

The chiropractic clinic that helps you keep going …

The chiropractic clinic
that helps you keep going …

Sit down, stand up – more research

I recently wrote a blog highlighting Australian research that shows alternating between sitting and standing at work may help reduce pain. Luck’s Yard Clinic has carried out its own survey with a local company looking at how active people are during their working day, what musculoskeletal or other pain they feel and whether stress affects [...]

Nutrients slow brain ageing

Following research at Oxford Univeristy people wth early memory loss may be offered a range of B vitamins alongside fatty acids. The two year study on Alzheimer’s showed that a combination of Vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid with omega 3 fatty acids prevented brain shrinkage – a characteristic of Alzheimer’s. Professor David Smith will [...]

Help for damaged muscles

Research shows that the best way to treat post-exercise pain is to carry on exercising. Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) appears between 24 and 72 hours after working out  and can be alleviated by light movement which has been described as ‘an internal massage for the body’. Many different types of exercise can result in [...]

Healthy Bacteria for your gut

Worldwide fermented foods such as Kefir and Kimchi are gaining in popularity not least because of their ‘functional’ health benefits. There are several research studies looking into the benefits that fermented foods have on our gut bacteria with some astonishing results. Kefir Milk kefir, originating from the Caucasus Mountains and traditionally consumed throughout Easter Europe, [...]

Buggies and back pain

Tone passed this article to me that contains great advice for mums when pushing prams. However, having read the article I would definitely include dads too! Having to push a baby, toddler or small child in a variety of different prams, strollers, double buggies etc can have a big impact on the health of your [...]

Night waking normal for babies

For those parents who are regularly staggering around in the dark at all hours of the night  trying to comfort a crying baby new research may offer a crumb of comfort! A new study from Swansea University has shown that it is perfectly normal for babies up to 12 months to be waking and feeding during [...]

Gym exercise improves lower back pain

Research from the US suggests that more than 80% of adults have suffered with lower back pain at some point. We now live more sedentary lives with many people – at all ages - spending too much time sitting at a desk or hunched over a computer keyboard. Although there are many causes of lower [...]

Younger people at risk of stroke

The Stroke Association has warned of a ‘worrying’ rise in the number of working age men and women having strokes. Despite the fact that the overall rate of strokes is reducing throughout the UK, there has been an increase in the number of hospital admissions from men aged 40-54 years old. Experts say that although [...]

Coeliac Awareness Week

Its Coeliac Awareness week from 11-17th May and Coeliac UK wants to reach the half a million people living in the UK with undiagnosed coeliac disease in the UK. Their aim is to halve the length of time to confirm a diagnosis, which is currently on average, 13 years, and reduce misdiagnosis of IBS by [...]

Junk foods can harm your gut

We all know the dangers of a 'typical' Western diet, high in poor quality fats and processed foods, on our waistlines and hearts but new research highlights how damaging it is for our bowel health. A small scale study asking 20 American and rural African volunteers to swop diets for two weeks has shown how our food choices [...]

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