Eating and immunity
By Admin
Due to our environment becoming a fairly hostile place of late, the rise of anxiety led behaviour leads straight into our health.
Sleeping and immunity
By Admin
Sleep is hugely overlooked and underestimated in terms of the correlation with health
Working from home? Part 3
By Admin
Whether you have let your physical fitness go over the last year of COVID, or embraced the opportunity to be more active and get sporty, injuries can happen.
Working from home? Part 2
By Admin
A lot of people now working from home have found this "new normal" to be a great way of improving their work life balance.
Working from home? Part 1
By Admin
During the first lockdown almost 50% of employed people in the UK worked from home
Awareness days in February
By Admin
There are many amazing awareness days in February.
At Shepherds Health we are delighted to announce a new corporate partnership with 442 Sports Management Group.
We Remain Open
By Admin
Shepherds' Health remains open from our new clinic in Barnston.
About Barbara and her therapy practice.
We are recruiting!
By Admin
Are you an enthusiastic and well skilled Physiotherapist or other Health & Wellbeing Therapist?
Peak performance or returning to normal movement all require strength and power and the benefits of strength and conditioning training is undeniable.
Marathon Training Support
By Admin
The Virgin Money London Marathon ballot results are now out and should you be ‘lucky’ enough to have gained a place your training should be underway!
Rehabilitation after ACL Injury
By Admin
ACL Rehabilitation The acronym ACL has become synonymous with Skiing and Football.
Dealing with shoulder pain
By Admin
Far too often we see patients in the clinic with an incorrect diagnosis of frozen shoulder.
Physiotherapy For Hip Pain
By Admin
Structures in and around the hip commonly cause pain, and are particularly rife when we enter our middle years.
Dealing with elbow pain
By Admin
It is the number one cause of lateral elbow pain. Although a common injury amongst tennis players it is not solely defined to this activity.
Preventing and Treating ACL Injuries
By Admin
The acronym ACL has become synonymous with Skiing. This is mainly due to the traumatic nature of injuries which result in an excessive twisting of the knee.
Dealing with knee pain
By Admin
Knee Osteoarthritis Knee pain is a common problem for many people, as work and sporting activities start to catch up with us.
Understanding The Brain - article 1
By Admin
We believe strongly that in order to successfully treat our clients we must have a deep level of understanding of the body and how it works.
Areas of The Brain - article 2
By Admin
Continuing the theme of understanding our nervous system we must understand a bit more about the functioning parts of the brain.
Limitations of The Brain - article 3
By Admin
At Shepherds’ Health we understand that our nervous system controls everything we sense and do.
Neuroplasticity - article 4
By Admin
We understand Neuroplasticity – the brains ability to learn and re-learn movement patterns, behaviour and sensations.
Emotions and The Brain - article 5
By Admin
We understand that Emotions within our brain can have both a positive and negative effect on how we feel and how we physically function.
We understand that our brains make us who we are. It stores memories and all the experiences from our life.
The Social Brain - article 7
By Admin
The Social Brain At Shepherds’ Health we understand that our brains benefit from social interaction.
At Shepherds’ Health we understand that for all of us our lives getting busier and more stressful.
At Shepherds’ Health we are always looking to develop our therapists in a wide range of treatment approaches.
Help to overcome back pain
By Admin
Dr Peter O’Sullivan reinforced the need for us to understand all of the many contributing factors to the chronic back pain that we feel.
Physio: Stay Active, Stay Healthy
By Admin
A huge part of Physiotherapy is empowering people to improve their activity levels.
Can pain be over treated?
By Admin
Professor Peter O’Sullivan of Pain-Ed.com recently discussed the potential over treatment of athletes with back pain.
A look at how our general fitness and health may be effecting our pain levels or our susceptibility to developing chronic pain.
Do you want to stop relying on the pain killers and avoid spinal injections and surgery, but don’t know how?
It is commonly believed that pain is an inevitable part of getting older and that there is nothing to do about it except grit your teeth and deal with it.
Managing lower back pain
By Admin
Management of lower back pain has historically been done very poorly throughout the world.
Get some sleep!
By Admin
A study by University of Rochester Scientists in the journal Science reveals that the brain's unique method of waste removal.
Pain Perception & The Human Brain
By Admin
A fantastic animation of the anatomy of Chronic Pain.
Physiotherapy Case Study: Insomnia
By Admin
A common misconception is that physiotherapists only treat sports injuries, back pain and give out exercises.
Low Back Pain: The Perfect Storm
By Admin
Suffering lower back pain? Have had for years or it has recently started?
The Drug Cabinet in the Brain
By Admin
We have another interesting video for you from David Butler of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute.
An update on the topic of pain
By Admin
Why do I have pain? Watch this video from world leading pain Physiotherapist and Neurologist, Lorimer Moseley.
What is pain?
By Admin
Pain is the bodies alarm system and without it we would not survive.
