The Antidote to Sitting: Stretches & Exercises
The Antidote to Sitting: Stretches & Exercises Stretching is a low-impact method of exercise designed to increase flexibility and tone the muscles of the body. If you sit for long…
Chronic Pain Management
This article aims to highlight the complexity of chronic pain, and how a broader view of such pain can help open up avenues in relation to self-managing it.
FIT4 issue 4 – Health, fitness & wellbeing news for the Lloyd’s Community
Welcome to issue 4 of FIT4, your quarterly Lloyd’s Community fitness, health and wellbeing newsletter brought to you by the Lloyd’s Wellbeing Centre.
What is Prehabilitation?
What is Prehabilitation? And could it help you? People usually seek osteopathic help when they are injured or in pain, however Prehabilitation is a form of physical or corrective exercise…
8 Top Tips for preventing lower back pain
Research has revealed that lower back pain is the highest cause of disability in the world. A study by The Global Burden of Disease found that out of the 291 conditions studied,…
How did you sleep last night?
Are you getting a poor night’s sleep? Waking up tired and aching? You may be one of the thousands in the UK that are neglecting your wellbeing by sleeping on…
Top Tips to Reduce Work-Related Back Pain
Back pain is the second most common cause of long term absence across the UK work force and, somewhat ironically, it’s the office workers that are more likely to suffer…
Back Pain: Top 3 Ways to Help Yourself
Back pain can make you really miserable. Obviously, we’d advise that you make an appointment with one of our Wellbeing Centre practitioners, but there are steps that you can take…
5 Myths about Back Pain
Myself and my colleagues at the Lloyd’s Wellbeing Centre regularly hear these common myths about back pain – which ones do you hear? Myth 1: “Back pain goes away.” Patients…
Why back pain doesn’t just “go away”
When patients use the Internet to learn about back pain, they can find a common myth repeated – that back pain can resolve on its own within 2-8 weeks. But…