Back pain

Ask your Osteopath: Top tips for a healthy back

Andrew Doody, Resident Shine N16 Osteopath, was asked to answer patients' most common questions about working from home and the perils of bad posture...

Working from home? Top tips for a healthy back and good working posture

As many of you are now working from home, I thought it might be worth going through a few pointers about how to do this healthily...

How To Work a Demanding Desk Job and Not End Up in Pain

Dealing with Desk Job Aches, improving posture and finding workable solutions at Shine, Stoke Newington Church Street with Sarah Warman, Alexander Technique Practitioner.

Dealing with Chronic or Undiagnosed Pain

How we relate to pain, especially undiagnosed pain can make a difference to how we heal. Using the example of lower back pack, find out how we can help ourselves and be supported to come through it, by Justin Redpath, Osteopath, Massage Practitioner and Craniosacral Therapist at Shine.

Pain free Posture for Parents

There are many expected joys of being a parent: your baby’s first smile, first words, first steps, first day at school and so on...

Does the cold weather affect back or joint pain?

Many people I see in my physiotherapy clinics believe that the cold weather is causing a worsening of their back or joint pain...

Expert Bed Advice

An Osteopathic Approach to Sleep and Bedding Many people attribute back pain to injury, weight issues, poor posture and lack of, or strains from exercise...

A parent’s guide to avoiding back pain

The link between back pain and pregnancy is well documented but, unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there...

Winter posture alert!

Did you know that the weather can affect your posture? As we head into the colder season, it is worth thinking about the subtle changes we all tend to make to our posture as the temperature drops...

What is the Alexander Technique?

This year’s theme for the International Alexander Awareness week is reducing stress by using the ‘semi supine position’, but the technique has a much wider application than this...

Reflexology and back pain

First of all, it is important to be clear on what reflexology is not: reflexology is not a foot massage...