About Back and Neck Pain.

One of the most common conditions that we see and treat in the practice is low back pain. The cause of the pain often being linked to an activity that has increased that loading on the joints of the lower back leading to strain in the joint capsule, ligaments, surrounding muscles, etc. Read more...

The sciatic nerve is a large nerve that originates from the lower part of the spine. The nerve tissue is highly sensitive and it can give symptoms from mild intermittent aching in the buttock to constant pain through the whole leg sometimes with pins and needles, numbness or muscle weakness. Read more...

A cricked neck can happen at any time. Most commonly it occurs with a sudden movement, e.g. when drying our hair with towel, a sudden glance over the shoulder or we might wake in the morning with a stiff neck. This is also quite common in children (wry neck). There is often a sharp local pain felt in the neck and certain movements of the neck may also begin to stiffen Read more...

The thoracic spine is the area of our spine that runs from the base of our neck to approximately our waistline. It has the attachment of our ribs and is therefore less mobile than, for example, our neck Read more...

A lot of neck and back pain and/or referred pain into the arms, elbow or wrist and hand can be linked to poor desk ergonomics or layout Read more...