Christmas times 2023
I can't believe that we're all ready coming to the end of 2023! I guess that that is a sign that I'm getting more annual experiences. But it means that there will be a pause in my clinics between Christmas and the New Year. My final day will be Friday 22nd...
Foot yoga
The feet are an area that many of us over look, and may try to not think about. However, they are how we interact with the world and move through it so we should at times give them some love. There are 22 bones (!) in the foot itself, and they have 33 joints! The...
Piriformis – seated
This is such a classic stretch that many people do, and it can be seen as variation of Pigeon pose from the Yoga traditions, or the Sign of Four from Pilates. It can also be done lying on the ground and I have also shown it as part of my "Meeting Stretches" but as...
Clam shell – Gluteus Minimus
This is a variation of the Classic Clamshell and this is meant to help focus the effort into one of the deeper hip stabiliser muscles. This is that is the Gluteus Minimus muscle.  This muscle runs vertically from from the boney point of the Greater Trochanter (which...
Clamshell – Gluteus Medius
This is quite a classic movement that is meant to help strengthen one of the hip stabilisers that is the Gluteus Medius muscle.  This muscle fans across the side of the pelvis, from the boney point of the Greater Trochanter (which most people will point to when...
Side of body – lying
The side of the body can be an area that has a lot of tight areas. It can be the waist area or the hips and sides of the legs. So this stretch can be used to access all of them: the quadratus lumborum (QL) or the Glute Minimus, the Tensor Fascia Lata (TFL) and into...
Side of body stretch – Standing
This stretch is a way to open the sides of the body and can feel like a really nice stretch from the hands to the armpit, to the waist, side of the pelvis to the knee. Its a good stretch for the latissimus dorsi muscles (the lats), the Quadratus Lumborus (QL) muscles...
Memories of Goswell Road
The first clinic move I joined the Islington and Clerkenwell Chiropractic Clinics shortly after I completed my Sports & Remedial Massage training in 2010. At the time the clinic was in the parade of shops in th Packington Estate. This was then going to be...
Wrist and forearm stretches
We often forget to stretch the wrists and forearms, even though we may spend a lot of our days at the computer, or holding things. These stretches can be done sitting at the desk, or standing next to it. There is a video at the bottom of this page taking your through...