Are you sitting comfortably?
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin… This week, we look at how the way you sit can affect your back pain.
Health & Performance Pyramid: Performance Layer
The performance layer of Nell’s Health & Performance Pyramid helps you move on from physio, through strength, endurance and flexibility.
Case study: Life after breast cancer
Recovering from breast cancer isn’t just about surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy – it’s also important to maintain your movement, especially around the shoulder, so that you can get back to a fairly normal life. Meet our lovely patient Jill, who’s managing just that.
Stress hormones and how they work
This week, we explore the science behind the hormones of acute and chronic stress – adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol. How do they work, when do they help us – and when do they become a problem?
Yoga for Stressed People
Get back on track with our new online programme, Yoga for Stressed People! Learn why and how we get stressed, the consequences of stress taking over your life, and strategies for controlling it – including an easy yoga sequence and mood tracker. Plus a 75% discount when you use the code EARLYBIRD.
Health & Performance Pyramid: Health Layer – Exercise Rehabilitation
It’s time to look at exercise rehabilitation – the all-too-often missing link between finishing physio, and getting back to everyday life. So what is it, and why does Nell place so much emphasis on it?
Health & Performance Pyramid: Health Layer – Physiotherapy
In my physio practice, I don’t just look at the bit that hurts. Instead, I play “detective”, to work out the underlying cause of your problem, starting with a 90 minute assessment to find out what’s really going on with your body and work out a plan of action…
Health & Performance Pyramid: Foundation Layer
Why do I place so much emphasis on the Foundation Layer of the Health & Performance Pyramid? Two reasons: systemic inflammation and metabolic efficiency…
Health & Performance Pyramid: An Introduction
The Health & Performance Pyramid underpins all of my work, and is my diagrammatic representation of how your health works. Get the building blocks in place to achieve normal, pain-free function.
What to do about chronic inflammation 6: Powdered green drinks
Once again writing about how to control chronic inflammation, this week Nell explores the benefits of super greens drinks (spoiler: she has one every morning before work)