Thoracic Rings and how you treat them. One Thoracic Ring = 2 x ribs + breast bone + vertebrae. There are 10 complete rings and an additional 2 incomplete rings. Your thorax is your rib cage in 3D. The thorax is made up of your spinal vertebrae...
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“Core” muscles and prevention of Back Pain
What are the Core muscles? Why are they so talked about? The 'core' muscles refer to muscles of the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex (our trunk muscles). They connect our upper body with the lower body and are responsible for assisting functional movement. However they are...
Back pain – a victim between the thorax and the pelvis.
Low Back pain: is often the victim between a stiff rib cage/ thorax above and tight hips or pelvis below. Read on to learn how this happens. Another cause of back pain can be misalignment elsewhere in the body affecting how you move your lower back. See the Integrated...
Headache and Jaw Pain
Causes and treatment of headaches and jaw (TMJ) pain. There are as many causes of headaches as there are types of headaches. Headaches may start from musculoskeletal causes such as pressure on nerves, or tension in muscles in the head and neck, or upper shoulders, or...
Gentle treatment for spinal pain
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a non-invasive and gentle touch treatment. It can relieve deep body tension, easing dysfunction and pain. CST focuses on regulating the flow of cerebrospinal fluid within the craniosacral system. This is the soft tissues and fluid that...
Whiplash – How the deep neck muscles change with neck pain.
The deep cervical extensors (at the back of the spine) and flexors (at the front of the spine) control segmental movements in the cervical spine. When the neck is injured, particularly in whiplash, the balance of these muscles is disturbed. Structural changes such as...
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