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Whether You are an Optimist or a Pessimist may affect your Health

Posted by Helen Skehan, Admin in Research News on 24 January 2012 at 5:05pm

Whether You are an Optimist or a Pessimist may affect your Health

A recent research study has shed some interesting light on the differences between Optimists and Pessimists. A study at UCL questioned volunteers to find out how optimistic they were and then conducted brain scans of their frontal lobes (the area of the brain that deals with processing errors) while telling them good and bad news about [...]

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Get into Running

Posted by Helen Skehan, Admin in Hints and tips on 9 December 2011 at 5:17pm

Get into Running

Are you keen to build up a regular routine of running or struggling to get into running? I can highly recommended the free podcast from i-tunes ‘NHS couch to 5 K’. This is a guided progressive running programme starting from a very basic level with intervals of 60 seconds jogging or running with 90 seconds [...]

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Breaking the habit of sitting with your legs crossed

Posted by Helen Skehan, Admin in Hints and tips on 6 September 2011 at 3:20pm

Breaking the habit of sitting with your legs crossed

As a musculoskeletal physio I seem to spend quite a lot of time advising my patients to try and break the habit of sitting with their legs crossed. This can be for a number of reasons – they have back pain stemming from poor sitting posture, sacroiliac joint (the bony connection between your lower back [...]

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Extended services

Posted by Helen Skehan, Admin in Clinic news on 17 August 2011 at 3:08pm

You may have noticed our numbers swelling recently. Our staff members now total 10 with 7 physiotherapists providing services from 8.30am to 8pm Monday to Friday and Saturday mornings, our Massage therapist Clare, Practice administrator Cordelia and Receptionist Myriam.  We would like to thank all of our patients and Referrers for their continued support.

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Rugby Physio Appointment

Posted by Helen Skehan, Admin in Clinic news, Sport on 3 August 2011 at 3:10pm

Congratulations to team member Daniel Brown on being appointed physiotherapist for Blackheath Rugby Club. We wish him and his team every success in the coming season. Daniel is still continuing his clinics here at Physio Solutions and is with us on Tuesdays and Fridays.

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