Category: Pysical Activity

Lower Back Pain From Sitting All Day? An Osteopath’s Guide

Lower Back Pain From Sitting All Day? An Osteopath’s Guide

London Bridge Osteopath, Alexandra Wachter explains why people suffer from low back pain if they sit all day and what osteopaths can do to help. If you spend most of your working day at a desk, you’ve probably felt it — that dull ache in your lower back that builds through the afternoon, or the stiffness that hits when you finally stand up after a long meeting. This is one of the most common things I treat in patients working around London Bridge, and it’s rarely as simple as “sitting is bad for you.” Why sitting all day actually causes […]

Make Physical Activity Part of Daily Life Make Physical Activety part of daily life at all stages of life

Make Physical Activity Part of Daily Life

One of the reasons I became an osteopath in the first place was a deep-seated belief that the pursuit of wellness is the most direct approach to battling the fight against disease and ill health. Osteopathy works on the principle that the body has everything it needs to keep itself working and well; it’s where there is a disturbance in the body’s ability to draw upon it’s own resources that ill health ensues. So keeping a healthy and active body, free from tensions and restrictions is key to staying healthy for longer.