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

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

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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 […]

Winter Wellness: Can osteopathy help with colds and sinus pain?

Winter Wellness: Can osteopathy help with colds and sinus pain?

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A London Bridge Osteopath’s Guide to Beating the Winter Cold Winter in the UK usually means grey skies, soggy shoes, and the inevitable “winter lurgy.” We’ve all been there — huddled under a duvet with a box of tissues, feeling like our head is stuck in a vice and our chest is tight enough to explode. While many of us reach for Lemsip or Night Nurse and hope for the best, osteopathy offers a gentle, non-pharmacological way to support your body’s recovery. At our London Bridge osteopathy clinic, we regularly help patients from London Bridge, Borough, and Southwark who are […]

Long Covid: The Lasting Impact The Perrin Technique and Long Covid

Long Covid: The Lasting Impact

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Post Viral Fatigue – Long COVID: Can Perrin Technique help? It’s been in the news a lot with examples of previously fit and healthy marathon runners, busy nurses and generally well and active people having COVID-19 but then never really shaking the symptoms of fatigue and general malaise. In some cases, those symptoms appear to worsen and remain for many months after the original infection. This is not a phenomenon unique to COVID-19, these fatigue symptoms can occur after any serious infection. What’s important to remember is that after any illness your body will naturally be fatigued, and this is […]