Archive for January, 2012

Painful Thumb: Here is a brilliant thumb brace for all kinds of aches of the thumb

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Helen How  Registered Osteopath, 14 Craighall Gardens, Edinburgh EH6 4RJ  0131 551 1044  please read reviews if wish.

Excellent protection to pain and discomfort of your over worked thumb


 

 

A brand new CMC thumb brace designed and developed by eminent hand therapists Judy Colditz and Nettie Koekebakker.

Pain of the thumb and osteoarthritis is a common thumb disorder. It is a type of ‘wear and tear’ of the articular cartilage, affecting in particular people between 40 and 60 years of age.The Push CMC is a slim and compact product. The brace can be used in the water. Hygiene is important around the hand. Therefore the synthetic material is antibacterial and the brace can be washed in a washing machine at 40°.

 

This simple clever thumb brace is outstanding,  The thumb joint over the years  is prone to disabling pain which prevents one opening normal screw top bottles, jars tins and all kinds of other essential normal housemaking and job activities.  What most people do not know is that if the ligaments of the thumb are not protected from many of our normal daily activities the fine muscles of our thumb waste away and atrophy leaving to further weakness and permanent dysfunction.

By where this small neat thumb brace, you can get on with your daily activity, keeping your muscles active and therefore not wasting away while the inflammation and ligaments settle down.  For those of you with mild OA of the thumb you can wear the thumb as a temporary protection when you want to do some more heavy activity such as gardening or house hold work.

I had had excellent positive feedback from those who have purchased this neat thumb brace and I have used it for my own thumb which is now  completely pain free.   Taking some types of pain killers actually mean that you damage your joints and ligaments even more or some NSAIDS actually delay or stop the healing of collagen tissue.

Here is the link where you can buy this thumb brace for yourselves, I have added the link to facebook as well  where I add excellent you tube videos and other good sources of better management of all kinds of aches and pains.  Please do go to my facebook link as Facebook is so clever and it looks much neater then my blog.

 

Here is the reviews of this clinic starting from 2006 –    Reviews are increasingly important in this economic climate .

 

Helen How

Registered Osteopath

14 Craighall Gardens

Edinburgh EH6 4RJ

 

 

 

 

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Back Pain and Core Stability – Stuart McGill shows how to train your Core Muscles with further damaging your lumbar joint facets or increasing sciatic pain

Friday, January 13th, 2012

One of the main reasons for the reviews on this clinic are genuine, realistic and charming is thanks to one of my favourite Medical Research is thanks to the years of research by Stuart McGill

I am delighted to see that now Stuart McGill has now some excellent videos on how you can seriously damage your back with excessive exercises on gym equipment (if you wish) or how to exercise safely.

 

As Stuart says most people will suffer from some back pain at time in their lives

Please look and understand this excellent video    One has to keep the spine stiff rather than increase the range of movement as this causes damage on the muscles ligaments and lumbar vertebrae causes chronic inflammation and long term pain.  The wrong movements abuse the back and increase your chronic pain.  Prolonged sitting makes your back muscles weak and much more prone to back injury which is why long term back pain in on the increase

Here is another of Stuart McGill`s videos discussing on how to train you core properly.   The problem is that all those abdominal curls, bending and twisting  rubs presses on the delicate joint facets and their surrounding tissues, leading to increased mechanical inflammation.  So you can strengthen your core abdominal muscles which is wonderful if you are young and no mechanical wear and tear in your joint facets however if you are using those weight bearing vibroplates your are vibrating your worn out joints together, increasing the risk of inflammation and Osteoarthritic changes, irritating your vertebral ligaments and potentially causing a great deal more long term harm

Mark Comerford has been researching with his team and they have produced a new much safer more efficient series of  core exercises are simple quick and effective and can be done in a few minutes at home.

Helen How

Registered Osteopath

14 Craighall Gardens

Edinburgh EH6 4RJ

Fees £35.00 for hour  and for simple follow up cases £20 for half an hour.

I have kept to these comfortable affordable fees for years as I find it takes one hour for many of the more challenging complicated cases.

 

 

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