Homeopathy : Which Way Now? | Best Syndication

This article is very pro-Homeopathy and calls for more open mindedness in the NHS for using homeopathic remadies alongside more conventional treatment.

Flu Patients Recover Twice as Fast by Taking Elderberry Extract - Greenhouse Communications

I've not come across elderberry extract before but this looks like an interesting study of it's effects on recovery of people having flu. The sample size was fairly small but the study was done as a double blind and the figures are impressive.
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Kiss Shoulder Pain Goodbye: Proper Technique - The Key to Preventing and Relieving Shoulder Pain

This is quite specific so it may not be of interest to most people but it is a very detailed guide to the correct strokes to be used when swimming to avoid shoulder pain.

MedlinePlus: Surgery Only Slightly Better for Herniated Disc

Okay, time for a little rant.

These doctors admit that the outcome of surgery for sciatica due to herniated discs is only slightly better than non-surgical treatment. Yet they are still saying that surgery is the preferred option for some case.

I would have thought that cutting somebody open would be the absolute last resort; expecially if there are less invasive methods which can give results almost as good!

Big Purses: Convenience May Cause Future Pain

For purses here read handbag or shoulderbag in the UK.

I feel quite strongly about this as I did a lot of damage to my own shoulder carrying a heavy shoulder bag on one shoulder for many years.

I now find together with heavy computer use it's one of the more common reasons for severe shoulder pain with my clients.

Straight Up: Don't Be a Slouch - Psychology Today

This is a bit basic but it does suggest a few simple stretches which may help to prevent postural problems.

WOODTV.com & WOOD TV8 - Grand Rapids news and weather - The Mind as Medicine

It's good to see hospitals starting to use some of the relaxation techniques that have been common on complementary therapy for years.

As an aside, sometimes people ask me how I know that the relief people who visit me get is as a result of the therapy and isn't the placebo effect.

Firstly I've seen the techniques work on animals who probably don't know about the placebo effect.

However the main answer I have is that I don't care!
The thing that's important to me is that people regularly feel better after treatments, they have almost always have less pain and they always have less stress and I don't really care if that is the placebo effect.

They feel better without any dangerous side effects and that exactly what I want to achieve.

Backpacks Weighing Our Children Down

This article was written several years ago but the problem of children carrying heavy backbacks is still as freash as ever.

The advice to paarents in the article are mostly common sense but it's worth a look as a reminder.