Wishing all those who come across this blog a very Happy New Year! May 2015 be the year of achievement and progress in whatever you would like to pursue. We have goals and visions and new years’ resolutions are a norm all over the world. It would be great to achieve the resolutions and make
Holistic Health & Healing uses natural means such as acupuncture and massage and advises on correct diet and lifestyle. The saying prevention is better than cure is a way of saying that it is easier to prevent an illness than to treat it. Treatments can be costly, life-changing and sometimes damaging. Therefore, it is often
Acupuncture and Massage helps the transition into Spring…the spring in the step! The transition from the recuperative, long and hopefully rested and hibernated winter can bring out the ready to go, geared up spring in our step once spring is upon us. It seems the case in the last few weeks. There are more smiling
Reflecting on the year just gone, I had received quite a few comments/remarks about the benefits of acupuncture from patients and would like to share some with you here. Here is a brief, but not exhaustive list of what acupuncture can do: Decrease stress levels Improve immune function Promotes youthful appearance Provides pain relief Improves
This week’s acupuncture blog is inspired by a testimonial received from a patient following a recent accident abroad: “I had travelled to London on vacation several days after an automobile accident involving me as a passenger. I had been of several minds whether to cancel the trip altogether as I had injured my foot, right
Literally so to speak! Today’s write up is inspired by this week being dedicated to The BackCare Awareness Week 2013 especially for carers. In the borough of Barnet, we have a large elderly population without doubt. My next-door neighbour is now in her 90’s. As an Acupuncturist and Massage Therapist, I see carers on a
My blog for this week is about a particular type of pain, tennis elbow. You don’t have to play tennis to suffer from tennis elbow that I can tell you for sure! I have treated various different age groups with this condition in the last 12 years of practice. Tennis elbow is considered an overload
Acupuncture is great for pain relief and is well known for it. People always associate needles to help pain of various sorts. I shall focus on headaches this week, as I treated a lot of them last week! They say there is a pill for every ill. One of the more natural way of relieving
I routinely ask my patients as to why they need a massage and reason they come for repeats. Below is a list of the most common reasons, along with some research which I have found to back these up. 1. We are not really designed for sitting Massage counteracts all that sitting we do. The
At Holistic Health & Healing we are pleased to be of help for a vast number of conditions, the most common being aches and pains and to assist fertility. Acupuncture as a natural pill-less treatment is known to be of great benefit for pain relief and we see it work time and again. As recent
