West Street Wellbeing

04/12/2023

Hooray!! The street paving is finished and the street is surprisingly free of construction workers- is there a construction workers holiday or could the metro actually be finished?? 🤷‍♀️

02/11/2023

Our incredible, much loved, massage therapist Trish Clive is back!
WELCOME BACK SPECIAL: For your first massage back, book 90 mins for the price of 60! No strings just amazing massage 💆‍♀️ Jump online to book 👍

02/11/2023

Finally posting some pics of the new (not so new 😄) clinic space at 28 Clarke Street. We can’t believe it’s been a year since leaving West Street for Crows Nest! We absolutely love it here.💕🙏🫶🏻👍

24/10/2022

We have officially moved! Today is the first day in the new space. Having a bit of trouble with the phone and internet so for the time being please direct any enquiries to 0400 912 318. Sms might be better while I'm on the phone to Telstra trying to sort it all out! Online Bookings are open.
The address is L6, 28 Clarke Street Crows Nest. 2 hours free parking (before 6pm) in the Hume Street Car park opposite. Photos of the new space coming soon.

24/10/2022

WE HAVE MOVED!
Our New Address:
L6, 28 Clarke Street, Crows Nest.

11/10/2022

Never a better time to ditch the Diet Coke for good.

A new Study has found artificial sweeteners are now clearly linked to increased risk of disease and death from Stroke and Cardio Vascular (Heart) disease. Aspartame (found in almost all diet drinks as well as sweetened yoghurts, medicines for kids and much more) was linked to a 17% increase in stroke, while Sucralose (found in diet drinks, protein powders, jams and other processed foods) was linked to a 40% increase in CVD, including elevated cholesterol.

Yowsers.

If you want to take radical steps to get these problem foods out of your diet - know that you can do it! and if you need help, give us a hoy.

Details in the linked article care of Vital.ly.
Love to hear your thoughts.

Present in thousands of food & beverages, here is a recent study on artificial sweeteners impact on cardiovascular health

21/09/2022

West Street Wellbeing is moving!
Our beautiful clinic space on West Street, North Sydney is going to be converted to a residence and West Street Wellbeing has found a new home at a great new location in Crows Nest.
The new space is in Clarke St, Crows Nest in a super convenient spot with great parking and easy access - its going to feel a bit different as you arrive being in a small office building but rest assured it will be brimming with the same beautiful style and good vibes you've come to know and love at West Street.
The fit out on the new space is currently underway and we expect it to be ready to move in sometime around the middle of October.

We'll post some photos of the progress of the new space soon. And we'll make sure everyone knows exactly where they need to be.

For the time being, all appointments are still at West Street.

Excitng times!

21/03/2022

Diastasis Recti what is it and how do you
Minimise it?

As your uterus and baby grow during pregnancy, there's more and more pressure pushing on your abdominal wall. This pressure causes the linea alba — a line of soft tissue that connects both sides of the re**us abdominis (the "six-pack muscles") and runs right down the center of your stomach — to stretch.
When the linea alba stretches, you end up with a gap or separation between the two sides of your re**us abdominis.

https://apple.news/AAKlr5humQeiZSnrSKE6JdQ

Some ab separation during pregnancy is inevitable, but doing safe ab exercises to prevent diastasis recti can help you stay strong and relieve low back pain.

08/01/2022

29/12/2021

I’m always telling patients that a sedentary lifestyle is bad, and to move around as much as possible at work… so I am practicing what I preach!!

Handstands between patients will improve my strength, flexibility, balance, and my core. Plus they are a heap of fun 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️

28/07/2021

The history of the role of Chinese medicine in inoculation against disease

Several accounts from the 1500s describe smallpox inoculation as practiced in China and India (one is referred to in volume 6 of Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China). Glynn and Glynn, in The Life and Death of Smallpox, note that in the late 1600s Emperor K'ang Hsi, who had survived smallpox as a child, had his children inoculated. That method involved grinding up smallpox scabs and blowing the matter into nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into the skin. It is difficult to pinpoint when the practice began, as some sources claim dates as early as 200 BCE.

28/07/2021

Watching the Olympics? Are you curious about cupping?

Cupping therapy for pain relief: Give it a try!!!!

https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/olympics-tokyo-2020-why-swimmers-are-covered-in-weird-spots/news-story/e536d97fb34787865162f4be30ba6f6a

Many swimmers at this year’s Olympics, including Australia’s Kyle Chalmers, are covered in bizarre, dark splotches — leading many to ask what on earth is going on.

26/07/2021

National Pain Week starts today! And we have some excellent research to share on how acupuncture may bring long lasting relief for people with chronic pain! If you're bothered by musculoskeletal, headache or osteoarthritic pain, ask for advice from your Registered Acupuncturist.

08/05/2021

Your view from my treatment table 😊

31/01/2021

Give yourself the gift of health! Eat well, exercise often, and you will smile more 😀

29/01/2021

Everything in life has challenges, decide what you want as an outcome and pursue the challenge that gets you there!

Remember easy options now, will result in hardships later!