Align Osteopathic Practice

22/05/2018

How to Sleep in Your Favorite Position Without Harming Your Back!

Doctors claim that it’s your favorite sleep position that can cause problems with your health. Meanwhile, you don’t have to change your habits to be healthy, you just need to make some corrections.

30/04/2018

This is a good read if you were ever unsure what you should use...

Are you confused about when to use heat or cold therapy for your lower back pain? Let us clear it all up for you.

23/10/2017

Anyone else have issues with sleeping like me?

We have just been learning about sleep issues, here are some facts and tips:

💤 if you take more than 30 mins to get off to sleep or have less than 3.5hrs sleep a night you may have insomnia - see GP
💤 iPads and bright electronic light can cause delayed sleep time leading to poor quality of sleep
💤 if you fall asleep too quickly ie less than 5 minutes you are sleep deprived
💤 sleep walking and talking is done in DEEP SLEEP and not associated with dreaming. It is when the talking/walking part of your brain wakes up but your conscious brain remains asleep
💤 EVERYBODY dreams, you have to have woken up within 3 minutes of your R.E.M. sleep to remember that dream.
💤 night terrors again are only in deep sleep and not related to a dream - that is a nightmare.
It is when the area associated with fear in your brain wakes up but everthing else is asleep.
Do not wake someone or react to a night terror especially if they are a child, as this installs the fear. A nightmare will have a story associated to it a night terror the person will have no recollection of the behaviour upon waking.
💤don’t fall asleep in front of the TV go to bed, you have reached your ‘sleep gate’ the genetic time instilled in each individual - when your body naturally wants to sleep.
💤 after the age of 35 men’s sleep quality deteriorates this does not occur in women typically until the age of 55
💤 insomniacs are 3 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s later in life
💤 are you sleepy or tired? Answer this question - if you climb 3 flights of stairs when you get to the top are you exhausted or do you need to take a nap? If the answer is nap you are sleep deprived and may have a form of insomnia or sleep apnoea so see your GP
💤 we are creatures of habit so setting an alarm to wake up the same time everyday (including weekends) is the single biggest thing you can do to help improve your sleep quality
💤 sleep readers ie fitbits only monitor movement and are a very poor indicators of how you actually sleep.
💤 all mammals dream - no conclusive evidence for birds or insects

So many sleep facts, lets hope I have a good one tonight!

Sweet dreams!

20/08/2017

To all our fitness enthusiasts and runners... check out these trainers. Engineering behind these are pretty impressive!
You can also say goodbye to shin splints, activity related knee issues too!

13/04/2017

To all our patients that have suffered with sciatica, this is a great video to help explain what is happening at the spine...

01/03/2017

We welcomed our new osteopath Mark Wilcox to the clinic last month, and finally the website has now been updated with his bio.

http://www.alignosteopathicclinic.com/meet-the-team.html

To welcome Mark to the team, we are offering free consultations with him this month, so if you are new to osteopathy you could find out how it can help any issues or concerns. Mark is available at the clinic on Wednesday evenings or all day Saturday.

As an introductory offer with Mark, we will give you £5 off your first treatment!

Please message or feel free to call us to book in on 01252 621527.

Align Osteopathic Clinic Fleet - Free consulation, warm, friendly and professional care

26/02/2017

Our Lovely clinic in Ancells Farm (check out the 360 degree view!), where our healing hands are at work :)

04/01/2017

Happy new year facebookers!!
We are open to our usual open hours this week... See you soon!

06/12/2016

THE icy weather could leave millions of arthritis sufferers in agony, say scientists.