Louise Mallender Osteopathy

27/08/2025

Absolutely agree big time!!

80-90% of what a doctor sees in any given day is related to our collective modern lifestyles. Many people (doctors included) simply do not understand this. Most of the complaints that afflict us are simply not seen in more traditional societies and cultures.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS NOT ABOUT BLAME. I understand that life can feel tough for so many people. But, we have to collectively understand that when we start paying attention to
👉🏾FOOD,
👉🏾MOVEMENT,
👉🏾SLEEP
👉🏾STRESS..it is amazing how many ‘downstream symptoms’ start to get better or even vanish.

Yes, I know that many people find change hard. But, having seen thousands of patients over the past 23 years, I am pretty clear on the key ingredients necessary for long term change.

Drop a ❤️ below if you found this a helpful reminder this morning. And, let me know below what small changes you are planning to introduce into your life?

02/02/2025

A Bit of Everything!

At Mobilise & Stretch we offer the following things within each class:

A gentle aerobic warm up
Head to toe mobility exercises and stretches
A bit of leg strength work
Balance skills practice
Deep breathing and relaxation
These areas will bring the following benefits, especially of you do the exercises at home between classes!

Improved mobility and flexibility
Better coordination, balance and reduced risk of falls
Reduced fragility
Ani-ageing effects
Stronger bodies to get up put of chairs, off the floor, up or down stairs
Future proofing your quality of life and independence
The psychological benefits that come from being part of a supportive and friendly group
Improved neurological function
Helping to maintain bone mass

£8 per class
Needham Market Community Centre
Fridays 10-11am term time

For more information or to book your place, call Louise on 01449 678250 or 07789935190

24/12/2024

I would like to wish all my lovely patients a happy and restful Christmas 😊😊

16/05/2024

MOBILISE & STRETCH EXERCISE CLASS

Needham Market Community Centre
Fridays 10-11am, term time only
£8 per class

A Bit of Everything!

At Mobilise & Stretch we offer the following things within each class:

A gentle aerobic warm up
Head to toe mobility exercises and stretches
A bit of leg strength work
Balance skills practice
Deep breathing and relaxation
These areas will bring the following benefits, especially of you do the exercises at home between classes!
Improved mobility and flexibility
Better coordination, balance, and reduced risk of falls
Reduced fragility
Ani-ageing effects
Stronger bodies to get up out of chairs, off the floor, up or down stairs
Future proofing your quality of life and independence
The psychological benefits that come from being part of a supportive and friendly group
Improved neurological function
Helping to maintain bone mass

For more information or to book your place, call Louise on 01449 678250 or 07789935190

08/04/2024

Lifestyle Change Support Group
🥗🍎🌅💡🛏🎉🆘☯️🚲🤸‍♀️🍇🙌💪🏃‍♂️🌈

Would you like to join our small face to face group which focuses on many areas of lifestyle to support you with changes to help your health and well being?

It is a relaxed space for learning handy tips, getting up to date evidence based information, sharing ideas and experiences and goal setting where appropriate. Peer support plays a huge role in this group, which is key in helping people reach their goals.

If you know you need to make changes either for your general health, because you want to future proof your later life, or you simply want to just feel better (and you're fed up with feeling rubbish), you don’t have to do it alone and support is here!

Cedars Park Community Centre
6.30-8pm, Tuesdays
£15 per session. You can attend every week or just now and again to suit you.

There will weekly updates on a private WhatsApp group announcing which topic areas we will be looking at so you will know if that session is one you need/want to attend.

To book a space, call me (Louise) on 07789935190 or 01449 678250

15/03/2024

COACHING

For any patients (or non-patients) that don’t already know, I also offer coaching in various areas of lifestyle. One of those areas is help with weight loss.

Excess weight is a major factor in reducing our overall health and well being and so it’s a pretty important one to address.

After your first one or 2 coaching sessions, which will last an hour, it is quite likely that sessions of 30 minutes may be sufficient, once you are making good progress.
The more progress you make or better your changes are established, the longer the gap between your sessions.

The checking in side is a really powerful aspect of coaching, which helps people to stay focused on their goals/changes, as opposed to going it alone.

Charges are as follows:

60 minutes = £60
30 minutes = £40

If you have an aspect of your lifestyle that you want to improve or change, get in touch to see what you can achieve.

Part of my purpose is to help get you on the right track and moving forward, providing support and understanding your unique challenges.

13/03/2024

WEIGHT LOSS

Weight loss is something that a lot of people want to achieve.

At our lifestyle change support group, rather than weighing and measuring you and getting you to count calories and be strict with yourself, our support includes a different approach……

With coming at a weight loss attempt from a place of self compassion and learning about the nutritional quality of food, you will be enabled to make healthier food choices that nourish and energise you.

We also look at eating behaviours/habits that are not serving you and ways to help change those to better ones.

And it’s not just food that affects weight loss!!
Poor sleep, stress, lack of physical activity can all play a part in preventing or slowing down weight loss.

We consider your well being more holistically - discussing stress, sleep and how to become more active, linking other areas of lifestyle together.

Recently within the group we have been looking at how food can affect our mood, which foods cause inflammation and which foods reduce inflammation, stress management, and SMART goals to make healthy dietary changes, chosen by you and based on what works for you!

If this sounds like the sort of approach you would like to try, or would prefer to conventional dieting, please get in touch on 07789935190 or 01449 678250.

Our group sessions are at Cedars Community Centre on Tuesday evenings, 6.30-8pm. £15 per session.

Alternatively, I offer weight loss and nutritional coaching on a one to one basis.

Thank you for reading

Louise

18/02/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/yUTnVQWHHtyTHbR4/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Lifestyle medicine is branch of evidence-based medicine in which comprehensive lifestyle changes (including nutrition, physical activity, stress management, social support and environmental exposures) are used to prevent, treat and reverse the progression of chronic diseases by addressing their underlying causes.

An easier explanation is one which my patients understand.

Rather than continuing to mop up the overflow from a bathtub, lifestyle medicine is about trying to turn the leaking tap off.

Read more
🔗https://bhma.org/lifestyle-medicine/

11/02/2024

Fantastic to see some coverage of Osteopathy in the news, and great advice written in the article.

The more people that know about Osteopathy, the more people that can be helped!

Back injuries are extremely common, yet often misunderstood. Here are the simple steps you can take to avoid discomfort, from exercising your core to getting a good night’s sleep

09/02/2024

We CAN reduce our risk of Alzheimers by:-

Keeping active, getting our heart working

Getting good quality sleep

Continuing to learn new things/skills throughout later life

Staying connected with friends, family and other other social activities on a regular basis

We must stop treating Alzheimers as 'just something you get as you age' - if we look after ourselves better, we can protect ourselves better

See the link attached for more detail!

https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/brain-health/think-brain-health/?utm_campaign=tbh&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_content=WellnessNew&fbclid=IwAR1uIPRJWD0aLJDZEKiSl-3WNXbHQooSuXlBH2y9K_4hwIsW4xbPZFDmdeA

Think Brain Health is an ongoing celebration of everything our amazing brains do for us and a guide to the simple things we can do to protect them in return.

07/02/2024

For a fantastic source of information on numerous topics relating to health and wellbeing, I'd thoroughly recommend Dr Rangan Chatterjee's website.
His PODCASTS include guests from a range of (medical and non medical) backgrounds, that are highly knowledgeable in their field, and present sound, up to date evidence based information, along with lots of self help tips and advice that you can put into practice straight away!

Every patient is unique. I advocate for personalised medicine specific to the individual. However, I believe lifestyle and nutrition are always the bedrock upon which all chronic medical management should be founded.

03/02/2024

Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, according to a new study. Spending more than an hour in the weight room did not yield any additional benefit, the researchers found. The results show benefits of strength training are....