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16/09/2025

Chronic neck pain affecting your daily life? You're not alone! Learn how strengthening your neck muscles can not only reduce pain but also improve your overall posture and alignment. Dive into simple tips and effective exercises that can bring comfort back to your life. 🧘‍♂️ Check out our latest blog post to start your journey to pain-free days.

19/06/2025

Discover how to manage slipped discs effectively and improve your quality of life! Understand the hidden impacts, symptoms, and the best strategies for dealing with this common back issue.

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Slipped discs, or herniated discs, are often misunderstood conditions that can lead to significant back pain and discomfort. They affect millions of people every year, with studies suggesting that up to 30% of adults will experience some form of back pain related to a herniated disc at some point in...

29/04/2025

Did you know that the curvature of your cervical spine can significantly impact your overall health and well-being? Discover how maintaining the right posture can help you lead a healthier life! Learn more: https://wix.to/M8XH9kI

The health of our spine is crucial to our overall well-being, and this is especially true for the cervical spine. Consisting of the first seven vertebrae in our neck, the cervical spine supports the head, protects the spinal cord, and allows for a wide range of movement. One key aspect of maintainin...

09/07/2024

02/07/2024

Cervical Alignment and Neck Pain: Why its important to get your alignment fixed!

Study: “The Impact of Cervical Spine Alignment on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain”

Authors: Harrison, D. E., Cailliet, R., Betz, J. W., et al. Journal: Spine, 2017

Summary: This study assessed the relationship between cervical spine alignment and chronic neck pain. It concluded that correcting cervical alignment significantly reduces neck pain and disability scores.

Findings: Patients who underwent treatments to correct cervical alignment experienced a notable reduction in pain and functional disability.

Maintaining cervical spinal alignment through exercises and proper ergonomics is essential for preventing pain and enhancing quality of life.

06/06/2024

Exercise without exercising?

Have you heard of the term NEAT? It stands for non-exercises activity thermogenesis.

What is it? is the energy expended for everything we do that is not sleeping, eating or sports-like exercise. It ranges from the energy expended walking to work, typing, performing housework work, taking the stairs to the office and fidgeting. The amount of NEAT that human subjects perform represents the product of the amount and types of physical activities and the thermogenic cost of each activity

The factors that impact a human’s NEAT are readily divisible into environmental factors, such as occupation or dwelling within a “concrete jungle,” and biological factors such as weight, gender, and body composition.

Now that most of us are stuck behind a computer all day, our NEAT is decreased; hence the best ways to help with this is through increasing the activity throughout the day!

Stand up at work

Walk/ride bike to work

Take the stairs instead of the lift

Take more breaks to fill up your water

Take a small walk during your lunch break

06/06/2024

Another success story!

4 months of using the Neck Tuner, Neck Bridge & Some foam rolling

No more pain, headaches and numbness down his hands!

06/05/2024

Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep!

1. Stick to a sleep schedule

2. Exercise is great, but not too late in the day. Try to exercise at least thirty minutes on most days but not later than two to three hours before your bedtime.

3. Avoid caffeine after 2-3pm.

4. Avoid alcoholic drinks before bed.

5. Avoid large meals and beverages late at night.

6. If possible, avoid medicines that delay or disrupt your sleep.

7. Don’t take naps after 3 p.m.

8. Relax before bed. Don’t over schedule your day so that no time is left for unwinding. A relaxing activity, such as reading or listening to music, should be part of your bedtime ritual.

9. Have a comfortable pillow, mattress and blankets.

10. Take a hot bath before bed.

11. Dark bedroom, cool bedroom, gadget-free bedroom.

12. Daylight is key to regulating daily sleep patterns. Try to get outside in natural sunlight for at least thirty minutes each day. If possible, wake up with the sun or use very bright lights in the morning.

02/04/2024

5 Pillars of Health: Sleep

Sleep is one the 5 pillars of health, but most people don’t get enough of it especially in their adult lives. Throughout developed nations, most adults currently sleep in a monophasic pattern—that is, we try to take a long, single bout of slumber at night, the average duration of which is now less than seven hours.

Everyone knows sleep is important and that you need roughly 7-8hours for a good night sleep. It is gateway for recovery and resetting your body to function properly for the next day. Not enough sleep you feel tired and groggy, but why?

A recent study published in October 2013 found out that on a molecular level, sleep is designed to cleanse the brain. They summarized that “the restorative nature of sleep appears to be the result of active clearance of the by-products of neural activity that accumulate during wakefulness”. Therefore it removes potential harmful toxins in and around the brain, including the fluid around the brain called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Hence this is a reason why you feel groggy with lack of sleep, as there is an over accumulation of these neuro-toxins within the brain and CSF!

Throughout developed nations, most adults currently sleep in a monophasic pattern—that is, we try to take a long, single bout of slumber at night, the average duration of which is now less than seven hours. From this remarkable study is this fact: when we are cleaved from the innate practice of biphasic sleep, our lives are shortened. It is perhaps unsurprising that in the small enclaves of Greece where siestas still remain intact, such as the island of Ikaria, men are nearly four times as likely to reach the age of ninety as American male.

The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span. Here’s 10 benefits of getting 7-9 hours of sleep a day:

Improved Mood
Improved Energy Levels
Healthy Heart
Regulated blood sugars
Improved mental function
Improved immune system
Athletic performance
Reduced stress
Maintaining healthy weight
Improved memory

Sleep is the most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day.