by Fionnuala Murphy | Mar 18, 2019
Do you feel like you sleep well every night? Most of us these days don’t get enough sleep, and it’s more important for our health than we realise. Matthew Walker’s recent book “Why we Sleep”* makes very interesting bedtime reading. He points out that it is a...
by Fionnuala Murphy | May 25, 2018
Protect and check your skin to prevent one of the most common cancers. In the UK, 100,000 new cases of skin cancer are detected each year, with more than 2,500 people dying annually. The occurrence of the most fatal of skin cancers, malignant melanoma, is rising...
by Fionnuala Murphy | May 3, 2018
In a recent series of papers published in the scientific medical journal The Lancet a team of international researchers examined the evidence for all kinds of treatment for back pain to establish which are the best and most effective. This has been widely reported in...
by Fionnuala Murphy | Feb 2, 2018
What is Osteopathy? It’s a funny word. Many people don’t really know what it means (and it’s not easy to spell either). The “osteo” part means something to do with bones – like in osteoarthritis or osteoporosis. The...
by Fionnuala Murphy | Jan 16, 2018
Nine things Osteopaths do that the NHS doesn’t. NHS staff are skilled and dedicated people who work very hard on behalf of patients and do a brilliant job but unfortunately, the NHS is such a big complex organisation and is so overstretched that they can’t do...
by Fionnuala Murphy | Dec 5, 2017
Why does research into Osteopathy matter? Research matters because these days research is applied to all medical treatments to ensure that they are effective. The old “snake oil” cures are a thing of the past. Nowadays we have what’s called...
by Fionnuala Murphy | Sep 27, 2017
National Fitness Day is in the news this week, not long after the news was full of exhortations to exercise more by walking. Even a brisk ten minutes walk can have more benefit than you realise. Walking is the simplest exercise you can do, you don’t need lessons...
by Fionnuala Murphy | Aug 14, 2017
This is a question we get asked all the time! Unfortunately, people often don’t know what an Osteopath really is, and therefore don’t know when osteopathic treatment could be exactly what they need. So here’s my best answer to the question:...
by Fionnuala Murphy | Jul 19, 2017
Has Osteopathy helped you? Do you value your local Osteopath? Do you have a positive experience to share?#OsteopathyWorks is a national campaign to raise awareness about how Osteopaths can help people of all ages improve their health by asking you to tell us all about...
by Fionnuala Murphy | Jul 12, 2017
People put up with back pain for many reasons – because they believe you have to “just get on with it”, or because someone in a white coat told them “you have to learn to live with it”, or because they have tried but not found any...
