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Panic is fear in the extreme. It creates extra stress in all muscles and nerves and consequently magnifies pain. It asks your body to pour out the adrenal chemicals, demanding fight or flight, and coils up your internal clock so tightly that you are in danger of collapse. It is necessary to find a way [...]

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a counselling technique used to treat the blocked mental states which affect us emotionally. NLP involves a therapy called Time Line which clears away years of emotional distress very quickly. The best part of this therapy is that you don’t have to go through the explanation of your circumstances to eliminate the [...]

It causes adhesions around the bowel and fallopian tubes and is a major cause of infertility. Surgery is a definite option but we prefer to handle this painful condition chiropractically by first checking the nerve supply to the area which is in the lower lumbar vertebrae. Trouble here as a teenager can allow years of [...]

When the pain settles down after an accident, however slight, it usually means that the spine has compensated for the injury by twisting away from the nerve irritation. By the time you are eventually forced to seek help, the chiropractor has two curves to fix. Firstly, the acute pain must be settled, then the compensation [...]

Hiatus hernia is a weakness in that part of the diaphragm where the gullet passes through. It is very tiring and often painful. Regurgitation of acid burns when you want to lie down. Gas gets caught in the upper bowel and causes flatulence. Loads of antacid mixtures are often taken in an effort to relieve [...]

Focusing Normally our eyes work well, bringing an image of what we’re looking at into crisp focus on the retina at the back of the eye. Objects at different distances have to be brought into focus differently, and the way the eye changes its focus is by altering the shape of the lens inside it. [...]

As well as damage from concussion, the brain can also be injured without receiving a blow. Internal damage can occur through pressure; for example, from a sub-arachnoid haemorrhage, from a stroke, from hydrocephalus, and tumours. The non-specific injury the brain receives from these can also cause post-traumatic headaches, a term which includes headaches both from [...]

As we discussed earlier, there is a second type of stroke-like event: Transient Ischaemic Attacks (TIAs). These are exactly what they seem. Transient, meaning they don’t last long; ischaemic, meaning the blood supply has been cut off; attacks, meaning episodes. In other words, TIAs are like repeated strokes, which then go away after a matter [...]

The secret is to nip the disease in the bud. As soon as the diagnosis is made your doctor will probably prescribe some anti-viral ointments to put on new lesions as they form, and anti-viral tablets to take by mouth. Only small quantities of ointments will be prescribed because they are immensely expensive to manufacture. [...]

Diagnosis of tension headache is usually quite simple. The treatment is also simple – in principle, at least. Take exercise, learn to relax, and regularly put these two things into practice. Typically, tension headaches don’t respond well to simple painkillers – not because they are a particularly severe or dangerous type of headache, or because [...]