How stress affects your health.

Stress is a part of everyday life; it can affect our body, our thoughts, feelings, and our behaviour. It’s impossible to avoid some significant life events, bereavement, divorce, family illness, redundancy even parenthood. Stress can induce a “fight-or-flight” response in the body,  producing hormones to prepare our bodies to either take on the challenge (fight) or […]

Understanding Sciatica

Sciatica is a relatively common form pain affecting the leg; patients often misunderstand it. Medically sciatica is a set of symptoms rather than a diagnosis for what is causing the pain. Sciatica means that another spinal structure is compressing a person’s sciatic nerve.