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Headaches & neck pain: how can osteopathy and medical acupuncture help?
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Headaches & neck pain: how can osteopathy and medical acupuncture help?

Millions experience headaches and neck pain from issues like poor posture, muscle tension, or stress. While medications offer short-term relief, osteopathy and medical acupuncture target the root causes. Osteopathy improves mobility, relieves tension, and corrects posture, while acupuncture releases trigger points, boosts circulation, and reduces stress.

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AXA Health Insurance FAQs for Osteopathy and Physiotherapy
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AXA Health Insurance FAQs for Osteopathy and Physiotherapy

Using AXA Health Insurance at Midtown Wellness: What You Need to Know

Planning to use AXA insurance for osteopathy or physiotherapy at Midtown Wellness? Your first session includes a thorough assessment to diagnose and create a tailored treatment plan. Obtain an authorization code from AXA before your visit, and ensure you have codes for all areas of concern if treating multiple issues.

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Osteopathy for Pregnant Women: Benefits and Techniques
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Osteopathy for Pregnant Women: Benefits and Techniques

Osteopathy offers a holistic approach to managing pregnancy-related discomforts. It provides relief from common issues such as back pain, pelvic pain, sciatica, and swelling. Osteopathic techniques, including gentle manipulations, soft tissue work, and postural advice, help improve circulation, ease pain, and enhance overall comfort. Osteopathy also promotes relaxation and can assist with breathing techniques for labor. Safe for most pregnant women, osteopathy can be tailored to individual needs, helping make your pregnancy journey more comfortable.

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How Osteopathy Can Help with Lower Back Pain
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How Osteopathy Can Help with Lower Back Pain

Discover how osteopathy at Midtown Wellness Covent Garden can help relieve lower back pain. Our expert osteopaths use hands-on techniques like manual manipulation, posture correction, and tailored exercises to alleviate discomfort, improve mobility, and prevent future pain. Experience a holistic approach to healing. BUPA, AXA, HEALIX, VITALITY, WPA insurances accepted

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How to set goals and pace yourself
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How to set goals and pace yourself

Living with persistent pain can limit what you feel able or willing to do.Heres a blog to help you set goals, pace yourself and manage pain flare ups.

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Enhance Your Health: Diaphragm Breathing Exercises
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Enhance Your Health: Diaphragm Breathing Exercises

Diaphragmatic breathing helps a person engage the diaphragm fully while breathing. This may provide a number of health benefits, including:

strengthening the diaphragm

improving stability in the core muscles

slowing the breathing rate

lowering heart rate and blood pressure

reducing oxygen demand

promoting relaxation

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The Triad of Health, Performance and Body Composition
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The Triad of Health, Performance and Body Composition

prioritizing energy intake to best support health in parts of the off season, performance in season, and body composition in appropriately placed points in the on and off season. Knowing what these levels are brings its own challenges, but it is an approach that may provide the necessary balance between priorities.

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The Relationship Between Inflammation and Training
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The Relationship Between Inflammation and Training

Training adaptations are a stress response. When you exercise, the body is put under stress. Training adaptations are simply the body altering so that the next time you do that exercise it doesn’t hurt quite so much!

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