Mark Perren-Jones
I decided to ask many of my clients when they thought was the most important time to stretch if they only had enough time to do stretching either before their exercise/activity or after. Which would be better? Would stretching before decrease their risk of injury? Or after? Read on, you are going to be [...]
Mark Perren-Jones from The Haven Spa and health Clinic
These exercises are for the majority of people who suffer from lower back pain. This includes those of you who suffer from disc pain, disc herniations, disc bulges and sciatica. You are generally worse when you are sitting at the computer, driving, bending forwards, working in [...]
Mark Perren-Jones from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic
Okay here we go. You should already know by now that to be pain free it is imperative that you sit, stand and do your daily activities with proper posture. That is, not pushing your chin/head forward. In other words sitting up straight and standing tall [...]
Mark Perren-Jones from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic
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From a standing position place one foot back behind you in a comfortably wide stance. Make sure you keep the back foot facing forward, do not let it turn out. You may have to [...]
Mark Perren-Jones from the Haven Spa and Clinic
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stand upright and put your right hand behind your back trying to touch your left buttock
Tilt your head to the left trying to touch your left ear to your left shoulder. keep your head straight( you may want to do this in front to a [...]
Mark Perren-Jones from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic
You probably know of many ways to stretch your hamstrings but do you know how to do them without causing damage to your lower back.
As we talked about before in the lower back exercises, bending forwards will put excess stress on your discs so you don’t [...]
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Stand facing a wall and place your hand on the wall with your elbow about shoulder height
Now turn your body and feet away from the wall feeling a stretch through the front [...]
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Stand in a doorway and place your forearm on the wall with your elbow about head height(the arm from the shoulder to the elbow will now be at a 45 degree angle rather than horizontal)
Place one [...]
Mark Perren-Jones from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic
Here is a great neck pain exercise to help you if you have to work at the computer. Obviously, as we have spoken about before in neck pain exercise secrets you will need to maintain proper posture at all times but this will also be a wonderful [...]