Hip pain isn’t always what you think
As a chiropractor, most of the problems we see revolve around problems with the low back. This is partly because that’s what chiropractors are best known for and because low back pain is the most common health problem in the UK. However, today I want to discuss hip pain because it is something that is […]
Walk more!
Every few weeks, a health or fitness magazine seems to discover the next miracle workout. One month it’s HIIT, the next it’s Pilates, cold-water swimming or strength training. Yet if those magazines were completely honest, they’d probably recommend the same thing every issue…walk more! It may not be glamorous, but walking remains one of the […]
Wonderfully Asymmetrical
Regular readers know I spend as much time dispelling myths in my day-to-day practice as I do actually treating the patients. Today I’ve chosen to write about something I think explains the way patients and clinicians think about musculoskeletal pain. That is, the deviation away from the supposed ‘perfect’ posture of our physical shape. What […]
How treatment really works
‘What are you actually doing when you treat me?’ ’How does it work?’ These are two very common questions that I get when I treat patients for the first time. They’re very reasonable questions. A clinician is applying manual force to your back to help reduce your pain so it’s normal to want to know […]
Weighty matters
Exercise is the number one treatment for long term low back pain – bar none. The NICE Guidelines make recommendations on all treatments for every health condition that you can think of. Every treatment for low back pain is only recommended to be used alongside exercise. This means that if you’re trying to recover from […]
Just walk!
Every time a health and fitness magazine publishes a new issue they seem to come up with a new “best” form of exercise for their readers. In fact, if they were being completely honest with you, they would continue to recommend the same things every week – although that probably wouldn’t sell many issues! They […]
How sleep might be affecting your back pain
Have you ever wondered whether your sleep could be linked to your back pain? A lot of my patients have made connections between the two but often worry about the wrong thing. A lot of patients either go to a lot of effort to sleep in a position they find uncomfortable, but someone has told […]
As featured in Later In Life
As featured in the Later in Life publication by the EDP, Rob Bailey explains safe, clinically informed strategies to help gardeners manage back pain, reduce strain and continue enjoying outdoor activity without aggravating existing spinal issues. Read the full article on pages 4 and 5 here Download PDF
New Year, New You
I thought I would kick off 2026 with some real, practical advice. Many of us like to start the new year with new health goals. Not because we couldn’t have achieved them in 2025, but because a new year can be the kickstart we need to finally start working towards goals we’ve been putting off. […]
Clouds not Clocks
Low back pain is much more like clouds than like clocks. I imagine that you probably had to read that sentence twice because it’s a bit of an odd thing to say. Generally speaking, clocks and clouds couldn’t be more different, but that’s exactly the point. Something I’ve always found so frustrating is that despite the wealth of scientific research available, many therapists continue to […]