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Lucks Yard Clinic

The chiropractic clinic that helps you keep going …

The chiropractic clinic
that helps you keep going …

Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis in the UK.  The main symptoms of osteoarthritis are pain and stiffness in your joints, which can alter mobility in affected joints and make it difficult to do certain activities. Symptoms: Symptoms may not be present all the time and can come and go in episodes depending [...]

How to avoid holiday pain

We hope to come back from our annual holidays feeling relaxed and rested and ready to take on new challenges. But the reality is sometime the opposite!   The stress of organising a holiday along with packing and getting to your destination is enough to cause tension in the neck and back and induce headaches. Long [...]

More reasons to eat your 5+ daily

There is an abundance of lovely seasonal fruits and vegetables in the shops so there are no excuses not to be getting our 5+ a day. A new study that followed more than 100,000 Danish people has found that a high intake of Vitamin C may be linked to reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and [...]

Gym exercise improves lower back pain

Research from the US suggests that more than 80% of adults have suffered with lower back pain at some point. We now live more sedentary lives with many people – at all ages - spending too much time sitting at a desk or hunched over a computer keyboard. Although there are many causes of lower [...]

Coeliac Awareness Week

Its Coeliac Awareness week from 11-17th May and Coeliac UK wants to reach the half a million people living in the UK with undiagnosed coeliac disease in the UK. Their aim is to halve the length of time to confirm a diagnosis, which is currently on average, 13 years, and reduce misdiagnosis of IBS by [...]

Stand up, sit less and move more

Active Working is a Community Interest Company whose aim is to reduce excessive and prolonged sitting in the workplace. They run the Get Britain Standing campaign to increase awareness and understanding of the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle especially long periods of sitting at work. Research has shown that the more you sit at work or [...]

How to cope with exam stress

To help you get the most out of the last few weeks of revising time, we have put together this blog to help you on your way to exam success! Water/hydration Food/nutrition Sleep Study Posture Exercise/breaks Study technique Mental attitude “Ice cream time”- rest and recuperation for body and brain Water/hydration The brain needs water [...]

PPQM and CMQM

PPQM and CMQM We are delighted to announce that Luck's Yard Clinic has been awarded the PPQM and CMQM quality mark awards from the Royal College of Chiropractors for the third time in a row. The awards are given to clinics that demonstrate excellence in meeting patient expectations in a range of areas including accessibility, [...]

Vitamin C and exercise

A study published in Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology has found that Vitamin C reduced constriction of the airways (bronchoconstriction) resulting in coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath caused by exercise. Physical activity increases oxidative stress when your body reacts with oxygen and as a consequence highly reactive molecules are produced known as free radicals.  [...]

Strong bones and superfoods

Research published by Surrey University shows that eating a diet rich in potassium is bone protective and may prevent osteoporosis. The study published in Osteoporosis International showed that potassium salts reduce bone resorption – the process that causes bone to break down – thereby increasing bone strength. It was also found that excretion of calcium [...]

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