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Lucks Yard Clinic

The chiropractic clinic that helps you keep going …

The chiropractic clinic
that helps you keep going …

3 tips to improve your posture

Tone featured in YourFitness magazine October 2014 with an article entitled 'Three easy ways to improve your stance'. Tone says: Good posture contributes to a range of health benefits as well as boosting mood. Her 3 top tips are: When standing, keep your shoulders back and not slouching.  Your body weight should feel evenly balanced [...]

Sleeping and sitting named as top triggers for back pain

Tone Tellefsen Hughes from Luck’s Yard Clinic is urging people to think about what they put their backs through during an average day, as research findings reveal that sleeping and sitting are two of the main culprits for triggering neck and back pain in the UK. More than three quarters (76%) of people surveyed in [...]

PODIATRY

The Podiatry team at Luck’s Yard Clinic are all highly experienced and can offer advice in all areas of Podiatry including biomechanical assessment. They work closely with the chiropractors and massage therapist at Luck’s Yard, to improve posture, alignment and function. Some of the most common conditions dealt with are heel, knee, back and pelvic [...]

Coconut oil and Alzheimer’s

Some interesting research about diet and Alzheimer’s disease has been published recently. A team of researchers from Holland decided to test whether adding coconut oil to the diet of 31 people with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s would benefit cognitive performance. The study was not controlled and included only a small number of participants but nevertheless, [...]

Special Stars testimonial

We came to Lucks Yard early in 2012 with our daughter Florence. She had had a rough start to life with an operation to connect her oesophagus (TOF) on day four, open heart surgery to repair a VSD and PDA at 7 months and another op to place a feeding button and nissens for an [...]

Fit kids = fit brains

Children with higher levels of physical fitness show signs of having healthier and quicker brains according to new research published in Frontiers of Human Neuroscience. Scientists looked at how aerobic fitness related to white matter fibres in the brain which allow connections between different regions of the brain and the fitter you are, the more [...]

Back Related Leg Pain

A new study published in the the Annals of Internal Medicine has reported that patients who received chiropractic care as well as doing home exercises experienced great reduction in back-related leg pain (BRLP) than those who only did the exercises. BRLP includes conditions such as sciatica, an extremely painful and often disabling conditions that results [...]

Mariana Ferencakova

Welcome back Mariana! Mariana Ferencakova has been a chiropractor since 2004. Since graduating from the Anglo European College of Chiropractic, she has practised in different chiropractic clinics throughout the South of England, gaining experience in treating many problems and working with various health care professionals. Outside work, Mariana is a busy mum to a new [...]

Light at night linked to obesity risk

Interesting but sobering new research was published recently looking into how exposing our bodies to artificial light may increase the risk of obesity. The study showed that in 100,000 women of 16 years and older this exposure resulted in obesity even when factors such as alcohol intake, physical activity and the number of hours spent [...]

Artificial sweeteners and the risk of diabetes

A new study reported in the journal Nature suggests that artificial sweeteners may increase glucose intolerance and thus the risk of developing diabetes because they affect gut bacteria. In laboratory trials scientists gave mice water to which 3 commonly used sweeteners had been added.   The mice developed glucose intolerance – a condition where blood sugar [...]

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