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Clinical Massage, Exercise Rehabilitation and Lifestyle Management with Nicki Wood Nicki has worked in the fitness industry for over 10 years as a Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach. She also practises Clinical Massage and Corrective Exercise techniques, to aid injury recovery. Nicki has a passion for helping people to enjoy life, as their fittest and […]

What EXACTLY is HYPNOTHERAPY? Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of relaxation, which happens when we switch off from the busy outside world to rest comfortably within our much quieter and more peaceful inner world. This can be described as entering an altered state of awareness. Trance and hypnosis mean the same thing – to drift […]

A surprising number of patients come to see us saying things like “I am simply broken” or “it’s what I should expect at my age I suppose” or “my back is really weak”. The question is, is this Really true? Sometimes Mr Google will have led them to this belief or it could have been […]

Osteoporosis- the silent disease Often the first time people realise they have osteoporosis is after they sustain a fall. In 2010 across the EU, more than 43,000 deaths related to fractures. Although more common in women, 1 in 5 men in the UK over the age of 50, break a bone due to low bone […]

How to Walk a Buggy not Push a Buggy, by Broadwater Osteopaths, Worthing This may seem a bit of an odd post, but we see many patients in clinic who suffer with Buggy or Wheelchair related aches and niggles. These niggles vary from painful wrists and arms to low back pain and neck and shoulder […]

Simple tips on increasing energy. Many patients who come to see us in practice often report having low energy. There are many reasons for this including pain, lack of sleep, poor hydration, poor nutrition and stress. As a nation we are constantly bombarded with articles looking at ways to increase energy, from energy boosting tablets, […]

The benefits of breastfeeding can include the reduction of incidence of gastrointestinal infection, obesity and asthma; mothers have increased protection for pre-menopausal breast and ovarian cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, plus economic and environmental benefits. But what if you find it painful or stressful or baby is struggling to latch and suck? With the stigma surrounding […]

Spring Clean Mind, by Beverley Underwood Hypnotherapist at BOP I had cream carpets and magnolia walls in my house, just to spot the spiders. I resided in a place called dread.  One evening I scooped up what I thought was a toy car left by the kids. My hand closed and it scuttled.  I found […]

BOP is proud to announce a new arrival to the practice, Rik King. Rik is in his final year training to be a chiroporactor, but he has many years of experience in Sports Massage. An introduction to Rik follows below. He will start at BOP at the end of Febuary 2019. Appointments for Sports Massage […]

Keeping active in the office- an App for every occasion! At work and at home, many of us are sitting far too much and we are simply not meant to be inactive. Sitting too long, not only impacts on our muscles, bones and joints, it also impacts on our bodily systems like our heart, lungs […]