Hello! I recommend that you look at my site www.WatersofHealth.com for information on a Japanese technology which changes the chemical structure of tap water, giving it properties that are very beneficial for health. It had been in use in hospitals there for the last 35 years. Dr. Otto Warburg, who won the Nobel prize in 1931 and 1944, found that ...

Hello Moyra A baker's cyst is an excess (effusion) of the fluid that usually lubricates your knee joint.  If the joint gets irritated for any reason - arthritis, an injury etc - extra fluid is produced that makes it feel stiff, swollen and often hot.  If too much fluid builds up in the delicate membrane that surrounds the ...

My word, this has really stirrred up a hornet's nest!  Sharron is probably well off out of it, and I am sure we all hope she has made a full recovery now.  I do take issue with the tendency of the mainstream medical profession to make morbid predictions, I have read the leaflet by the Arthritis Reseach council which says that ...

Hello Sharon.  I'm an osteopath based in Essex and I treat a lot of frozen shoulders.  See my website - www.fit4living.co.uk  It's important to make sure that's really what you've got - most GPs don't know how to diagnose them unless they're also an orthopaedic or musculoskeletal specialist.  ...

Hi again.  One reader above sggests that your lumps may be blocked sweat glands, but your initial post says that the lumps have a thread-like feel which strongly suggests that lymph ducts joining one lymph node to the next are enlarged.  You wouldn't get that with a blocked sweat duct. If yoyu haven't done so yet, I would again ...

Hi Claire I understand that as a fellow wddty subscriber you are cautious about the excesses of mainstream medicine, but as an osteopath I would strongly advise anyone with skin changes over an enlarged lymph node to see their gp with the utmost urgency;  I would also phone the gp and advise him or her of my concerns (with the ...

As several others have said above, osteopathy - the most popular form of alternative / complementary treatment in the UK - is excellent for back problems.  It takes 4 years full time study (6 years part time) to train.  Different osteopaths use different forms of treatment, from the very gentle cranial approach to the clunk-click ...

Hi - lots of interesting stuff here!  As an osteopath, I believe that good circulation is vital to health.  I give the following exercise to all my patients that suffer ankle swelling / oedema, lower leg discolouration and those about to go on long flights or car / coach journies.  You can do them in the office too, as you don't ...

If the lump is near the base of your little and /or ring finger, it may be Dupuytren's contracture.  This causes a puckered appearance around the palm fold and a lumpy feel which isn't usually tender.  As it progresses it causes the little and ring fingers to curl towards the palm.  It can also affect the feet, and ...

Sue, I experienced panic attacks when I had put my back out, but didn't realise I had - I felt stiff, tired and wrong, but not particularly in pain. A friend recommended chiropractic treatment and the x-rays confirmed what the chiropracter could feel. I responded amazingly quickly to treatment. Now I recognise when it is out and get it ...