Stefan Becker is an Australian-trained Best Chiropractor in Barcelona with 27 years of experience, who specialises in gentle, comfortable techniques.
Upper Lumbar Pain On One Side Flank pain at the side of the lower back always needs to be checked out carefully by a professional to see if it’s kidney related. But in many cases it’s actually a pain that comes from the lower back. Certain positions can overstretch muscles on the side of the…
Fix Heel Pain (& Foot Arch Pain) If you get heel pain (or foot arch pain), particularly during the first steps of the morning, it’s likely that you have Plantar Fasciitis. It can be very difficult to get rid of, so the sooner you start with these exercises the better. The plantar fascia is a…
Release A Locked Neck The top part of the neck is where most of the rotation occurs. But if the joints between the top two vertebrae get jammed, it can feel like your neck is locked. You might know it as a “cricked neck” or a “kinked neck”. It can feel impossible to turn your…
The 15 Point Ergonomic Checklist This is how to set up your workspace properly: 1. Sit right back in your chair so that your back rest supports your pelvis at belt level 2. Chair size: If your chair touches the back of your knees, the chair is too big for you. 3. If your chair can’t slid…
Percussion massage guns are quick way to release knotted shoulders Percusssion massage guns are a great way to release tight knotted shoulder because they relax muscles and the vibration can help to loosen restricted spinal joints. But they can increase inflammation so they are not a good idea in every case. And there are some…
How can a percussion massage gun help an inflamed AC joint? If your AC (acromio-clavicular) joint is constantly bothering you there is normally two things at play… (i)Poor thoracic and shoulder posture can increase the forward tilt of you shoulder blade, causing torsion on the AC joint, or (ii) if your SC (Sterno-clavicular) joint is…
Golfer’s Elbow Exercises (Medial Epicondylitis) Golfer’s elbow causes pain and tightness on the inside of the elbow. It’s the result of inflammation of the flexor tendon where it attaches to the medial epicondyle. Sometimes it causes grip pain or hand weakness, and occasionally numbness/tingling into the little finger and ring finger. If the pain is…
Avoid Trigger Points In Your Shoulders With These 4 Changes The key to fix chronic muscle knots at the base of your neck is to avoid the four causes of static tension in the shoulder muscles. You see, muscles like to be constantly moving—stretching and contracting. But when they’re tense but not moving, they give…
Use gravity to HELP your posture It’s the weight of our head, under gravity, that pulls our head forward and creates our terrible forward head posture. But if we move things around we can actually get gravity working for us… making lying in bed on a Sunday morning suddenly quite proactive. One great exercises…
How To Fix Chronic Acromioclavicular Joint Pain The key to fixing an inflamed, painful acromioclavicular (AC) joint involves two things: improving the position and movement of the shoulder blade movement and releasing the sternoclavicular (SC) joint. If the shoulder blade sits in a poor position it causes torsion and stress on the AC joint. The…
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