Coast Chiropractic

read moreWould you like to restore your health, increase your vitality and create harmony in your life? Anne French, Chiropractor & a Functional Medicine Practitioner, opened Coast Clinic, located in Brighton and Hove (Hove actually), to help you suceed in doing just that! It is Anne's passion to help you. Whether you just want to get rid of all those niggling pains that reduce the quality of life as a result of Chiropractic treatment. Or perhaps you would like to restore your health; discover the vitality you thought you had lost forever and require advise on how to create the hamony you are craving in your life by following a Functional Medicine programme.

read moreAnne completed her Chiropractic education at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth. Anne also completed her post-graduate Functional Medicine training with The Institute of Functional Medicine. She has over 19 years' experience of clinical practice and is just as passionate about providing excellent health care to her patients now as when she first graduated. Anne was introduced to Chiropractic after a severe road traffic accident while living in Canada. Being British she had not heard of the many benefits of Chiropractic as at that time Chiropractic was not well known in Britain.

read moreChiropractic manual therapies, best known for relieving lower back pain, however, most Chiropractors will treat the whole body, back, neck and limbs. A Chiropractor appears to concentrate on spinal joint function but really we are fascinated with the spine because there are 31 pairs of nerves that exit each side of the spine, which innervate muscles, ligaments and skin. These same nerve roots also innervate organs and glands. When the spine or any joint in the body is not functioning correctly it can cause inflammation and back pain due to disturbed nerve function.

read moreA while ago I wrote a blog on Upper Cross Syndrome, complete with exercise videos on how to counter it. I said at the time that I would also write one for Lower Cross Syndrome to improve poor posture - and finally - here it is! I don't want to repeat the same information so I suggest you look at the first blog here to get the full explanation as it's good to understand why you are doing something, that way you are more likely to do it. The same rules apply - you need to stretch the hypertonic (tight) muscles first before you do the exercises to strengthen the hypotonic (weak) muscles.