by Sally Wragg | Feb 12, 2021 | Pain
I had to share this with you, so I’ll give the background story as short as possible. This is my mum, she’s 71 (72 in March) and in 2000 she had an operation and she awoke not being able to feel her left leg at all. She hadn’t had an epidural, during the op they...
by Bev Porrino | Nov 30, 2020 | Dysfunction, Muscular-skeletal, Pain
Segun called me to ask if I could help him with his back pain. He’s studying an engineering degree and all of his lectures are online and he’s having a flare-up from a past injury. I book him in for the next appointment which is a week away. I talk him...
by Grant McLullich | Oct 26, 2020 | Pain, Stress
I have been treating someone who came to see me about hip pain when running. Running was supposed to be her escape from some stress in her personal life. Somewhere along the line, it began to dominate her running too. This is the message she sent me. Her story in her...
by Emilie Hadida | Oct 13, 2020 | Life, Mind, Pain
This story has been shared with my clients for the last 5-6 years but somehow it has taken me forever to put down on paper for you all to read. The reason: vulnerability. Mostly because I know Doug will read it and he was the first person that I ever felt knew the...
by Grant McLullich | Sep 24, 2020 | Life, Pain
*******email from a client who wanted to share but remain anonymous******* Not really sure where to start…….. I have been unwittingly cultivating my cocoon for some time. I lost all of my hair very suddenly 7 years ago. It affected me, of course, it did, but I just...
by Ronnie Rasmussen | Sep 16, 2020 | Body, Life, Pain
My story starts eight years before my first BeActivated course. I was a soldier and relatively strong, but my back kept giving me problems and it only got worse and worse. Eventually I was scanned and had two disc protrusion in my lower back. After the scan, I...