Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) affects up to 5% of the UK population, according to the NHS. We would guess that's slightly higher in London. Obviously anxiety at times of stress is completely normal, but GAD is more like a constant worry that can seriously affect the lives of sufferers. It’s a long-term condition and usually […]

Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is the general term for the pain caused by repetitive movement and overuse of muscles and tendons. It’s always associated with work, and people whose jobs involve long periods of repetitive movement, like factory/production line workers and – more commonly in London – typists and people using keyboards for extended periods. […]

So the August bank holiday is upon us, you’re just back to London from holidays and yet somehow jet lag has undone all that relaxation… To make matters worse, you thought you could maximise your time on the beach by landing from the long haul flight and heading straight to the office! Jet lag is […]

The sight of Michael Phelps hauling in swimming gold medals while covered in marks from ‘cupping therapy’ has generated a couple of enquiries asking if we “do this kind of massage”. We don’t – it’s a Chinese medicine technique not a Thai massage technique. But it got us curious: we didn’t know how it worked, […]

Walking into just about any massage clinic in Thailand you will see many elements of herbal healing: rows of jars, herbs, balms and compresses. An interesting way in which Thai massage and herbal medicine overlap is in the practice of herbal compress massage. In a herbal compress massage the herbal compresses are heated in a […]