One of the reasons why I do what I do now is because I lived with chronic pain in my elbows, forearms, wrists and hands for over seven years. Looking back, I think the advice and treatment I received from medical practitioners was unhelpful and ineffective. Chronic problems with these parts of the body tend…

Your feet are the foundation of your body. They support all of your weight and allow you to walk, skip, jump, run and tiptoe. To fulfil this role, they have an intricate and ingenuous design, housing a quarter of all the bones in your body, with sixty six joints, two hundred and fourteen ligaments and…

In this video you can see a short talk I gave to the London YES Group in 2015.  We only had fifteen minutes in total so I started off with a very quick and somewhat oversimplified introduction into what having good posture means, some ways to feel how in or out of balance your body…

I think there is a general perception that if some area of your body feels tight, then you should simply just stretch it out. I try to educate my clients that in some cases this might a good idea, but in others it definitely wouldn’t be, and that the key question to ask is “why…

One of the most common questions that clients in clinic ask me is how they should sit.  It sounds like the answer should be fairly simple but it’s actually not, and a number of things need to be said. First, that the key to ‘sitting up straight’ is to get your pelvis into a good…

Driving can sometimes be tough on the body. The seats tend to force you into a slouched posture and driving itself can often be stressful. All of this can make you feel a little stiff and tight in places. If you already have chronic pain somewhere in your body, then driving can be particularly uncomfortable…

In this video, Brian Bradley, Posture Specialist and Vice President of The Egoscue Method, shows you four Egoscue exercises to improve your posture. It’s ultimately your brain that controls your body alignment, but it does this with the help of your muscles. When your muscles are functioning efficiently and are in balance from left to…

For many people, work tends to require sitting down for most of the day, often at a desk in an office. When I used to have chronic lower back pain and repetitive strain injury (RSI) in my arms and hands, I focused so much on getting the ‘correct’ kind of chair, and mouse, and keyboard,…

Sitting on a long flight for hours can lead to posture imbalances, joint stiffness, muscle tightness and pain. In this short video, Pete Egoscue, Posture Correction Specialist and founder of The Egoscue Method, shows you some simples exercises to rebalance your body and help make long flights more comfortable and pain free. You can sign…

In this short video Pete Egoscue, Posture Correction Specialist and founder of The Egoscue Method, gives you some simple tips to help your baby and infant develop. You can sign up to my free newsletter to get some exercises and tips to start to improve your posture by clicking here. Take care. Ameet Bhakta BSc,…