New Years Resolution Tips and Advice (Better Late than Never)
We know you're all probably well into your new year resolutions by now, or have totally given up on them, whether that is exercising more, changing your diet or attempting to change your behaviour in general. So here at West 12 Health we have come up with a few tips and reminders to help you along with your endeavours. Fad and Instant Weight Loss Diets Does dieting really work? Well, we would all like to think so. The scale says you're losing weight, but what is that weight actually made up of? No doubt you have seen the countless advertisements of diets mentioning 'rapid' or 'instant' weight loss. There is a huge market out there for slimming products, from shakes and snacks to gums and ketones. The problem is that they are not sustainable in the long t
Healing Processes After Injury – Part 1
As you can probably imagine, we at the West 12 Health Centre have nothing better to do with our time than read, research and post content for those of you reading this (Kidding! Ok, maybe not totally). This post is going to address healing - the healing of injuries, more specifically musculoskeletal injuries eg muscles, ligaments and tendons. Before we begin though, we must stress that the timelines given for the healing of the tissues are rough guidelines that most people will fall into. Healing is a huge topic and is dependent on many, many factors that will vary from one person to the next. Generally, the fitter and healthier one is both MENTALLY and physically, the faster and more potential one has to recover. Generally, when visiting a manual therapist (chiropractor, m