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When the weather turns icy or wet, sports injury prevention becomes essential — especially for runners, walkers, and those training outdoors. As winter sets in, slippery conditions become a common challenge for athletes. Whether it’s frost-covered grass, rain-soaked...

Whether you're training for a race or jogging for fitness, our expert running injury treatment in Higham Ferrers helps you recover and run pain-free. Running injuries can be frustrating setbacks for you when you’re eager to get back to training or simply to enjoy the...

If you’ve experienced sudden dizziness or balance issues, our Epley Manoeuvre service near Rushden could offer fast, effective relief for positional vertigo. If you’ve ever been hit with sudden dizziness or a spinning sensation when moving your head, you could be...

If your back aches after standing still for long periods, our expert team in Higham Ferrers explains the causes and offers effective solutions to reduce pain and improve posture. We all know that standing still is bad for us and can cause back pain, but how do you...

Flip flops may feel convenient in warm weather, but their impact on foot health could lead to pain or injury if worn too often — especially without support. After all the rain we’ve had it might seem unlikely that the sun will ever shine again. Hopefully it will peek...

Gardening is a great way to stay active, but without care, it can lead to back strain, knee pain, or other issues — making gardening injury prevention essential.   Preventing Common Gardening Injuries: Simple Tips for Safer Gardening Many people imagine gardening as a...

If you've pulled a muscle during exercise, work, or daily activities, our personalised muscle strain treatment in Higham Ferrers and Rushden can help speed up recovery. Muscles get strained when they are over stretched. Sometimes the injury involves more than one...

Whether from a sprain, sports injury, or overuse, our ligament injury treatment in Higham Ferrers and Rushden can help restore stability and reduce pain. Ligaments hold joints together. You’ll find them around every joint – knee, ankle, hip, elbow, even your jaw joint...

At Ashgrove Health Clinic in Higham Ferrers, we use K-Laser therapy to speed up healing, relieve pain, and support recovery from both acute and chronic conditions. The science: Laser therapy uses selected wavelengths of light to stimulate key molecules in human...

Jay Sheridan is a highly experienced sports therapist in Higham Ferrers, helping clients reduce pain, recover from injury, and return to peak performance. Meet Jay Sheridan – Sports Therapist, DJ, and All-Round Talent There’s more to our sports therapist in Higham...

Not every injury happens on a sports field — and at Ashgrove Health Clinic, we’ve seen (and treated) our fair share of unusual injuries with expert, effective care. Strange But True: Unusual Injuries We’ve Treated (And Why the Cause Doesn’t Matter) At Ashgrove Health...

Feeling Fine We want you to leave the clinic feeling fine.  Actually, we’d like you to leave feeling Wow, but sometimes that takes longer.  Our first aim is that you feel fine. Why the distinction?  Well, we can’t always make the pain disappear in one session, but in...

Exercises Have you been told to do exercises?  Do you do them?  Are we nuts to ask that question?! Some years ago Claire and Steven organised for an internationally famous osteopath to come to Knuston Hall to teach us that stretching doesn’t work!   I’m not going to...

D is for Dogs We’re just sorting out our favourite photos of Leo Potamus, Badger the Dog and Max, our clinic black Labradors.  Once we’ve got the best ones we’ll post them here. Warning – there might be quite a lot of them!!!

  Cupping If you’ve not seen the photos of Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Phelps with their cupping marks you need to see them.  They look like they’ve been kissed by an octopus! Sharon, our acupuncturist, uses this type of cupping, but she also uses a technique...

  Back Pain Osteopaths are best known for their treatment of back pain (though we do also do heads, shoulders, knees and toes – seriously!) So what causes back pain? There isn’t a quick answer to this question.  Many problems, pathologies and injuries can cause...

Acupuncture Acupuncture is a weird one, isn’t it.  Who on Earth came up with the idea of poking pins into someone to help them feel better?  But it works and there’s research to prove it. And it’s not just for pain relief. The theory is that acupuncture improves your...