Pain is crucial to realising what is good for your overall health. Pain is an unpleasant experience that helps to keep you alive by alerting to actual or potential bodily harm. It warns you when something might be wrong and gives you an opportunity to change or modify what you're doing to prevent further injury. However, pain is complex, and many other factors influence it. Much of what we used to believe about pain was from a book that was first published in 1644, pain

You’ve probably heard the terms bulging disc or herniated disc at some point, whether it involved you or someone you know. While those words can strike fear in a lot of people, it’s important to understand what they really mean, and remove the scary presumptions we have about them. Within the spine you have numerous structures, but the two I am focusing on are the vertebrae (the individual bones of the spine), and the discs (the cartilage ‘cushion’ in between each of those ve