A top UK Acupuncturist Promotes 'Back Awareness Week' 17-23 October
Tim Colman, one of the UK’s leading Acupuncturists’ spoke out today in support of National Back Awareness Week and against the tendency of sufferers to depend upon quick fix pain-killers, branding them “Disempowerment of the worst possible kind.”
Kingsbury, London (PRWEB) October 14, 2005
Tim Colman, one of the UK’s leading Acupuncturists’ spoke out today in support of National Back Awareness Week and against the tendency of sufferers to depend upon quick fix pain-killers, branding them “Disempowerment of the worst possible kind.”
The statement comes after BackCare – the charity for Healthier Backs, which is organising the annual national health awareness campaign, announced that 40% of adults will experience back pain sometime in the next 12 months.
Tim, who is skilled in treating both adults and children, stated his dismay when reading recent studies from France that record 80% of children having back pain in the last year. “If adults choose not to manage or look after their back, that’s one thing, but children need to be educated, to manage their health, not to ignore it.”
Tim states, “The current protocol on back care disempowers the patient, focusing upon pain killers, returning to work as soon as possible and manipulation if required. However, where is the education?
The main part of the problem is information and awareness, typically back pain is controllable, if not preventable.
We all need to be educated into taking control of our day to day health, I still regularly get clients who are being told by their GPs to take bed rest, but this may serve only to exacerbate the problem!
Time and again I find that clients have suffered for too long, without realising that control is actually in their own hands. This is why I whole heartedly endorse Back Awareness Week, and am supplying a free booklet to anyone who wants it.”
"Acupuncture is not new, its not even new age, its’ ancient medicine. We have lost the connectivity we once had to ourselves, each other and indeed to nature. If we have a chronic pain, surely ones first response should not be to pretend its not there by taking pain killers - which if they do work, often have side effects, and serve to only worsen the condition of the back, by ignoring its pain alarm”.
“Instead we could empower ourselves with education: gentle adjustments in lifestyle, posture, and few easy exercises alongside using specific acupuncture points with acupressure can often change a clients life beyond belief”.
Note to Editor: Tim is preparing a free booklet on Back Care support, structured into a simple but empowering acupressure programme. Using specific Acupuncture points, his goal is to provide powerful, rapid and long-term relief. Any and all requests should be made by sending S. A.E to the above address.
Tim is available for further comment or interview on the above numbers.
Biography
Tim Colman is a well established Acupuncturist working in private practice in North London, he is trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Five Elemental, and Auricular (ear) Acupuncture.
Tim is a member of the British Acupuncture Council.
Tim works at Champneys, at their headquarters at Tring as their Head Acupuncturist, Typically working with musculo-skeletal conditions, weight issues and anxiety and depression.
Tim also works closely with leading UK Health and Fitness expert Dax Moy at his Islington studios where he leads Dax’s complementary health team.
Contact:
Tim Colman
51 Goldsmith Lane
Kingsbury
London NW9 9AJ
Tel: 0208 204 9038
Mob: 0795 806 B3111
Email: timcolman@hotmail. com
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