Bodyworks Clinic is a multi-disciplinary health and medical wellness clinic based in San Pedro de Alcantara with over 15 years experience. Foot Fascination Founded by Clinical Director and Consultant Physiotherapist Estelle Mitchell in 2004, Bodyworks has always specialised in physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and treatment of joints, nerves, muscles, ligaments and tendons. And let’s not forget Estelle’s …
15 years! Whew, what an anniversary! We thought long and hard about how to celebrate it, but the one constant theme we kept coming up with was wanting to share and celebrate with our wonderful family of patients. Many of whom have, over the years, brought me their family as well, which I consider the …
And, just like us, the Over 50’s Expo has moved to a bigger, better location in Fuengirola! I have to admit that this is one of my favourite weekends of the year. I get let out of my “box” and get to talkto so many people! Find out what everyone is thinking, say hello to people without …
Estelle and the Bodyworks are going to the Over 50’s Expo! Read More »
Bringing her love of the Muscuoskeletal and deceptively strong thumbs meet Estelle (the Physio) Mitchell and read about her fun life and mini adventures in Spain. Why Spain? I got sick of the cold! I was born in Malaya and never quite got used to the cold and damp in the UK! We were debating between …
Out walking, on the playing field or tennis court, you fall and hurt your ankle. Annoying and painful, definitely. But now what? Feet up on the couch or off to A&E? These tests, called the Ottawa Ankle Rules, are designed to figure out if you need an X-ray or just rest 1. Can you take …
Giving birth may be a wonderful experience but it is without a doubt, one of the hardest things you will ever ask your body to do. And it comes after 9 months of your body doing extraordinary things and undergoing extraordinary changes. The hormones released during pregnancy, birth and the period directly after giving birth …
Diet and migraine are inextricably linked aren’t they? Most migraine patients have at least one food that it feels like they only have to look at to trigger a migraine. Often, in reality, the relationship can be more complicated than that – an overstressed system takes the smallest trigger to over react and, by reducing …
In 2015 additional training and equipment meant that I was able to introduce our new Headache and Migraine Clinic service which has expanded ever since. New team members and upgraded technology mean that we can do better at what is required to treat this challenging and complicated condition. Which, in my experience, is treating the whole person. …
When you choose to have a cosmetic procedure it is easy to forget that before you reach the beautiful “after” picture you have to undergo surgery. And all surgery, regardless of its aim, causes trauma and swelling and discomfort. Which doesn’t really fit into that beautiful “after” picture does it? Less swelling, less pain, faster …
Surgery is a BIG thing for our bodies. There’s the medication and anaesthetic, the trauma to skin, muscles and other tissues, the emotional stress . . . . Now admittedly these can vary HUGELY depending on the procedure – open heart surgery is a totally different conversation to an arthroscopy for instance. But all three …
