By Stephen Janz Clinic Director: Kenmore Centre for Health, Brisbane. History of Remedial Massage The most natural instinct when you hurt yourself is to hold or rub the affected area. […]
Pain
A report by Stephen Janz MPH, Clinic Director – Kenmore Centre for Health, Brisbane. Codeine Restricted to Prescription Only The news that painkillers containing codeine will be restricted to prescription […]
Acupuncture, Chronic Pain and the Codeine Restriction
by Stephen Janz, RN BN BAc MPH – Clinic Director Kenmore Centre for Health I wonder how many conversations have started by mentioning an aching back! Low back pain is […]
Treating Back Pain Without Drugs: The role of Acupuncture, Massage ...
What is Sciatica? In its simplest definition Sciatica refers to pain along the course of the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in the body and arises […]
Acupuncture More Effective for Sciatica
Some neck pain has a simple underlying cause that fully resolves either on its own or with treatment. Other cases can be more complex and perhaps related to an underlying […]
Chronic Neck Pain? Acupuncture may be the Answer
By Stephen Janz – Clinic Director, Kenmore Centre for Health, Brisbane I am often asked by patients how to avoid a recurrence of back pain. It’s not helpful to discover […]
Preventing Back Pain: It’s the Thought That Counts
Tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis or epicondylalgia, is the most common type of elbow pain and contrary to its name is not caused just by playing tennis. Any type of […]
No Strain No Pain – Overcoming Tennis Elbow
A newly published study on acupuncture in 4 Melbourne emergency departments showed acupuncture as a valuable alternative to drug therapy. 200 patients experiencing pain and/or nausea received acupuncture and usual […]
Acupuncture: As Effective as Drugs for Relieving Pain and Nausea.
The most natural instinct when something hurts in the body is to hold or rub the affected area. It is little surprise then that massage therapy is one of the […]
What’s Remedial Massage?
Research continues to show the benefits of natural medicine for improving health in modern society. The practitioners at Kenmore Centre for Health combine ancient traditions with modern research to provide […]
Welcome to Kenmore Centre for Health
As an acupuncturist with 26 years experience, it is fascinating to suddenly be asked if we do dry needling. Dry needling is a new term to describe the ancient technique […]