Stockbridge Osteopathic Practice

24/11/2025

Please donate a fiver on my Just Giving page to cancer research 🙏🏾

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/emmas-giving-page-326819073

24/11/2025

The best all-rounder exercise for the pelvic floor, ticking the box for:

✅ pelvic floor stretch and activation
✅ glute strength
✅ adductor stretch
✅ hip joint mobility
✅ core control
✅ breath work
✅ diaphragm and PF coordination
✅ shoulder strength and stability

Top tips:
• inhale as you sit back to your heel
• exhale as you kneel up and stretch to the side
• work body weight to nail form and then progress with dumbbell or kettlebell

Have you tried it yet?

20/11/2025

Brrrrr! That’s Dip 1 completed for the 12 Dips of Christmas challenge in aid of
That was a tough initiation at 3 degrees!

Needles in the skin and prickling feet, this is actually painful.

BUT! It still feels amazing, water at this temperature has a viscous, almost silk like quality and looking at the fading light in the reeds and the stars so bright over head, there is a sense of serene calm 😌

A friend of mine lost their partner to cancer last night. And I’m sure you’re not far from the effects yourself.

Please consider donating a fiver to help me reach my goal of £100. £100 is the cost of a biopsy which is crucial to early detection

Thank you x

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/emmas-giving-page-326819073?urn=677394981&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mcmp&utm_campaign=n25u4a8c&utm_content=n26u4ha201&utm_term=fp12dips_in_series_2025_november_email_welcome1_n25u4a8c

20/11/2025

Last night another life was lost to cancer. I know i'm asking a lot for you to make a donation at this time of year, but if everyone could wing over just a fiver, we'd be at my target in no time. £100 pays for a persons biopsy, and we know that early detection saves lives.

I'm joining this crazy challenge and committing to 12 cold water dips between now and Christmas to help raise money for Cancer Research. Please help motivate me to get in the cold and support Cancer Research UK at the same time!

Thank you 🙏 x

Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. I’m going to be taking on the 12 Dips of Christmas Challenge this December to help raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please show your support and help fund life-saving cancer research by donating to my page.

17/11/2025

I’ve just signed up for this! I’d love some company and motivation to get this done, would you like to join me!?

Go to to sign up ✍️

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/get-involved/find-an-event/12-dips-of-christmas?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23163811143&gbraid=0AAAAADr87qKjuR8yOCzqLrQ3SfF7anxPX&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5ODwrNr5kAMV16NQBh190irXEAAYASAAEgJWZPD_BwE

17/11/2025

Back a bit stiff, achey or sore in the mornings?

This is a lovely flow that eases the spine into its ranges of flexion, extension and rotation.

If your back is actually painful, you might like to work with smaller movements and limit the ranges that feel sore, especially avoiding a full back bend.

Repeat the flow 6-10 times.

This is a great flow to promote a healthy spine, improve flexibility, stability, core strength and reduce the risk of injury.

15/11/2025

Boost your pelvic floor (PF) workouts with a SLIDER — a simple tool that increases muscle activation and movement control by reducing friction and demanding greater stability.

It can:
* Increase core engagement through continuous stabilisation
* Reduce joint stress with smooth, low-impact motion
* Improve balance and proprioception
* Enhance mobility by allowing larger, controlled ranges of motion
* Build muscular endurance with sustained tension

Try these 3 exercises for core, PF and hip health:
1️⃣ Kettlebell lateral sliders
2️⃣ Hip extension Sliders
3️⃣ Single leg hamstring sliders (go double leg to begin with if this is new to you)

Here’s to happy hips 🥂

08/11/2025

Found a b***y band to match my trainers! And just had to make a little glute workout with it for you!

These 3 exercises work the hip in 3 of its ranges to help build power and strength for walking, running, jumping and even standing from sitting:

1. Abduction + extension - side lying leg raises
2. External rotation + abduction - standing sliders
3. Extension - kettlebell clean and squat

These exercises are also great for mid-stage glute tendon rehab and building a strong pelvic floor

Add in the breath to really connect with your pelvic floor, with the sliders and squats, inhale as you lower and exhale as you come up. With the leg raises, inhale as the leg lowers and exhale as you raise it 💨

Go find a matching band and trainers, and get inspired 🩷!

03/11/2025

To reduce shoulder pain, start by improving scapular (shoulder blade) motion.

A stable and smooth moving scapula provides the foundation and solid base for the arm to move on

Without a smooth gliding and properly positioned scapula, the shoulder joint range will be limited, joint space narrowed and increases risk of tendonitis, rotator cuff dysfunction and impingement

Use these 3 exercises to strengthen the muscles that control the scapula and create more space and improved alignment for your shoulder

1. Kettlebell body rotations
2. Bear pose shoulder taps
3. YWTO’s

26/10/2025

“We just want to say thank you, for all that you have done. The sacrifices you have made are making such a difference, and you know, our God sees each and every one of you. May God bless your hearts for evermore.”

This is for all those wonderful friends, family, schools, sponsors and donors who have supported me, and in doing so helped children like this.

A huge heartfelt thank you, from them to you for your gifts of uniform, toys, clothes, sports kit, toiletries, donations and words of encouragement and support.

We leave the girls at with our hearts full and our bags empty.

We will miss the cries of “teacher, teacher”, the children’s curiosity and passion, their all encompassing hugs and the joy they bring to their learning.

Special thanks to and for their gifts of uniform and sports tops

22/10/2025

Finishing my last day of work here with a tough case.

We arrived at a former dispensary, now a condemned building with whole families squatting in dark, airless rooms

We doubted the building would even last the day with our ropes and hanging sheets pulling on the crumbling concrete and bent steel cables

Communication with the local community seemed to have broken down and we had very few patients coming for treatment

Frustrating when we had travelled so far and have the capacity to help so many more

However, to have been able to meet and help ‘Susan’, my last patient of the day made up for everything

She was being subjected to repeated domestic violence, humiliation and emotional blackmail. Her husband had taken her baby.

She was incredibly brave to have spoken to me and her situation so serious that she risked her life and that of her baby by exposing her husband and subsequent retaliation

I was so thankful that I was able to treat her injuries and relieved that the local doctor, chief and authorities took action immediately, before anyone could tip off her husband

He was arrested the same day

I have not heard any follow up on how she is and if she’s safe, but I pray that by starting the process, she is able to have her baby returned and begin to rebuild her life

Such a brave young woman to have told me her story. This is one life I hope to have transformed 🙏🏾

Thanks to there is hope, healing, possibility and new lives to be lived

If you would still like to support my work, my JustGiving page is still open:
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/emmaandjemimainkenya