At New Year's Eve, while toasting, did you mention your good intentions for 2021? Many good resolutions have to do with a healthy(er) lifestyle. Going to the gym more, eating healthier, quitting smoking. Yet why is it so hard to keep them? The gyms are often packed in January, while...
Physiotherapy remains accessible to all at FriskFysio during the lockdown. As you probably heard, a hard lockdown has gone into effect immediately. There was some varying news coverage for a while, but physiotherapy remains accessible to everyone as usual during the hard lockdown. This is different from earlier reporting on nu.nl and NOS. There that afternoon wrongly...
As tempting as it may be to snuggle up warm with a blanket on the sofa, it is also important to stay active and fit during the autumn and winter months. The corona virus makes it even more important to keep your resistance as good as possible. By working on your fitness, you will have...
The days are shorter and the temperature is dropping. It really is winter now! At this time of year, we tend to eat more. Besides being cold, the supermarket is also full of delicious Christmas wreaths, oliebollen and pastry bars. In short, winter is full of temptations to good food. The downside...
Housework, something that has to be done daily and is not always fun. From vacuuming, to cleaning the bathroom and from ironing to washing dishes. Something you can't get away from. However, doing housework also has its benefits. In addition to a clean environment, doing housework also gets you moving. You have the...
What foods and meals are you thinking about now that winter is almost here? Probably not that fresh meal salad or a delicious cold pasta salad, but rather stew or hachee. As soon as King Winter is around the corner, we get a craving for different food. Apart from the stews we are all familiar with, casseroles, stews and...
Every year, the number of people in the Netherlands with a chronic condition increases. As many as 9.9 million people in the Netherlands had one or more chronic conditions in 2019. This number corresponds to 58 per cent of the Dutch population! The most common chronic conditions are osteoarthritis and chronic neck and back pain. But also chronic cardiovascular diseases,...
Do you recognise this? A sore back because you've been lugging around for too long or not lying comfortably? Back pain is a common problem that can have many different causes. It can be easy to blame external factors, but did you know that there can be a link between mental and...
Breathing is the first thing we do the moment we enter the world and the last when we leave it again. It is an important part of our lives because without breathing, we cannot live. Our breathing is an unconscious process that we do thousands of times a day. It ensures...
You have been sleeping soundly and try to get up calmly. Then you feel it... considerable pain in your neck. Suffering from a sore neck is not the way you want to start your day. In most cases, a sore neck is a result of your sleeping position, the type of pillow you use or...