Caring for your ‘jeck’: Skin Rejuvenation Clinic

In this current technological time, it is cellphones, not sun exposure that are making the skin below the chin (or ‘jeck’: neck, jawline and jowls) our number-one problem area for early aging.   In recent years, the team at the Skin Rejuvenation Clinic has seen the sort of aging in the neck […]

Live your best life: Total Fitness

Ever noticed that unhealthy lifestyle habits seem to play on a loop? With excessive stress, limited time, diminishing energy levels and poor food choices, exercise can come to an abrupt pause. Sometimes all you need is one motivating factor.   If you had access to top quality PT sessions that were tax […]

Looking from the outside in: Pacific Radiology

Radiology in Canterbury is now more accessible as the Canterbury network of branches expands its patient-based customer care to even more communities, with new branches in Rolleston and Ashburton.   Radiology is often the unsung hero of the medical diagnostic world and can play a vital role in disease management by giving […]

Feel good about smiling: Merivale Denture Clinic

Dentures are often thought of as something that look like teeth and will help you eat a little better, but there’s a lot more to them. Senior clinical dental technician Thomas Gu of the Merivale Denture Clinic says dentures are precision oral prosthesis. They restore lost function of the mouth and teeth […]

A new chapter: Flow Wellbeing

Supporting wellness throughout your life journey.   There is something for everyone at the Flow Wellbeing Centre – opening Spring 2021. In the centre you will find four elemental themed studios, with class lengths of 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes, alongside multiple clinician rooms offering you gold-standard practitioners to support your […]

Holistic beauty: My Beauty Clinic

Often the root cause of skin issues comes from within and needs to be worked on from the inside first. Holistic treatment, customised to each individual client and their needs can work wonders. With backgrounds in traditional Chinese medicine, the staff at My Beauty Clinic provide treatments that combine the very best […]

Peri-what?

An expert’s advice on navigating perimenopause. As a naturopathic doctor with decades of experience in women’s health, and now the bestselling author of two books, Lara Briden has an incredibly in-depth understanding of menopause and all that comes with it. Lara’s latest book, Hormone Repair Manual is a practical guide to healthy […]

Now hear this: Bellbird Hearing

From the moment you walk through the door of the recently established Bellbird Hearing clinic you have a sense of a warm and caring environment. The waiting area is inviting; the staff welcoming – a place designed to overcome any reluctance patients may associate with requiring treatment for hearing loss.   “We […]

Stay in and exercise

  Regular exercise has been found to improve mental health, build-up fitness and help to stave off numerous medical conditions.     Exercising during the colder winter months may not be as pleasant as jogging along the beach in summer, yet there are many forms of indoor workouts that can be embraced […]

Keeping abreast of cancer

  A University of Canterbury (UC) student has developed a new computerised method of reading mammograms that could help radiologists detect warning signs of breast cancer.     Haipeng Li is about to complete a PhD in Software Engineering at UC after spending the last three years working on computational algorithms that […]