Hito Holistic Health

Your nervous system was designed for nature.
Modern life just forgot to tell it.

A walk in the forest. Sitting under a tree. The sound of birds.

These aren't luxuries — they're inputs your nervous system actually recognises.

When your body stays locked in stress mode, it doesn't just feel overwhelming — it shows up physically. Jaw tension and TMJ pain tighten. Dizziness and vestibular symptoms flare. Chronic pain becomes harder to manage. Headaches linger longer.

Stress doesn't cause these conditions — but it absolutely amplifies them.

Nature quietly does what no supplement can: it shifts your body out of fight-or-flight and into restoration. Even 10 minutes near water or greenery at lunchtime can reset your whole afternoon.

Your body already knows how to calm down.
Sometimes it just needs the right environment to remember.

🌿 Save this for your next rough day.

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Jaw pain and a tight neck. This stretch targets the connection between them — and it is one most jaw pain patients have never been shown. 🦷

In this short video Alessio demonstrates the mid neck opening stretch — a transitional exercise that opens the front of the neck at a midpoint, specifically designed for people whose presentations are sensitive and who need to build range gradually before attempting full neck extension.

The muscles at the front of the neck shorten when the head drifts forward toward a screen for hours every day. That shortening pulls directly on the jaw — loading the joint continuously throughout the working day. Releasing that shortened tissue is one of the most important early steps in breaking the jaw-neck tension pattern.

How to do it:
Sit upright with back support. Recline slightly while moving your chin halfway backward and upward — not all the way up, not all the way in. Use your hand or a wall for gentle support if needed. Breathe into your belly throughout.

The goal is 90 seconds.
This is the duration at which connective tissue begins to change — producing a lasting release rather than a temporary one that reverts immediately. Start with 5–10 seconds and build gradually over days and weeks. Once 90 seconds is comfortable, one repetition per day is enough. Stop immediately if dizziness, nausea, or any symptom worsens.

Do you know what's driving your jaw pain symptom? Take our 2-minute TMJ assessment - personalised score across body, nervous system, and mindset. Comment "JAW PAIN" and we'll send it straight to you.

📍 London Bridge, SE1
🌐 www.hito-physio.com
📞 +44 20 3318 8698

We are so pleased to introduce Simona Jacob — our Senior Physiotherapist here at Hito. 🌿

Simona brings 8 years of clinical experience and an MSc in Advanced Physiotherapy — with a specialist focus on musculoskeletal conditions, jaw pain and TMJ, sports injuries, and post-surgical rehabilitation.

She is available every Tuesday from 10am–5pm — full day availability with no need to rush.

✅ Accepted insurances: Axa · Bupa · Aviva · Vitality · Wpa · Private pay

📅 Book your appointment — link in bio.

📍 London Bridge, SE1
🌐 www.hito-physio.com
📞 +44 20 3318 8698

We are so pleased to introduce Simona Jacob — our Senior Physiotherapist here at Hito. 🌿

Simona brings 8 years of clinical experience and an MSc in Advanced Physiotherapy — with a specialist focus on musculoskeletal conditions, jaw pain and TMJ, sports injuries, and post-surgical rehabilitation.

She is available every Tuesday from 10am–5pm — full day availability with no need to rush.

✅ Accepted insurances: Axa · Bup · Aviva · Vitality · Wpa · Private pay

📅 Book your appointment — link in bio.

We are so pleased to introduce Simona Jacobs — our Senior Physiotherapist here at Hito. 🌿

Simona brings 8 years of clinical experience and an MSc in Advanced Physiotherapy — with a specialist focus on musculoskeletal conditions, jaw pain and TMJ, sports injuries, and post-surgical rehabilitation.

What makes Simona particularly special is the depth and confidence she brings to complex presentations. With 8 years behind her, she has seen a wide range of cases and knows how to get to the root of what is going on.

She is available every Tuesday from 10am–5pm — full day availability with no need to rush.

✅ Accepted insurances: AXA · BUPA · Aviva · Vitality · WPA · Private pay

📅 Book your appointment — link in bio.

📍 London Bridge, SE1
🌐 www.hito-physio.com
📞 +44 20 3318 8698

The dentist gave you a splint. The GP said it was stress. The specialist checked the joint. You may have even tried Botox. And still — the jaw aches. The headaches come back. The neck is always tight on the same side. The clenching at night gets worse every time work gets hard.

You are not imagining it. And you are absolutely not failing the treatment.

The reason nothing has fully worked is not that your jaw pain is untreatable. It is that every specialist has looked at one piece of a picture that has three. The joint. The muscles. The neck. The nerve. The nervous system. The posture. The stress pattern that keeps the jaw braced from the moment you wake up.

Nobody has looked at all of it. Until that happens — the ceiling stays exactly where it is.

💙 Save this if it resonates. Share it with someone who has been told to just manage it.

📍 London Bridge, SE1
🌐 www.hito-physio.com
📞 +44 20 3318 8698

We are so pleased to introduce Manasi Desai — one of our physiotherapists here at Hito. 🌿

Manasi brings 3 years of clinical experience and an MSc in Sport & Exercise Medicine from Leeds Beckett University. She provides expert evidence-based treatment for musculoskeletal conditions, sports injuries, and knee and lower limb rehabilitation — and is currently developing her specialist practice in women's health physiotherapy.

If you have been looking for a physiotherapist who is thorough, evidence-based, and genuinely invested in your recovery — Manasi is a wonderful fit.

And if weekdays simply don't work for you — she is available every Saturday from 10am to 4pm.

✅ Accepted insurances: AXA · Aviva · Vitality · WPA · Private pay
📅 Book your appointment — link in bio.

📍 London Bridge, SE1
🌐 www.hito-physio.com
📞 +44 20 3318 8698

What if your body is not broken — it is just full? 🧠

In this video Julie shares a concept that changes how most people understand their physical symptoms — the stress container.

Think of it like a bucket. Every day it fills up — a demanding job, a full home life, broken sleep, caring for others, the anxiety that comes with persistent pain that nobody has explained. Most of us carry this without thinking. We just keep going.

But when the bucket overflows — and it always eventually does — the most vulnerable part of your body gives way. For some people that is migraines. For others it is jaw pain, digestive problems, or the kind of dizziness that arrived seemingly out of nowhere and never fully went away.

Julie describes a patient who developed acute vertigo during one of the most stressful periods of her life. Her body had not failed her. It was telling her something. By focusing on emptying the stress container daily — rather than just treating the vertigo itself — her symptoms resolved significantly within four weeks.

The question most people ask when symptoms persist is: "What is wrong with me?"

The more useful question is: "What have I been carrying all this time?"

Your symptoms are not a mystery. They are a message. And when you start to hear them differently — everything changes.

If you have been through multiple specialist appointments, received treatment that helped partially and then plateaued, and nobody has yet asked what you have been carrying — that conversation starts with a free discovery call with Julie.

📅 Free 30-minute discovery call with Julie → Link in bio.

📍 London Bridge, SE1
🌐 www.hito-physio.com
📞 +44 20 3318 8698

We are so pleased to introduce Vyomika Jashnani — one of our newest physiotherapists at Hito. 🌿

Vyomika brings 2 years of clinical experience across musculoskeletal conditions, sports injuries, post-surgical rehabilitation, hypermobility, and TMJ disorders — and is currently completing her MSc in Physiotherapy at Cardiff University.

She has early morning slots from 8am and evening appointments until 8pm — perfect if you need to fit physiotherapy around a busy working day.

Accepted insurances: AXA · Aviva · Vitality · WPA · and private pay.

We are so glad to have her here. 💙

📍 London Bridge, SE1
🌐 www.hito-physio.com
📞 +44 20 3318 8698

Your dizziness tests came back normal. Here is what they didn’t check. 🧠

In this short video Alessio explains why the neck is the most consistently overlooked dimension of dizziness investigation — and what changes when it is finally assessed and treated.

Your brain uses three signals to know where you are in space: the inner ear, the eyes, and the neck. All three need to send consistent information for the balance system to work properly. When any one signal is distorted — the brain receives conflicting data. And that conflict is dizziness.

Standard dizziness investigation checks the inner ear thoroughly. The neck — which sends its own direct signals to the brain’s balance centre — is almost never assessed.

In a patient Alessio worked with recently, her upper neck was restricted to 20% of normal lateral movement, with misalignment at the very top of the cervical spine. She had not been able to lie flat without head support for two years. None of this had been identified in any previous assessment.

Treatment focused on releasing the neck first — before any traditional vestibular exercises. After her second session, she could lie flat for the first time in two years. Her dizziness reduced significantly within days.

This is why Alessio never skips the neck in vestibular patients. It is rarely not involved. And when it is, releasing it first is often what allows the vestibular system to finally respond.

Have you seen multiple specialists, had all the tests — and still no clear answer for your dizziness?

You are not alone. And the answer may not be where anyone has looked yet.
Book a Free 30-minute discovery call. Link in bio.

📍 London Bridge, SE1
🌐 www.hito-physio.com
📞 +44 20 3318 8698