People feel better about their chronic lower back pain with exercise therapy despite any changes in physical function/performance (i.e., strength, range of motion, muscular endurance). So what’s happening here? Other possible explanations for positive outcomes...
‘That hurts so good…’ ‘Do your worst!’ ‘If it means that I’ll feel better, I’ll deal with as much as pain as you dish out’ All very common statements that I get in my practice. Lots of folks want painful bodywork...
In a systematic review (a study that reviews other reviews to make sense of a large group of data), researchers looked for helpful predictors for people who go on to deal with persisting lower back pain. Of the things they’ve delved into, which factors do you think...
Here’s the second roundup on lower back pain but this time it’ll be centered around some quick facts. If you haven’t read about the clinical guidelines on lower back pain, definitely read up on it here. 1. LBP is a very common symptom experienced by...
There have been a series of recent papers written by a team of leading researchers on lower back pain on Lancet.com. I highly recommend taking some time to read these 3 papers here. Who has time to read stuffy white papers with a bunch of scientific jargon in it?...
Often times, clients come in my door and claim they have ‘one leg that’s shorter than the other.’ Or they say some health professional attributes the shorter leg to create all types of postural asymmetries and therefore, they have pain....
WHEN DUANE KNUDSON, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, he sees one dangerous mistake after another. “They’re stretching, touching their toes. . . . ” He sighs. “It’s...
It can’t be denied now. Pain is a complex experience and it is more and more evident that stress can add to our pain. Our felt sense of pain is a stressor and there is the external variety dealing with our day-to-day. I rather like this pdf here. Be your own...
I’d like to add to this article the reason(s) I think mind/body exercises work so well for clients are the inward focus, curiosity, novelty, and play that’s involved in their practice(s). The practice of choice can be tai chi, yoga, Feldenkrais, Hanna...
Everyone who has even thought about exercising has heard the warnings about lactic acid. It builds up in your muscles. It is what makes your muscles burn. Its buildup is what makes your muscles tire and give out. Coaches and personal trainers tell athletes and...
