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Postural correction and changing posture. Can we treat our patients like...
Audience: Therapists and Strength Coaches Purpose: To justify the use of a variety of exercises (even general exercises) for training, rehabilitation and injury prevention and question the application...
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The “truth” about sports drinks – two sides to every story should be heard
A recent article in BMJ by Deb Cohen entitled “The truth about sports drinks” got a lot of people very excited, me included. The article seemed well written to me but I don’t know enough in this area...
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This physiotherapist’s approach to treating Persistent Pain
Audience: Patients and other health care providers Purpose: To explain my treatment approach to Persistent Pain Problems. Overview of the Treatment Program: Pain Physiology Education Movement (Graded...
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Hip Centricity: A pictorial of hip exercises
Audience: Patients Purpose: I recommend a lot of hip exercises and consider variety and novelty important for people in pain and for athletic injury rehabilitation. This is just a catalog of...
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Core stability and pain: Is it time to stop using the word stability to...
Purpose: To cherry pick a few research articles to suggest that even though our knowledge of core stability is very impressive its link to pain is poor. Nutshell summary: People in pain have spines...
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Core stability and low back pain: How stability exercises might help. Part Two
In part one of this post I very simple reviewed some of the ideas behind core stability and how I questioned their relevance to a patient’s pain presentation. In this follow up post I will briefly...
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Changing your running form. What can you do to influence pain?
Purpose: To list a number of gait adaptations that you can make that might help you run injury and pain free. Background I’m of the opinion that running is rehab. Here are some running rehabilitation...
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Static stretching: not evil, not a panacea just a
This brief post has two main points: Static stretching is not going to kill your performance and Static stretching is not a cure-all Further, nothing in this post is even remotely new. Are you against...
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Trail running clinics with duathlete Jennifer Faraone
Elite Duathlete Jennifer Faraone is hosting two trail running clinics at Rattlesnake Point, Milton Ontario. June 2 Trail Running for Beginners July 7 Getting Stronger and Faster on the Trails. Both...
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Your cranky nerves: A primer for patients to understand pain
Audience: Patients with any type of pain or injury Purpose: to learn a little about pain and convince you that pain is not in your head even though your brain plays a big role Why? Understanding pain...
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Cognitive Functional Therapy Course in Toronto June 13-15 2014
I am helping drum up enrollment for this great course in Toronto June 13-15, 2014. I am a fan of this approach and am looking forward to taking the course and hope to see a lot of people there....
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Postural correction and changing posture. Can we treat our patients like...
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Todd Hargrove’s Book: A guide to better movement
Todd Hargrove is a great fitness and health writer at bettermovement.org. I’ve been talking with Todd for years and find his information and thought process excellent. He has a new book out which I...
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