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What is in your manual therapy cocktail?
As we each progress through our individual careers in manual therapy, we tend to accumulate various skills, tools and approaches. Our professional development is often built on the idea that we need to learn new things and “stack” modalities into our toolkit. What I’ve often seen happen is practitioners ultimately feeling the need to utilise […]
The Power of the Inverse
Unlike many of my peers, I had enjoyed mathematics through high school, particularly algebra and inverse functions. I’ve not continued with any mathematical study since then, but I do consider the usefulness of these exercises in the way of conversation and reasoning almost daily. Consider the common expression; “Something is better than nothing”. I’ve struggled […]
My Back Pain Diary: Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
My favourite day of the week is deadlift day…After a brisk 15-minute walk to the gym, I cut a bee line and went straight to the deadlift platform. I started with two warm-up sets at 60 kg, ten reps each. Then added two more plates for the next set. On my second repetition, I felt […]
Goals and what they cost.
This is the time of year that many of us will be setting our intentions, making plans and committing to new things.New Year’s resolutions and goal setting almost feels like expectations, but why do those goals often NOT get met? In my experience, there are a few things we can do that will help increase […]
The hand anatomy mini-series – Muscular Layers
If you haven’t already read or would like a recap of our hand anatomy blogs, please follow the links below to update your understanding of the anatomy of the hand – Bony Anatomy – Connective Tissue Anatomy – Figure 1 shows the extensor digitorum insertion onto the middle and distal phalanges of the second to […]
Threat Level Extreme
Is pain a manifestation of a heightened perceived level of threat? Remember that we learn what is threatening from our previous experience so we can make better decisions it in the future. But sometimes that learned behaviour sticks even after the tissue has healed of the stimulus is removed. Simply believing that something is dangerous […]
