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Back pain from Gardening?

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I dug a hole in our garden the other day. (yes, I call that gardening). Unsurprisingly I ached a fair amount afterward – for a good couple of days. You could even say I had the dreaded “back ache”. Yes, despite being fairly active, lifting weights and trying to keep in as good a shape as possible, a day of spade work and repetitious activity gave my body a bit of a shock in terms of making me want to sit down and take some pain killers. It wasn’t simply doing gardening that did this, it was the constant repetition … Continue reading →

Motivation to do exercise.

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It doesn’t come from your physio. A lot of people struggle with motivation to do something new, something that might help with their health. Normally the motivation occurs when the consequence of not doing exercise is worse than simply doing exercise. For example, when Type II diabetes has been diagnosed, when bones have become osteoporotic, or when “all of a sudden” you’re unable to get up off the floor. It is human nature to wait until something goes wrong, or to wait until something needs to be done before it actually gets acted upon. Think back to school homework. Think … Continue reading →

Human movements: How not to lose them as you get older

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The words “deadlift” and “squat” provoke particular images and predictable responses from a number of people. People who don’t “do” the gym tend to see them as a bit of a scary thing which can lead to some pretty scary injuries, and are therefore classed in the “do not do this activity” section of their heads. The fact that these movements are based around everyday movements – or what should be everyday movements seems to pass a lot of people by. Pick up something heavy. That’s a Deadlift. Sit down and stand up again. That’s effectively a dead-stop squat. Normal, … Continue reading →

Fall Prevention

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If you have a small child who has not yet learned to walk, yet you are worried about them falling over, what should you do to prevent them from falling over. There are 2 options really: Don’t allow them to get up off the floor. If they’re always on the floor they can’t fall over. Encourage them to learn to walk, gradually increasing their sense of balance and strength as they do so. I think you might agree that the first option really isn’t viable, so what we tend to do is let them get on with it. They want … Continue reading →

CPD in Physio

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We’re taught things at massage and physio school that have been around for a long time. They have been unquestioned pillars of the profession for years if not decades and have been taught as such. With the current trend in Evidence Based Practice, more and more of these “essential” skills are being looked at with fresh eyes, and fairly often, the dogma of what has come before is proving to be incorrect from an evidence based point of view. This is an interesting conundrum for physios, who claim to be from a science background. (Indeed, the degree is a BSc, … Continue reading →

Hyperflexibility – Is there anything we can do?!

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Hypermobility -what does it mean, in simple terms? Remember being at school… there were always people who were “double jointed”. Those whose party trick involved joints that did some really weird stuff. Maybe you were one of those. I was (and still am) the complete opposite. My trick was NOT being able to touch my toes. Hypermobility, fun as it is when you’re a kid, has a few things that can catch up with you in later life. If you are the kind of person that can (or could, as a child) easily touch the floor with both hands, have … Continue reading →