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The foot and the ankle have a thing going on.
Touch a hot plate and your arm immediately withdraws before you feel the pain. This withdrawal reflex is protective and faster than the brain issuing a pain response and then...
Talk enough tosh and some of it will come true.
Have you made some post-pandemic predictions and found like-minded souls in a Facebook echo-chamber? Yep – me to!
Kick em while they’re down…Special tests chased out-a town.
The Research Titans seem determined to knock Orthopedic special tests off their pedestal. Here I give my opinion on the latest article titled:
A Strong Recommendation for Shoulder Manual Therapy
Manual therapy has been challenged over the past few years but is it the clinical outcomes or the suggested mechanisms that have been challenged? I don’t think we are really...
Pilates & RockTape working together
Gemma Griffies is one of the UK’s leading Physiotherapy instructors for RockTape. Gemma delivers all of our courses including Pods, Blades and the New Movement Specialist course. Gemma is also...
Rockstar and EIS Physio Jo Meek talks lockdown running in Dartmoor
Lockdown, in theory, meant less but living in Dartmoor National Park it meant more and moor. With races cancelled I had no goals or aims. I was recovering from a...
Exercise and Immunity
It’s well known that regular exercise is good for our immune system and overall health but there is a commonly held misbelief that an acute bout of exercise can temporarily...