We often hear: This was my posture before strengthening my rhomboids, and this is my posture after. Or, Here’s my posture before I stretched my pecs, and here’s the after. But let’s be real—this [...]
After 33 years of being a PT and taking hundreds of subjective exam from patients, I have come to the conclusion that the less I talk the better. This is how I currently do my subjective [...]
Exercising to lose pain or to lose weight or to change our body shape immediately implies that we are defective and that we are not good the way we are. When our goal to exercise is to change [...]
Physical Activity: Movement of the body that requires energy Exercise: Structured physical activity that is planned with the purpose of improving and maintaining fitness As physiotherapists, we [...]
Balance has been shown to improve symptoms in many conditions ranging from ankle sprains, chronic neck pain and to even fibromyalgia syndrome, but why? Perhaps it is because the greatest stressor [...]
Hormesis is defined as an adaptive response of cells and organisms to a moderate (usually intermittent) physical and/or physiological stress. For instance fasting is a form of hormesis where the [...]
This information based on a webinar by Dr. Jack Callaghan. For the past 10 years, prolonged sitting has been blamed to be the leading cause of obesity and death! However, this study looked at [...]
A 2003 literature review on the topic of leg length inequality (LLI) or discrepancy (LLD) and LBP concluded that, “…little agreement exists regarding the prevalence of limb length inequality, the [...]
Some studies offer evidence that leg length discrepancy (LLD) is associated with a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as hip or knee OA and chronic low back pain (LBP). One study for [...]
Coaches and trainers of professional athletes like to use a device called the “Vertec Vertical Jump Tester” which is a fairly accurate and reliable method of measuring vertical jump height but [...]
