Great blogpost by Erik Meira where he explains why we should load our tissues! 🙂 Erik Meira is a physical therapist who has authored several articles and textbook chapters and has lectured privately and at conferences sponsored through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association …
Awesome guest blogpost by Jarod Hall about the intervertebral disc! 🙂 Our communication to our patients is very important and that begins with good understanding of the anatomy and physiology. Jarod does a great job explaining why we shouldn’t be fearful for our back and that a disc can’t slip. Jarod Hall is a physio, clinic …
Very excited to announce that Peter Malliaras was willing to share his 9 tendinopathy truths that you must know! 🙂 Great information here! Peter Malliaras is a physiotherapist and researcher from Melbourne, Australia specializing in tendinopathy. In 2006 he completed his PhD in tendinopathy identifying novel risk factors, and since has undertaken post doctoral research …
New guest blogpost about functional hamstring rehabilitation! I am very excited and honoured that Tom Goom wanted to write a blogpost about hamstring rehabilitation. Check out his awesome website: running-physio.com. Great information there! Tom Goom is a physio, researcher and lead lecturer on the Running Repairs Course. He’s written extensively on running injury management and …
Here is a short version of my thought process when treating patient with low back pain: Low back pain has a good prognosis. 90% doesn’t take sick leave and from that 10%, who did take sick leave, is ¾ back to work within 4 weeks. You can tell patients that to start. First screen …
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Tailoring health information and health literacy. First guest blogpost! 🙂 Bob Vermeeren-de Groot, a dutch physio- and manual therapist, Msc. His expertise domain is pain in general and he predominantly treats people with spine, shoulder and hip pain. He works in a small community and this is a reason why he became interested in public …
No, your pelvis is not out of place… You often hear your patients tell you: “My pelvis is misaligned, can you put it back in place?” A lot of people have beliefs about their back that are not evidence based. Chiropractors, manual therapists and physiotherapists …
The future of physiotherapy education, and the role of social media. I believe in a world where every physiotherapist is checking every day a physiotherapy website or social media page to get useful information. That information can be used the same day with their patients. And ofcourse, Trust me, I’m …
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