Rehabilitation

If an exercise causes pain, we discuss why simply waiting a minute and trying it again can work wonders. I’ve written previously about why resistance training can help reduce pain over time. What if an exercise causes pain in the moment however? Strangely, just giving it a minute and trying again can often produce a […]

In this post, we discuss why exercise names don’t matter and why force is the critical factor—especially if you’re in pain or recovering from injury. What image springs to mind if I say the word Pilates? What about weight training? Or yoga? Each form of exercise probably conjures up unique and very distinct images in […]

In this post we discuss why focusing on sensations fails in chronic muscle and joint pain and what to concentrate on instead. There’s an intuition we must resist when dealing with chronic muscle and joint pain: The site of pain is where the problem is and where the treatment should be applied. I spent years […]

In this post we discuss why your daily exercises help, but don’t seem to keep the pain away. Do you find yourself having to do a bunch of exercises every day just to stay out of pain? These are usually exercises that you perform at home with either your own bodyweight or resistance bands. Frustrating […]

In this post we discuss why resistance training succeeds where physiotherapy and chiropractic care sometimes fails. Here are a couple of paragraphs from a recent Google review posted by my client Robert. He came to me for help with a recurring knee issue that was impacting his activities. “After a few months my knee felt […]