In this post we discuss why rehab exercises won’t work without focus and what to think about to improve their effectiveness. At a glance Your brain maintains a ‘body map’ that tracks position and movement using sensory input. Pain or injury can smudge the map—blurring how the brain represents certain areas, which can impair movement and increase the […]
Rehabilitation
Still in pain? A systems-based approach to rehab for musculoskeletal injury
If you’re still in pain following an injury that happened some time ago, this post will help to explain why and what to do now. When we’re given healing times for particular injuries, what’s often not taken into consideration is the broader effect they have on the muscular system. Sure your body can heal a […]
Why you’re waking up in pain: It’s probably not how you slept
In this post we discuss why you’re waking up in pain and debunk the myth that’s it’s connected to how you slept. Pain can be deceptive when you’re looking for the potential cause. If you touch a hot stove and recoil away in pain, there can be little doubt that the stove had something to […]
How Katharine beat sciatica to run the London Marathon
In this post we discuss how Katharine beat sciatica to run the London Marathon using targeted resistance training. Katharine came to me 5 months out from running the London marathon. She wanted to start increasing her mileage in preparation, but there was a problem: the nerve pain that had plagued her for years had made […]
This is the reason your injury rehab is failing (and how to fix it)
In this post we discuss the reason your injury rehab is failing and how to fix it using an illustrative case study. Nearly everyone I meet who is having trouble recovering from pain and injury has one thing in common: Their application of exercise is poor. Now of course this isn’t their fault. In most […]