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INTRO The health industry stats for long term compliance with rehabilitation exercise programs make for depressing but perhaps unsurprising reading. Less than 1% of people are still doing their prescribed exercises for chronic complaints after a year, some because they are slack but many because they simply didn’t realise that it was needed. If I reflect…

There are so many frustrating ways that pain has to interrupt your ability to do the exercise you want and need. Many of us find that when we have back pain or hip pain certain lifting movements at the gym become a major trigger for episodes of pain. Niggly knee pain that comes in half…

  Plantar fasciitis is a real pain !!!! There aren’t many worse ways to start the day than your first few steps being agonisingly painful. It can become quite scary and frustrating to find that your ability to stand and walk are becoming limited by the pain of plantar fasciitis. I have personally met countless…

Pain Overview Pain is fundamentally unpleasant, and that’s kind of it’s whole point. If the sensation of touching a hot stove or banging your skull on concrete wasn’t unpleasant we wouldn’t learn what pain has to teach us about health and safety. In other words we are not supposed to do a lot of the…

On the face of it what I do is help people with pain ( back pain, plantar fasciitis and the like ). If we unpack the subject of being pain free what we generally find is that it boils down to ‘freedom’. Freedom to do all the things we need to do ( like carry…

Without knowing it you are an expert on dental care ! When you go to your dentists with tooth ache you are very aware of pain ! Most of us are also aware of many other complex, subtle and scientific aspects of our tooth ache ! We know that the pain in the tooth is…

Body Building I trained as a fitness coach and sports therapist way back at the turn of the century. We were taught how to lift weights and the governing principle was ‘isolation’. The idea being that if you want to get greatest muscle development you really need to isolate and target each muscle as best…

Most it not all sufferers of back pain, hip pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, plantar fasciitis, arm pain and leg pain at some point will experience the benefits of stretching the painful area. But how much help is stretching in the long term for different types of pain and is it the ultimate solution ?…

We’re all going to die !!!!  In fact we are all in a steady state of decline. Even if you crack your diet, your exercises regimen, your emotional well-being and your work life balance tomorow the bad news is all you will have done is slightly prolong the inevitable. Depressing isn’t it … or is…

I have met 100’s of people who have been helped by the medical system.. in fact I am one of them BIG TIME. I have also met 100’s who have been badly damaged by the medical system .. but more often in their minds more than their bodies believe it or not. What I mean…