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Cramps: Muscle cramps explained

Disc injury: what is all the fuss about?

Myotherapy

Guiding Principle V: Follow the pain

I am a problem solver . . . As a kid I would get myself into trouble because I spent hours pulling a something important apart because I was curious. Then I couldn't put it back together. There was more than one occasion that my 'mechanically…
tennis elbow

Tennis Elbow: 3 types and 3 tips

Peroneal proprioception - Be the guru on ankle stability

Myotherapy is not only about pain relief. It is about function. The chronic instability left in ankles for years after an acute plantar flexion inversion injury is a classic case of myofascial dysfunction with no pain. And it is ridiculously…

Why do I roll my ankle all the time?

Growing pains: fact or fable?

Lower back pain: rule of 10s

Guiding Principle II: Discussion and rationale

This article explores some observations and science that may support the idea that myofascial pain and the sensation of 'stiffness' are curiously connected.  My second guiding principle that I use every day in the assessment and treatment…

Guiding Principle I: Chronic pain is an intelligent messenger

Chronic pain is intentional and intelligent. Conventional wisdom considers pain to almost always be caused by some kind of breakdown in the body's machinery. As such, pain is typically considered to be a direct result of a 'fault' in…

4 tips on preventing your desk-work from giving you a headache!

How do I answer - Myotherapy compared to Physiotherapy? Part II

  '... when answering this question keep it simple and speak about the results not the process. Sometimes patients really do want more detail. So what do you say?' *Note: This post is written for professionals so may be more…