Archive for April 2024

A Physiotherapy colleague that I respect recently told me that the director of her Physiotherapy School in the UK promoted this adage passionately. My colleague reports that since then she still “can’t stop telling people (in the bank) this” as she presumably comments out loud on the bank customers’ apparent lack of movement! Having said…

Every day in my clinic I teach clients about abdominal muscles. Very few people realise the extent of the architecture in our abdominal area. Most people assume we have only one abdominal muscle, the strength of which is indicated by the presence of a 6 – pack or the ability to 100 sit-ups or crunches.…

Most days at least one patient will advise me that they do not have a “core”, and someone; their trainer, their physiotherapist, their spouse has told them that and THAT being the reason for their pain. The reality is that most people do not understand what this implies except some vague concept that they must…

Have you ever thought about how you move or stand up? I am passionate about muscles, and in how they support us and move us! My ‘life’s work’ to date has focused on trying to understand this connection. In the 1980s I studied Physical Education at the University of Western Ontario and Physiotherapy at the…