Stop Knee Pain With These Exercises Strengthen the knees The secret to strong knees is strengthening the muscles that (i)stabilise your knees and (ii)help your knees track straight. (We don’t want the knees to angle in too much or out). Here’s a video on the best way to do that… for both currently painful knees…
The clicks and pops people can sometimes hear in the body aren’t all joints cracking.Some of them are joints releasing and other similar-sounding noises are tendons flicking past bones. Most of these noises are incidental, BUT they can be good for you or bad for you. This depends on how often they pop and where…
Massage Gun. Are they worth it? Percussion massage guns are very popular at the moment. But it is worth buying one? Do they work? What do they actually do? PROS OF PERCUSSION MASSAGE: INCREASES BLOOD FLOW. Percussion over a muscle increases the blood flow to the muscle and the extra blood flow brings more oxygen…
How to fix pain between the shoulder blades It’s amazing how many people come in to see me with a pain between the shoulder blades on one side, over the Rhomboid muscle. They usually describe it as a ‘knife in the back’ type pain, or a burning tightness. Most people think that it’s the muscles…
Is the Multifidus the key to stopping chronic lumbar pain? Scientists have recently discovered something very interesting about chronic, recurrent low back pain. One muscle tends to atrophy in people whose low back pain keeps coming back: the multifidus muscle. It appears to waste away from disuse, predisposing people to endless bouts of low back…
How to use a massage gun on your feet. Percussion massage on the sole of the foot is a fabulous way to relieve sore feet and to relax overworked foot muscles. While we are on our feet all day the muscles that support the arch and keep us balanced are working hard, and they can…
Increased Lower Back Arch Everyone should have a bit of a forward tilt to their pelvis—it’s part of the shock absorption of the spine—but if the tilt is excessive, it increases the arch of the lumbar spine too much, compressing the spinal joints. Compacted joints can cause inflammation, lumbar pain, and even sciatica or degeneration…
How To Fix Kneecap Pain Pain at the front of the knee, underneath, over or above the kneecap is really common and usually is very easy to fix with a couple of exercises. You can do it at home and the results are surprisingly quick—within a day or two in many cases. The patella, or…
Upper Lumbar Pain On One Side Flank pain at the side of the lower back always needs to be checked out carefully by a professional to see if it’s kidney related. But in many cases it’s actually a pain that comes from the lower back. Certain positions can overstretch muscles on the side of the…
How To Avoid Pain In The Upper Cervicals The upper part of the neck is where most of the rotation occurs. There’s no disc between the top two vertebra and this allows for much more rotation than other levels of the neck. The top vertebrae actually pivots around the second vertebra. However, if we spend…
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