Pain & Injury
Although pain is advantageous for protection and survival, persistent pain carries no real biological purpose - yet is sadly highly prevalent in the population. I'm not going to dwell on epidemiology. I want to tie in nicely the importance of clinician...
Ah, the age old question: are crunches bad for your back? I firmly believe there is no such thing as a 'bad' exercise. While some exercises may not be a good fit for someone (at a particular moment in time), that doesn't make them bad. In fact, an exercise that...
Should I exercise with an injury? In this article we answer this age old question and provide some practical tips that you can implement immediately. Training is going well. You are getting in the gym a few times per week, the weights are going up, and you are...
Following on from the great work from my colleague Dr. Nathan Harten's last blog; I will continue educating you on the latest neuroscience on persistent pain You may have been allluded to our brains wonderful capacity to protect to a ‘perceived’ threat....
The deadlift is one hell of an exercise -- but does that mean you should deadlift from the floor? Lets find out. In my opinion, the deadlift is one of the best exercises on the planet. I mean, when it comes to whole body strength, it is king: It works every single...
Did you know that getting older doesn't have to mean losing your balance? In fact, you can actually use strength training to improve balance! When I was a little kid, I couldn't think of anything worse than getting older. In fact, it kind of terrified me. While I...
How hard should I work out? There is a common misconception within the health industry that to see results, you need to go balls to the wall every single session. That a sign of muscle soreness is the sign of a good workout. That being on your haunches and vomiting...
Our list of the 3 best core exercises offer the perfect way to keep your spine health and your abdominal muscles strong and functioning well - no matter where you are! Those of you who have had some previous ‘iNform experience’ would be fully aware that we tend to...
I often get asked how does the brain deal with pain? The brain is a highly complex organ so lets not think of the brain regions as an entity; more like a highway of networks communicating. To understand how the brain makes pain, I will use the analogy of networks...
Practical tips to reduce pain Now understanding what pain is and how it protects us is useful, but now I would like to use this information to give some practical tips to reduce pain. In Part 1 of this blog series we learnt that we need pain to survive, to avoid...
