Drew Hume 
“I keep expecting pain, but it doesn’t arrive, so I feel safe”. This is what one of my clients said the other day in Newfoundland. This brings up so many things to talk about but the bit I would like to focus on right now is that this sensation of safety in your treatments. Safe … Read more
This and “it’s confusing for students when they hear anatomy terms, so it excludes people who don’t know them”, are two things I hear when movement educators are explaining/justifying why they don’t take a&p training. I can see where these ideas come from. And at the same time, I don’t agree with them. They’re largely … Read more
I bet you’ve been told before that “massage is detoxifying”. But is it actually? In short – it’s more likely that it’s the opposite: slightly (and temporarily) toxic! Yep, you read that correctly. Let me explain. Typically when we think of a “toxin” we usually think of substances that we don’t want in our bodies. … Read more
In both movement and manual therapy circles, there are a lot of discussion about pain, pain-avoidance, “listening to your body” and so on as it relates to the “right” way to move or apply manual technique. In this article, I address these ideas with the latest in pain research, which explains to us that this … Read more
For everyone with neck stuff – try this out, let me know how it goes: If you liked this, you might also like this free foot massage tutorial over here!
On so many levels. I don’t just mean the work of due diligence, or of managing fear. Though that’s certainly part of it right now. And I also mean more than working hard to save businesses and livelihoods. Even though that’s also a very real thing. I been thinking a lot lately about the social, … Read more
This image has been doing the rounds on social media the last week or so. And I see that a lot of people are worried or just straight-up scared about the situation. This fear is mostly the result of journalism, rather than the science, so I’d like to take it all a step back and go through and share with you the science of this finding, what it means and also what it doesn’t mean.
This is the first of a series that is designed to target common conditions and “trouble spots” in the body and give you a greater understanding of what could be going on and also providing some tools to help the process of improving function (and how it feels).
Especially in movement education, we hear a lot of talk about how flexibility training can give people longer muscles, like hamstrings for example. But is that actually what’s happening? Let’s zoom in and take a closer look at what flexibility training does.
And it’s a big one. The subject of this post is not only eye-catching, it’s exactly what the world would benefit from on many levels.
Pain is not what you think it is. This article is a culmination of an important email series that tackles some of the most mind-blowing facts about pain! A subject this important and this complex takes time to dissect and present, so even though you’ll need a bit of time here, it’s worth it. Not only will this tutorial help you to understand pain better, as long as you utilize the information within, it should also lead to better self-management of pain.
There’s this concept of “good posture” out there, and we think that working on our posture will solve a lot of our aches and pains. The issue is, the vast majority of postural recommendations are unsupported by research.
Many people suffer from both ganglions and generalized pain in the wrists. The exercises below are designed to help reduce both of these things. These exercises come from personal experience, where my own ganglion cyst in my right wrist has shrunk, and is no longer painful after having done these exercises religiously for a month. I avoided surgery with them (cancelled my appointment)!
With all the texting and typing we do nowadays, there’s really nothing quite like a great hand massage to release the tension we hold there. In fact, the way we carry tension in our hands influences the tension we store in our forearms, shoulders and neck. It can even contribute to tension-headaches. So this is a really worthwhile set of tools to have in your toolkit.
Foot massage can often be underrated. Though there are many of you who no doubt love a foot massage, there are also many people out there who could “take it or leave it”. I used to be one of those people! With this tutorial you can likely change the way they feel about a foot massage 😉 Give them the best foot massage they’ve ever had, from the comfort of your own home.
