| How we work, TX - Neck & Eyes, TX - Shoulders, Arms, Wrists & Hands
In clinic we always release a tight area with the intention of making somewhere else stronger! Sometimes, about 5% of the time, in my experience, the area which needs release is where the pain is being experienced. The other 95% is spent understanding that the patterns of compensation in our body’s run deep and it…
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Sometimes the pain is just so severe when someone comes to see me there’s no way we can do any neurological testing. The positions needed for the manual muscle testing are excruciating, if not impossible to achieve, and / or they are limbic (see my bucket post) which means we can’t even use indicator testing….
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When you get an unexpected call from a client after their Pilates class it’s not usually good news. The excitement down the end of the phone was infectious, breathing drills had helped the core engage, which meant the class was a lot easier, and the other HW meant they could now get their arm flat…
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It shall, for ever more, be known as “the turkey incident” 🧐 You know how it is, when you’re catering for a large number of people, you need an impossibly big bird, 🦃 which, if you’re lucky will just about fit in your oven. That’s how today’s case review started. As they were trying to…
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| TX - Shoulders, Arms, Wrists & Hands
A left handed client attended clinic because they’d been experiencing some pain in their right shoulder area. I asked if anything in their normal routine had changed. Nothing much, but they’d been playing more ice hockey than usual. 🏒 We looked at the drills they’d been doing. It turned out the manager had moved the…
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Spent the evening watching my first ice hockey match. It’s really quite exciting: high paced, tactical, they even get their handbags out every now and again! I went to see one of my clients play. They came to clinic the other day having taken a puck, full pelt, to the manubrium (top of the sternum,…
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| TX - Scars, TX - Shoulders, Arms, Wrists & Hands
A client presented in clinic unable to lift their coffee cup in the morning 😳 This is no laughing matter! It’s the latter end of rehabbing left elbow pain from an incident at the stables. The arm is mostly better but still painful when holding / lifting a coffee cup in the morning. We were…
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Whilst most normal people are winding down from the week, or prepping for the coming week, I’m getting my geek on trying to explain why we’re doing what we’re doing in clinic for one of my clients. It’s actually pretty relevant to lots of people, so I thought I’d post the factual stuff on here…
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| How we work, TX - Scars, TX - Shoulders, Arms, Wrists & Hands
A client returned to clinic after taking on and assimilating the corrections from the last session. Happy days 🤩 Today as part of their treatment plan we were looking at the long kinetic chains and using perturbation tests to do that. It’s not exhaustive, but in clinic we look at 16 points on the body…
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Client presented with severe pains in both arms, aching in both legs and feeling generally fatigued. Those therapists among you, or long time readers will suspect their core and breathing systems weren’t working properly – and you’d be right! (The clue was everything was bilateral in nature) There have been lots of abdominal suregeries and…
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