Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.
Hitting The Rockbottom
“The more you get hit, the harder you fight. I get it. Only now you are taking way too many hits before you get off.”
Why things hurt?
All of us experience pain. It is your body and it is your business to know what is going on in your body. I firmly believe in Einstein's quote that 'if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough'. Here we go with a simple explanation on pain.
Importance of Pre-Hab before Surgery
Does getting a surgery mean that there is no need to do pre-hab before surgery and rehab post surgery? You aren't only an injured body part. You are a lot more than that. Think of the whole you. If you respect yourself, doctors and the rest will follow too.
Shoulder pain: Does it really need a tagline?
Do not blame the name, Understand the game.
A lot has been said about diagnosing shoulder pain where the focus is too much on identifying the structural damage. Whereas when it comes to managing pain, it has been seen that the symptoms are produced by multiple factors including posture, mobility and muscular strength in and around shoulder joint.
Pain can be a disease too, not a symptom alone
We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, in a TedTalk Dr Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of chronic pain, and reviews the facts we're just learning about how it works and how to treat it.
Fear of fall is worse than the fall itself
I have been telling my patients for a while now that fear of pain is far worse than pain itself. I would say that based on some personal experience but a lot more based on what I was told by my amazing teachers over the years.
'(Expecting) Instant relief is a problem with patients and doctors'
'I have a reputation of being invited to medical conferences just once and never again. That's because I call a spade a spade.': Interview of the author of The Pain Handbook: A non-surgical way to managing back, neck and knee pain, with DNA newspaper.
It Starts Now - Alan Watts
Things are not explained by the past. They’re explained by what happens now. That creates the past. And it begins here.
Stretching HAMSTRINGS the right way
Most people think they are stretching their hamstrings when they have their legs up at a higher platform and are trying to touch their toes or some such thing. They do it only because the guy or gal next to them is doing the same. Stop copy. Think logically. That stretch is excellent at causing pain in the back and down the leg that you didn't have before.
Sleep Pain Free
One-fourth to one-third of your life is spent sleeping. You better do it right.