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May 2020 Low Back Rehab: How Hard Should It Go? Intensity of exercise is a potent factor in the rate and extent of progress one makes in general fitness and in some injury recoveries. But this has not been thoroughly tested in chronic non-specific low back pain (CNSLBP.) THis is a topic we’ve coveredRead More
A provocative article in the New York Times back in December 2019 offers a layman’s perspective on pain that raises more questions than it answers. In brief, it posits the prevalent theory that the brain perceives some ‘sensation’ and then labels it ‘pain’ in some instances and some people but not in all. So let’sRead More
February 2020 What Would Tiger Do? Preventing golf injuries and improving performance are the main reasons golfers would even consider stretching. A literature review aimed to determine (1) what are golfers’ current warm-up routines; (2) if there’s an association between these and injury risk; and, (3) whether warm-ups help golf performance. The study designRead More
An interesting article in the Times debated, or better still explicated, the contention many athletic and competitive people make when they say they love exercising through the pain. It concludes that pain, as some describe it, is not really pain as our nervous system might describe it: One Runner’s Suffering Is Another’s Inspiration Having trainedRead More
