On his fantastic website PainScience.com, Paul Ingram has an article “Pain is Weird“. It’s a great article, which I’d recommend reading. (You can also see my articles on chronic pain here and here) But is pain actually weird? Perception is Weird In the article, Ingram cites the following quote: Pain is an opinion on the […]
Maybe pain isn’t so strange after all? Read More »
One may well imagine that pain works a bit like a high-tech house alarm system. A good security system has sensors on all the doors and windows, plus infra-red sensors covering all the rooms. When one of these sensors is tripped by an intruder, the alarm is activated and a siren goes off. It is
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Understanding Back Pain and other Chronic Pain Syndromes My series of posts on chronic back pain and joint pain have been some of my most popular posts, and I’ve had lots of positive feedback from clients and readers who have followed the guidelines I outlined with great success. Over the last year or so however,
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I spotted this study on Chris Highcock’s (author of Hillfit) conditioning research blog the other day and found it very interesting: The health paradox of occupational and leisure-time physical activity I’ve talked before about the importance of attitudes and expectations in determining the effectiveness and outcomes of physical activities, and perhaps this may be one
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In Part I of this series “Is Functional Training a Myth?“, I challenged the conventional wisdom on strength and conditioning routines, and argued that training programs based around free weight exercises such as power lifts, Olympic lifts and other functional exercises do in fact have little transfer to other activities and sports. In short, squatting
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If there is one exercise that is the antithesis of Primal Fitness, it is the stomach crunch. What I can’t understand, is why this ridiculous, ineffective and dangerous exercise simply refuses to die out? I have been working in the fitness industry for the best part of a decade. Over that time I have learnt
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This is an old post – for a more up to date article on back pain/chronic pain please check out this post here. In Part I of this series, we identified the common lifestyle factors that can contribute to back pain, and how to mitigate the damage. In Part II, we looked at how to
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This is an old post – for a more up to date article on back pain/chronic pain please check out this post here. In Part I of this series we looked at how modern lifestyle factors such as prolonged sitting and wearing shoes can lead to back pain. While avoiding becoming desk bound, and going
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This is an old post – for a more up to date article on back pain/chronic pain please check out this post here. Why is it that over 80% of people will suffer from some form of back pain during their lives?  Is it some kind of fundamental flaw in human physiology? Is it some evolutionary trade
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