A narrow spinal canal
Why the legs give up when walking and work again when sitting – and why surgery is a good option but not a necessity.
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Arthrogenic muscle inhibition
Why the thigh will not fire after injury, osteoarthritis or a knee replacement even though the muscle is there – and in what order it comes back.
Read more →Assessing the risk of falling
How accurate the tests are, what your fall count reveals and what a good assessment looks for.
Read more →Back pain
What really helps with persistent back pain.
Read more →Building muscle
What a week in bed costs, why «8 to 12 repetitions» is out of date – and how to choose exercises so the muscle really grows.
Read more →Cognitive Functional Therapy
The approach for back pain that has lasted for months: what happens in the sessions, what the studies show – and where the limits lie.
Read more →Concussion
What matters in the first days – and how to get back to everyday life, work and sport.
Read more →Dizziness
How physiotherapy helps with dizziness.
Coming soonEndurance training
Why lactate is not a waste product, what LT1 and LT2 mean – and how to tell without a laboratory whether your easy days are really easy.
Read more →Fall prevention
Staying steady with strength and balance – what really lowers the risk.
Read more →Frailty
When small stresses have big consequences – how to spot frailty and what rebuilds the reserves.
Read more →Frozen shoulder
Why the shoulder freezes, how long it really takes – and why stretching hard in the painful phase speeds up nothing.
Read more →Gait stability
What makes your step secure, what walking speed, gait variability and the Lyapunov exponent measure – and which training works.
Read more →Hamstrings
Why injuries at the back of the thigh come back so often – and what really secures the way back.
Read more →Herniated disc
Why the outlook is usually good, what a scan really tells you – and when surgery is the right decision.
Read more →Hip osteoarthritis
Why the pain sits in the groin, why the X-ray says little – and how large the effect of exercise really is.
Read more →Knee replacement
Surgery takes away the pain – the strength has to be fetched back. What really counts before and after.
Read more →Leaving hospital weaker
Why older people lose independence in hospital – and what prevents it.
Read more →Losing weight without losing muscle
Every weight loss also costs muscle – all the more with the weight-loss injections. What training changes about that, and how much of it is needed.
Read more →Lymphatic drainage
What the lymphatic system does, when swelling is lymphoedema – and why compression and exercise carry more than the hands-on technique.
Read more →Massage
What massage really does – and what it does not. The evidence at a glance.
Read more →Meniscal tear
Why the same finding calls for two very different treatments – and what changes after a partial removal compared with a repair.
Read more →Multiple sclerosis
Why «take it easy» is out of date – and what exercise really achieves for fatigue, walking and balance.
Read more →Muscle
What your muscles do besides moving you: take up sugar, store protein, release messengers – and how much of that is actually proven in humans.
Read more →Muscle lost in days, rebuilt in weeks
What a week in bed, in a cast, in intensive care or in space costs in muscle – and how long the way back takes, with everyday activity alone and with training.
Read more →Muscle strength over the years
When strength peaks, how much is lost per year – and why a week of flu in bed costs in days what otherwise takes years.
Read more →Muscle weakness in older age
What sarcopenia is, how to spot it – and what is proven to help.
Read more →Osteoarthritis
Why scans often mislead – and why movement and exercise really help.
Read more →Osteoporosis
How strength training strengthens your bones.
Coming soonPain on the outside of the hip
Why bursitis turned out to be a tendon problem, which positions press on it – and what actually helped in the studies.
Read more →Parkinson's
Why not every parkinsonism is the same – and what exercise achieves where the medication is weak.
Read more →Physiotherapy after a cerebellar stroke
The strength is there, the coordination is missing: why practice here uses a mirror and a line on the floor, which site calls for which programme, and how to tell there is progress.
Read more →Repetitions in reserve
How to dose your effort in strength training, how accurately people estimate their reserve, what the critics object to – and how to calibrate your own sense of it.
Read more →Running drills: changing the step
How the classic running drills are built up, which single change suits which complaint – and what happens to running technique in older age.
Read more →Shoulder pain
Why an MRI finds something in almost every shoulder, what exercise really achieves – and why surgery under the acromion has had its day.
Read more →Strength training
What makes a programme work, how little of it is needed – and why most of what people argue about makes no difference.
Read more →Stretching
What stretching really does, what is wrongly credited to it – and when it is exactly right.
Read more →Stroke in the cerebellum
Cerebellar infarction and cerebellar haemorrhage: dizziness, unsteady walking and inaccurate movement instead of paralysis – how the two forms differ, what therapy does and how the course unfolds.
Read more →Testing instead of guessing
Why your watch's heart-rate formulas are right for groups and miss individual people by 20 beats – and which tests are genuinely worth it in recreational and health-oriented sport.
Read more →Thinking and stepping training
Stepping on a signal, walking with a thinking task – what the studies show, and five exercises for home.
Read more →Warming up and your cartilage
What actually gets warm, why joint fluid alone does not explain it – and what a regular programme really protects your knee from.
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