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What a week in bed costs, why «8 to 12 repetitions» is out of date – and how to choose exercises so the muscle really grows.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 →Heat: what really cools your body
Do cold drinks cool you or warm you? What the studies show on drinking, wet skin, fans and foot baths – and when to call 144 in the heat.
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 →Self-efficacy: confidence in what you can do
How confidence in your own abilities relates to the course of pain and ageing, and the steps you can take to build it yourself.
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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