Recurrence of Low Back Pain is Common ... 🔺Low back pain does have a good natural history with many recovering over a 4-6 week period. However many go on and develop recurrent symptoms. 🔺This current study looked at two main questions: 1️⃣ How commonly and how quickly does LBP reoccur in a cohort of people who have recently recovered from an episode of LBP? 2️⃣ What...

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Disc Herniation Regression

Just because the herniation is big on the MRI, doesn't mean they can't recover.#repost InfoPhysiotherapy.Spontaneous regression of herniated disc tissue can occur, and can completely resolve after conservative treatment! 👌.Photo Credit: Cor-Kinetic.📕Article abstract by Chiu et al., 2015:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25009200 ...

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Information About the Human Body.

Number of bones - 206Number of muscles - 639Number of kidneys - 2Number of milk teeth - 20Number of ribs - 24 (12 pairs)Number of chambers in the heart - 4Largest artery - AortaNormal Blood pressure - 120 - 80Ph of blood - 7.4Number of vertebrae in the spine - 33Number of vertebrae in the Neck - 7No of bones in middle Ear - 6Number of bones in Face - 14Number...

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THE MYTH OF CORE STABILITY - FREE FULL TEXT REVIEW

Great full text review paper below outlining why core stability exercises, in particular transverses abdominis (TrA) exercises, are likely misguided for people with low back pain.The paper examines:1 The role of TrA as a stabiliser and relation to back pain: is TrA that important for stabilisation?2 The TrA timing issue: what are the timing differences between asymptomatic individuals and patients with LBP? Can timing change by core stability (CS)...

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10 points highlight what doesn’t improve tendinopathy of the lower limb.

1️⃣Don’t rest completely.➖Treatment should initially reduce painful, high tendon load movements and introduce beneficial loads (eg, isometrics, heavy-slow resistance)..2️⃣Don’t prescribe incorrect exercise.➖To be effective tendons must be loaded quickly with spring-like Exs, such as:JumpingChanging directionSprinting.3️⃣Don’t rely on passive treatments.➖Passive treatments...

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"Good Posture" myth.

Are you sitting up straight when reading this? You might want to think again! More evidence against the "good posture" myth. i) Slouching improves disc height & disc hydration.ii) A trend toward increased disc height with more lumbar flexion! https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/artic…/pii/S0003687017301709 Via Dr. Derek Griffin ...

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When to apply Ice or Heat for a Muscle Pain?

When to use ICE: Ice should ALWAYS be used after an acute injury or trauma to any other area of the body.Ice is a potent vasoconstrictor: cold causes the muscles of the body those lining the walls of our blood vessels, to constrict decreasing the swelling and pain associated with the body’s inflammatory response. As the vessels constrict, fewer inflammatory mediators seep...

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