It’s important to recognise that we are far from complete in our knowledge and we know very little about the way about how the body actually works - that’s why I really like reading these studies because they run counter to ‘accepted wisdom’ and challenge our prevailing norms.
Read MoreHead-loading is impossible to perform correctly without achieving an ideal head and neck alignment. Alongside the development of the relevant stabilising muscles that develop, so too does a particular gait pattern which is a third more efficient than our normal walking gait.
Ideal posture is the position from which the musculoskeletal system functions most efficiently and there is a direct relationship between chronic poor posture and chronic pain.
Wellness banking the newest idea to encourage people to spend responsibly all the while improving their physical health. To benefit from wellness banking you must share more personal data with your bank than ever before and allow it to track your movement, exercise routine and diet; the more you’re willing to share, the more rewards you’ll receive.
‘The healthier you get, the more we’re able to offer you. It’s a virtuous circle that’s good for you, good for us, and good for society.’
Read MoreFalls aren’t something that ‘just happen’ because you’re getting older and they’re not ‘inevitable’; they are preventable. With the fall rate in the 40-plus age group up by as much as 20% on the previous generation, researchers speculate it could be due to our increasingly sedentary lifestyles making us less steady on our feet and poor nutrition throughout our life.
Read MoreWalking involves smooth advancement of the body through space with the least mechanical and physiological energy expenditure. If any part of the system is compromised then the body will rely on increasing energy costs to manage this.
Read MoreFauja Singh started running at 84, ran his first marathon aged 89 and retired from competitive running after taking part in the Hong Kong marathon in 2013, five weeks shy of his 102nd birthday.
There are many others like him, so take a look at ten people who are proving that age isn't keeping them from continuing to do what they love and remain active before shuffling off this mortal coil.
In order to fully understand and resolve our knee symptoms, we need to consider rotational stability as well as take into account how things are functioning above and below at the hip and foot. Once we have this information, then it’s possible to integrate and couple movements at the foot, knee and hip which optimises your potential. If you’re unable to fully straighten your legs then your quadriceps are always activated and this means that your body has to rely on muscles and ligaments for support and stability, leading to over-work, pain and increased risk of injury.
Read MoreIt’s completely natural to worry and understandable to feel many strong emotions as we face uncertainty and change. To counter this, we can find many small ways to relieve our feeling of helpless and alleviate the limbo we find ourselves in.
Read MoreThe subtalar joint is sometimes thought of as the 'steering wheel' of the body
It’s the first time the joint has been imaged while rotating in a standing position. Doctors can't currently replace your subtalar joint in the same way they can your hip and the researchers hope it might lead to more tailored treatments for ankle problems, like the personalised ones currently prescribed for issues with hips and knees.
The 2010’s brought functional and natural movement into the mainstream thanks to people like Ido Portal, Katy Bowman and Gray Cook and the good old-fashioned squat made a comeback. The Paleo and Rewilding movements found a home on Instagram and squatting, like so many things in modern life, has become another way to virtue signal.
Here’s my current AiM inspired thoughts.
What we do impacts how well we can do it - the use it or lose it law that sensory input drives motor output.
Changes occur mainly in the brain, not in the muscles; skill learning and memory alter the information that the brain sends out to the muscles, thereby changing the movements that are produced.
Steroid injections into joints are widely used to treat problems such as joint pain, osteoarthritis, sciatica and inflammatory bowel disease and a new study has found that the steroid injections could speed up a joint's disintegration and force patients to have total knee or hip replacements.
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