In this episode of billy does a thing on Youtube, I made a Youtube play button out of paper to celebrate reaching 100 subs as well as responding to some of the questions on my previous videos.
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I came across this award-winning innovative floor chair recently and it’s a great idea for people who are new to floor sitting and feel they are too uncomfortable without back support.
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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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Start the new decade with a bracing swim!
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Chaos gets a bad rap these days, people normally think of the apocalypse or a household with a new born baby. But can chaos in your movement have a positive effect on your life, and is it possible to implement it safely. Find out in this exciting episode of Billy's Ramblings.
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Have you tried every treatment for your chronic pain and nothing has worked?
Admit it, you hoped that you could pay someone to fix you and all the years of pain would melt away after an hour’s treatment.
Change doesn’t happen overnight - we need to get down to the coal face and make those shifts, show up for ourselves and commit to doing the work to see the results.
‘Should I get rid of my insoles?’ is a common question I get asked and, to save you the trouble of reading this, my answer is, ‘it depends’. Not very helpful, I know, I prefer to encourage clients think critically and make their own informed decisions. In a culture where we’ve been brought up to defer to authority it can be hard to form our own opinions and stick to them.
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There’s an underlying theme that I notice the more I study and it’s that however much it may look like things stay the same, they really don’t. In the same way that water erodes rock, so forces gradually shape us. We may find ourselves falling back on tired-old pronouncements but if we take the time to trace things back we can see that it is often our actions (or inactions) that have contributed to where we find ourselves in this moment.
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An interesting study was published this month which has shed light on the process of joint tissue repair and regeneration in humans which mirrors the ability of zebrafish and salamander to regrow limbs. Our current understanding is that human cartilage cannot regenerate itself, or at least, only to a very limited degree and is why repetitive joint injuries often lead to the breakdown of cartilage and eventually, osteoarthritis.
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The definitive list of all the barefoot and minimal shoes that can be bought or shipped to the UK.
I was really impressed by the level of diversity and choice out there and was pleased to see so many companies who make handmade shoes have added the choice of Vibram soles, making it easier than ever to find the perfect style that suits you.