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Mobilizing cat 27 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
Perfect little animation to whimsically “demonstrate” mobilizations (dynamic joint mobility drills). Gifs are big files, so this is a tiny version, but zoom for the full size (1.7MB!). Mobilizations ...
Does [favourite massage method] work? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
Q Is there any scientific evidence that my favourite minor massage method really works? A The massage world is fragmented into dozens (even hundreds) of branded methods touted to be better than Swedi...
Enhanced placebos 22 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
If a placebo treatment can do good, how much good will it do when combined with a little real medicine? That’s what I call an enhanced placebo: a treatment that seems much better than it is, because a...
Never give up 22 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
Never give up, because you can recover from damn near anything … if you are patient and methodical. Gene Lawrence, a 74-year-old record-setting powerlifter, tore his quadriceps. Eight months later he’...
Is science your enemy? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
Hint: no (certainly not when properly defined). Todd Hargrove has “noticed that some of my colleagues in the bodywork community are somewhat disapproving of using a scientific approach to understandin...
Wonky knees 20 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
Pal et al. found that one kind of wonkiness (high kneecaps) was fairly strongly associated with another kind (bad tracking), and that this kind of thing was more common in people with knee pain. This ...
Happy traffic stats, ScienceBasedMedicine.org news 20 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
SaveYourself.ca traffic hasn’t dipped under 10,000 visitors/per day in several months now, and is usually over 12,000, which is pushing half a million a year. That’s quite good for an independently ru...
Hooray for thorough massage! 15 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
Here’s a study that compares two kinds of massage for shoulder pain: regular Swedish versus “tensegrity-based” massage, which I have literally never heard of in 15 years of studying massage (although ...
Why are non-USD prices for my e-books so much higher than the going exchange rate? 15 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
I have frowned at this issue off and on for a long time, and finally looked into it more carefully. I didn’t like what I found: customers that pay for my e-books in anything but US dollars get a price...
When to worry about back pain 14 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
Andy Whitfield as Spartacus At his physical peak, not long before getting sick. The first sign of his cancer was steadily worsening back pain. He may have already been in pain at this time. The bark...
