What is Whiplash? When involved in a car accident, whether if you see it coming or not, there will be forces involved that will make your body move suddenly in a specific way due to the sudden acceleration caused by the force applied by the other vehicle against your or even by the different ways your vehicle can be spinning. Not to mention if you’re a motorcyclist. We should also consider the fact that the head is the heaviest part...
I can’t improve my plantar fasciitis! Plantar fasciitis can sometimes be a very stubborn condition. First of all, we need to understand that, as per the last article, tendons change and adapt in reaction to load. However, in part due to their poor blood supply, these changes take longer to occur when compared to a muscle. This means that most of the times the condition is not that stubborn, but it is us who aren’t patient enough to take the...
Introduction As we all know, OsteoArthritis (or simply Arthritis) is one of the most disabling conditions around the globe1. It mostly affects joints such as knees, hips and lower back, leading to a decrease in physical activity levels, most of the times down to uncertainty on whether exercising is good, or if it will make things worse instead. Re-Phrase And Re-Visualise
Overview As we've discussed in the last post, in the world we live in, with regular use of smartphones and computers, our necks are put under daily loads of several different kinds that sometimes may contribute to the onset of some symptoms. The neck functionally allows us to move our head within a significant range of movement, so that we can see and interact with the world and environment we are in, at the same time we keep eyes in...
After millions and millions of years of evolution and natural selection, our bodies were becoming really well adapted to the challenges and tasks of the physical world we live in but, then, came technology and the office-based work, looking at a screen for hours... every day. More recently, even the computer seems to start to be ditched of our lives, as many things we use it for can be accessed anytime and anywhere just by reaching for our smartphones. Whether...