Understanding Pain
Understanding how pain works and the impact that it has on an individual is an area that continues to fascinate me. I spent many years working in the field of chronic pain, understanding the impact that it can have on anyone’s quality of life. Pain research is an on-going development in the world of medicine…
Load Management
Load Management A tendon is the part of the muscle that attaches onto the bone. It is therefore part of the muscular structure, but its physiology is very different from a muscle. Tendons are fibrous connective tissue with the main function of transmitting the mechanical force of the muscle to the bone. This fibrous tissue…
Managing a Flare-up
Most of us have a repertoire of things we might do when we are unwell, have a headache, an ache somewhere. But sometimes when pain (wherever in the body) leads to us being unable to move, unable to sleep, we have a tendency to over-think. The system goes into panic and we develop brain-fog. Pain…