CrossFit: Good Thing or Bad Thing???
One of the best things about CrossFit, besides giving us lots of business… That’s a joke I do during my weekend course when I get onto the discussion of power lifts for the general...
Author: Erik Meira
Doesn’t the Emperor have some nice new clothes?
In The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen, the Emperor hires two weavers to make him a new suit of clothing. The weavers provide no actual clothes but swindle the Emperor by telling him that the “fabric” is...
Is pain what brought the patient in? Kind of, but not exactly…
Many times when I’m discussing placebo and specific effects, physical therapists will say, “The patient doesn’t care. They just want less pain. We should give them less pain even if it’s temporary and the treatment...
What Is Science and Why Do Medical Providers Suck At It?
It has been said that medicine skipped The Enlightenment since it was already a fully established profession at that time. Where the likes of Newton, Hooke, Huygens, etc. evolved “Natural Philosophy” into the sciences of physics,...
Injury Prevention and Variation of Movement
There is a lot of talk in the media about preventing injuries during sports. A lot of that talk revolves around “fixing faulty mechanics” and “moving the right way” in order to prevent injuries,...
How to Fool a Smart Person
Wisdom is the love of truth. Intelligence and spiritedness can exist without it. Without wisdom, if some proposition floods their sense of beauty, they will believe it with all their heart and soul, and...
What Comedy Can Teach Us About Critical Thinking
Over the years I have learned to use sense of humor as a litmus test for critical thinking. When I meet someone who takes everything very seriously and lacks any kind of sense of...
I’m a Recovering Functional Exercise Addict
“Hi. My name is Erik Meira and I’m addicted to ‘function’.” “Hi Eric!” “[Mumbles] That’s weird, you misspelled my name in my own blog but whatever. [Louder] It has been over 10 years since...
Staying Current
Hands down the most common question I field is this: How does one stay current on the research? The answer is easy. Read everything that has ever been published from cover to cover, analyzing the...
Simple Is Hard
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein Something I have noticed over the years is that physical therapists like to make things a lot more complicated...