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...
Top 5 Treatment Fallacies
Roughly 2300 years ago, Aristotle came up with his list of logical fallacies in his treatise on logic and argument, The Organon. Fallacies are tricks that your mind is likely to play on you to make...
I work in sports medicine so I am familiar with depression
Since the recent news that Robin Williams has died of depression, everyone and their mother is writing a blogpost in response. This is no exception (I’m sure my mother will be writing a similar post on...
Baby and the Bathwater
Adam Meakins (please follow him on Twitter) wrote a recent post about therapists getting a little too focused on the psychosocial components of pain forgetting that there can be and often is a biological...
Using the Force to Understand Injuries
There has been a lot of talk lately about how mechanics can play a role in injuries. This is especially true in lower extremity injuries such as patellofemoral pain and ACL tears. I’m in...
Does God Exist?
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??? IS HE REALLY GOING TO TAKE ON THIS QUESTION??? Easy now, fella. This is just a thought experiment about scientific questions and has almost nothing to do with God....