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,...
Category: Interventions
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...
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...
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...
Appropriate Treatment Good; Inappropriate Treatment Bad
Ok. So you know that I don’t like the idea of defining the world as “Good Things” and “Bad Things”. I also generally don’t like politics and advertising. Both have the one goal of...
Why I am not a Manual Therapist
Read that title! Here comes Erik again, with all his manual therapy hate and negativity! *Sigh* This is not an attack on manual therapists, it is a defense of NOT being a manual therapist....