Trying to decide on a title for this blog has been difficult. Hopefully when all is revealed the somewhat disjointed...
The osteopath, the chiropractor(s), Disneyland – and 32 years of friendship – a sound track for the rhythm of life
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Is a patient’s posture relevant to their symptoms ….or is that concept out of date?
In a recent facebook discussion/thread, in response to a question, I described a potential sequence that might...
“A Critical Evaluation of Quintner et al: Missing the Point ” – OPEN ACCESS
The Trigger Point Debate - continued. OPEN ACCESS has been granted by Elsevier to the Dommerholt/Gerwin paper...
Better bladder control and less back pain, through better breathing!
The 'cylinder' that houses the abdominal and pelvic organs has a top (diaphragm) and a bottom (pelvic floor) as well as (ideally) strong abdominal and spinal/trunk muscles at the front, sides and back, that together create stability for the spine and limbs.Imbalance...
Pelvic pain, fascial treatment methods… and now migraine….the fruits of Summer 2010
Photo of garden looking toward fruit trees and grapevinesCover of the 3rd edition of Modern NMTA long and fruitful (in every sense) summer in Corfu is slowly coming towards it's cyclical end.Today, there was a slight touch of autumn in the air, and figs from the tree,...
Trigger points and Pilates: the most downloaded topics
These images are from the paper by Shah & Gilliams which is in the 'Most Cited" list, below. They show a schematic diagram of a trigger point and the dialysis instrument which is used to analyse the environmental mileu of these entities. I have been browsing through a...
Sport and chronic pelvic pain
This posting draws on notes I am making for a section of a new book on chronic pelvic pain that I am coediting, and part writing. It relates to the effects of particular sports on the evolution of pelvic pain…. Particularly when excessive training takes place in...
British Medical Journal describes David Simons early space adventure
It's high summer and I'm beavering away in Corfu to complete submission of a new book - Physical Medicine Approaches to Chronic Pelvic Pain (due for publication by Elsevier in 2011 (coedited with Ruth Lovegrove PT PhD, and with approximately 20 of the (very, very)...
Modern Neuromuscular Techniques…3rd edition due out soon
Around 30 years ago a slim book I had written, entitled Neuromuscular Technique, was published by Thorsons, a small publishing house in Wellingborough, Northants. A few years later that book morphed into a larger title Soft Tissue Manipulation (STM) which somehow...
JBMTs Top 25 Downloads: January to March 2010: emerging trends…..
Every 3 months I receive an update on the most popular downloads (from Elsevier's ScienceDirect) of JBMT articles for a three month period. Around 12,000 articles a month are downloaded, and the topics selected tell me a great deal about what's of interest to readers,...
Manual approaches to pelvic pain related fascial and myofascial structures
NOTE: For reasons of copyright I cannot publish the figures/images that illustrate this posting - so instead am offering a glimpse of our Corfu garden..... and - to satify his many fans - a recent snap of Dumbo, our highly intelligent, loveable, stubborn, miniature...
Symposium on soft tissue dysfunction and treatment will honour David Simons
For details of this symposium - during which David Simons will be honoured please go to this website http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/musclepain/Click Here for more on David Simons
David G Simons MD 1922-2010
David Simons MD, died yesterday - 5th April 2010 Friend, mentor, teacher, scholar, and an inspirational guide in the search for understanding somatic pain - David will be sorely missed Early in his career, David Simons was an aerospace physician, involved in the study...
Muscle Energy Technique: An Interview with "El Fisioterapeuta" Madrid
The Biomechanics of Spinal Manipulation Some of the book titles mentioned below, plus a Madrid classroom snap of some of the physiotherapist participants, practicing MET for spinal restrictions. It's Easter, and I'm safely back in Corfu, where these holidays are taken...
David Simons’ life is drawing to an end
This brief post is to ask all who visit it to have in their prayers and thoughts the final days of a great man, David SimonsA message from his family and carers has been widely disseminated, asking for our thoughts to be with him and his family as he nears the end of...