My Favourite Resource
SaveYourself.ca publishes many free articles of interest to any curious doctor or therapist. Many of them are quite controversial (and interesting), but all of them are thoroughly referenced. For instance, according to Mr. Ingraham, research increasingly shows that a stretching habit isn’t good for warmup, injury prevention, preventing muscle soreness, or even for flexibility, and he also has a large and advanced article about the science of how stretching may (or may not) affect myofascial trigger points. In “(Almost) Never Ice Low Back Pain!”, he explains a common and important exception to conventional wisdom about icing and heating injuries; he also explains that there is no evidence or reason to believe that bathing in Epsom salts aids recovery from muscle soreness or injuries. Here are several others that stand out:
- Your Back Is Not “Out” and Your Leg Length is Fine — The story of the obsession with crookedness in the physical therapies
- Natural Imperfection — Evolution doesn’t care if you have back pain … just as long as you can breed
- 9 Surprising Ways to Hurt — Understanding pain when there is no obvious explanation
- No MRI, Please! — New medical guidelines “strongly” discourage the use of MRI and X-ray in diagnosing low back pain in the early stages
- Alternative to What? — Alternative health care professionals need to decide what they are really the alternative to
- What Happened To My Barber? — Upper cervical instability causes severe dizziness and vomiting after massage therapy, with lessons for health care consumers
- Does Chiropractic Work? — Notes from a science-minded massage therapist who gets asked about it every day
- Back Pain and Other Hazards of Sitting In Chairs (Way) Too Much — Recent personal experience proves that a lot of sitting actually is as risky as I’ve been telling my clients all these years
SaveYourself.ca also has an actual readers’ guide for the site just for professional visitors, with a lot more links.
