SaveYourself.ca • Sensible advice for aches, pains & injuries
What’s here? Hundreds of self-help articles and several advanced tutorials about common pain problems, readable enough for anyone but heavily referenced for professionals. Pain and therapy science is served up with some sass here. The salamander is a symbol for regeneration and unsolved mysteries of biology. — Paul Ingraham, publisher
8:11 Finally, video! Readers have been asking for years, and I finally started producing videos in the fall of 2011. This one bundles three runner’s knee myths into one video. Watch it! (There are also individual IT band syndrome myth videos. See my YouTube channel for more.)
Mon May 14th @ 7:00am
How tissues adapt to stress — Wolff, Davis, their laws, and provocation therapies Read more…
Mon May 7th @ 7:00am
Water yoga for your lungs — An odd, intense diaphragm exercise that I discovered while trying to treat neck pain underwater Read more…
Mon Apr 30th @ 7:00am
Palpatory pareidolia — Sensory illusions, wishful thinking and palpation pretension in massage and other touchy health care Read more…
Mon Apr 23rd @ 11:00am
Why so negative? Part II — Assume literally “nothing” about treatment ideas Read more…
Mon Apr 16th @ 6:00am
Spinal Fracture Bracing — A personal story, plus a casual tour of the science and biomechanics Read more…
Tue Apr 10th @ 4:00pm
Your brain on water — A simple dunking stops pain in its tracks (for as long as I can hold my breath) Read more…
Mon Apr 2nd @ 7:30am
How many calories is it really? — The dissection and analysis of Sushi Combi B Read more…
Mon Mar 26th @ 8:30am
Why so “negative”? — The ethics, tactics and why of therapy debunking and criticism Read more…
Mon Mar 19th @ 7:30am
Those scary spine models — How hopelessly obsolete clinical ideas persist for years, even decades Read more…
Mon Mar 12th @ 6:00am
When IT band syndrome isn’t a repetitive strain injury — However iliotibial band pain gets its start, the end result is roughly similar, but some cases may involve some interesting biology Read more…
Mon Mar 5th @ 7:00am
The making of a footnote — Many hours of science wrangling to create one small footnote (about hot kneecaps) Read more…
Mon Feb 27th @ 7:00am
How icing works — Some thoughts on what icing is doing to tissue Read more…
Mon Feb 20th @ 7:00am
Trigger point doubts — Why I feel the need to challenge the clinical concept of trigger points Read more…
Mon Feb 6th @ 8:45am
Massage reduces inflammation? — Not so fast! Some interesting new scraps of basic biology evidence are scientific miles way from proof (or explanation) of therapeutic effect. Read more…
Mon Jan 30th @ 7:00am
Evidence accumulating for a better runners knee surgery — An updated report shows excellent results for a new surgical approach to iliotibial band syndrome Read more…
Mon Jan 23rd @ 6:45am
An inflammatory problem, Part II — Achilles tendon hell, editorial embarrassment, and not-so-trivial differences between classic inflammation and tissue degeneration Read more…
Mon Jan 16th @ 7:00am
An inflammatory problem, Part I — Achilles tendon hell, editorial embarrassment, and not-so-trivial differences between classic inflammation and tissue degeneration Read more…
Mon Jan 9th @ 6:00am
Dueling massage anecdotes — A typical testimonial versus my own personal experiment with massage for delayed-onset muscle soreness Read more…
Sat Jan 7th @ 9:00am
About that New York Times “yoga bashing” article — Read more…
Mon Jan 2nd @ 6:30am
Why does exercise often hurt more than it seems like it should? — Exercise makes your immune system feistier, which is good news and bad news. Read more…