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 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…
Mon Jan 2nd @ 6:30am
Biotensegrity — The physics of anatomy and how living things are able to move and maintain their shapes. Read more…
Thu Dec 22nd @ 6:00am
How smart is your right foot? — An interesting coordination phenomenon. Read more…
Thu Dec 22nd @ 6:00am
The view from nowhere — Objectivity is highly over-rated as a journalistic virtue. Read more…
Thu Dec 22nd @ 6:00am
We’re gonna tinker with your ticker! — 15-second Simpsons clip that captures the spirit of my career. Read more…
Mon Dec 19th @ 6:45am
Does spinal function improve in low back pain patients who exercise? — Another core assumption about core training is put to a reasonable test Read more…
Mon Dec 19th @ 6:45am
You won’t “go to pot” while resting from an injury! — Answering a common objection to resting as an important (and under-emphasized) rehabilitation strategy Read more…
Thu Dec 15th @ 5:00am
What is the difference between a ‘confidence cure’ and a mere placebo? — The beauty of a real confidence cure is that you get an extremely robust therapeutic effect that is much less likely to be taken away from you later by the discovery that you were being ripped off or lied to. Read more…
Thu Dec 15th @ 5:00am
Sweat Science — Great exercise science blog, plus a terrific new book Read more…
Tue Dec 13th @ 9:00am
Competition for my iliotibial band syndrome book? — Scammy new Amazon ebook contains only “a few sentences” about IT band syndrome Read more…
Mon Dec 12th @ 6:45am
Three weird neck pain items — The risks of head banging, circus-freak neck anatomy, and the true meaning of subluxation Read more…
Wed Dec 7th @ 7:00am
Wed Dec 7th @ 7:00am
Laura Allen, Massage Therapist, on Toxins & Massage — Read more…
Fri Dec 2nd @ 7:00am
Can stretching “align” the fibres of tendons? — A reader was curious, so I did some educated guessing Read more…
Thu Dec 1st @ 7:30am
Stretching experiment article now available in audio — Read more…