Are core exercises overrated for back pain?

If you’ve seen a physiotherapist, chiropractor or osteopath, they might’ve assessed your sacroiliac joints, like this:   After testing, they might’ve diagnosed you with sacroiliac joint dysfunction and purported that your pelvis is unstable, out...

For a long time, the human spine has been viewed as a machine: if you overloaded it with a single excessive force or repetitive loading, there would be ‘wear and tear’ (structural damage, e.g., disc...

Your health practitioner powerfully influences your health beliefs and attitudes.1 You should be able to trust what they say because they should know more and they usually want to help you. However, good intentions don’t always...

Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of disability globally and tends to be associated with costly, ineffective and sometimes harmful healthcare. Unhelpful beliefs about LBP are likely a strong driver in this disability...

Why is muscle soreness after exercising our arms and legs viewed as good... But muscle soreness after exercising our lower back viewed as bad?

Is there strong evidence to support common posture beliefs?

Because of social media, there’s a multitude of information circulating out there about back pain. However, a lot of this information isn’t supported by strong research. Here are 10 facts every person should know about...

If you browse social media, you would have come across many things that claim to ‘fix’ back pain, from self-massage tools and posture correctors to that one magic exercise you ‘need’ to do. You might...