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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...

You might have heard of ‘placebo’ but what about ‘nocebo’?

‘Incorrect’ technique is a common concern for many people. Part of this concern stems from well-intentioned health and fitness professionals claiming that there’s an optimal way to move to treat or prevent pain/injury.

Exercise-associated muscle cramps are painful, involuntary contractions of muscles during or shortly after exercise. These cramps usually occur in muscles that span multiple joints and are frequently used during exercise, such as the calves. How...

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...

Sleep makes up a large proportion of our lives. If we assumed that you spent 8 hours per day sleeping or trying to sleep, then sleep would account for one-third of your lifetime; to put...

Because of the internet, an overwhelming amount of information on any health topic is at your fingertips. Due to the sheer volume of information, it can be difficult to know who to trust and what...

When you’re recovering from pain or injury, you’d probably prefer to get better each day if you could. However, recovery tends not to be smooth sailing back to where you were before.

How do you scare someone with osteoarthritis (unnecessarily)? Tell them things like: ‘You’ve got bone on bone.’ ‘It’s caused by wear and tear.’ ‘It’s only going to get worse.’ Is it time to stop saying such...