Do you have patients or clients with persistent hip flexor complaints associated with running or walking? It might have nothing…

In my clinic over the years I have seen many hypermobile patients, who have developed chronic pain and reduced function….

After acute low back pain, it is quite common for the protective stiffening response in the trunk and hip muscles…

Walking down hill is a classic provocation of anterior knee pain. Often the focus is on the knee itself, or…

Movement can take us to the source of a problem, rather than chasing symptoms. This week’s inspiration came from a…

Fancy feeling a little easier in your walking or running? So many people struggle to find greater ease in their…

I see so many people who have trained and practiced exercises incredibly diligently, only to find that very little changes….

Complex doesn’t need to be complicated. It isn’t unusual for people to feel the load of resisted pushing exclusively in…

Patient education is seen as a key component of a treatment, yet with virtually no training in education itself, are…

Let’s talk upper quadrant. After a very long period of strain, before and after Dad’s passing, Mum is starting to…

Do we call it “non-compliance”, with its overtones of judgement, for apparent resistance, lack of engagement or even laziness? Or…

How does learning JEMS® help you to work effectively within the biopsychosocial approach? A recent paper by Mescouto et al…

Have you ever asked a patient or client, “How does that feel?” when they are performing an exercise? What if…

Uncertainty isn’t fun. It makes us feel doubt, and doubt makes us feel vulnerable. When we don’t understand it, feeling…

As clinical practitioners, we are in the education business, although we might not recognise this explicitly. The business of learning…

Unspoken hopes and fears accompany every patient into your clinic room or studio, nestling behind their hearts in hidden places….

“How does that feel?” Can you hear yourself asking that of a patient? I know I have heard myself say…

Overwhelm. Vulnerability. Even desperation. When these currents start to run through us, we seek quick solutions to feel better, something…

Sometimes we confuse feeling stable with being still, unmovable or unmoved by the changing forces and circumstances around us. Yet…

Lead Instructor Kent Fyrth shares this lovely illustration of a first appointment: I recently had the great pleasure of working…

JEMS® is a way of working, rather than a set of techniques. The communication aspect is key, as is self…

We have unfortunately seen Andy Murray tumble out of Wimbledon for 2022, but it hasn’t been his performance that has…

Your brain makes arrangements based on your intentions. Tell it what you want instead of what you don’t. When someone…

Owning your movement is not about being able to perform specific exercises. It is about your body’s spontaneous response to…

I love the freedom of working for myself in private practice and have worked as a sole practitioner for the…

Hips – it’s all about glutes, right? Wrong. This week two clients learned that the roots of their chronic hip…

Movement is force management organised around intention. When we talk about a holistic approach, it is often associated with calming,…

Do you feel a nagging sense that something is missing, despite the elegant, highly attuned manual therapy you offer your…

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin Do you ever look…

When you see a person move, you are witnessing how they are creating, controlling and expressing themselves through the management…

Recently I asked our new Movement ART Programme 2 course participants to give me one word or phrase to describe…

Growth is a funny thing – it can sneak up on you under the deep disguise of uncertainty and a…

Feet, skin, eyes, fascia, vestibular system…they are voices which sing together. Your body is suspended in that song and you…

  “This is how it used to feel when I enjoyed running.” This surprising statement came from a professional triathlete,…

We can be so attached to a specific outcome, that we leave no space for the interesting discovery we might…

It is easy to lose sight of the big picture when teaching or coaching movement. We can clutter up minds…

My last post about shame in the rehabilitation and movement space seemed to strike a chord, and I am grateful…

A person’s movement is shaped by their history and experiences, their beliefs, their emotions, their sense of agency, identity and…

Are you the mooring or the boat in your clinics and classes? Here are two scenarios: in one, we are…

The term “embodiment” is trending widely through the movement, psychology and emotional wellbeing fields at present, and movement professionals in…

It is a common misconception that our movement is the outcome of our biomechanics, when in fact our biomechanics are…

This is just a short piece, but the subject is something that I have struck again and again, and have…

When I wrote my end of year message this time last year, I could never have anticipated where we would…

Your movement starts with a thought, an attitude.  What happens next has its genesis there, well before the movement begins….

It is the weekend, and time to reflect and perhaps resource, recover, take a moment or more…   This period…

Does a discus thrower have grace? Does a dancer have power?   The very best performers have the fine tuned…

Physiotherapist and JEMS® Certified Practitioner Ronja has kindly shared this story about using JEMS® with a kayaking friend: A friend…

Human actions often produce sounds. If you are a tap dancer, the sounds are intentional.  If you are a hurdler,…

Have you ever thought about about what is happening in people’s heads in a yoga class?  Let’s face it: many…

Let’s not trap people with contrived control behaviours which rob them of normal movement. Aspire to transcend an injury, not…

There are no good guys or bad guys in your anatomy. Just muscles doing the best they can to meet…

Sometimes the only way to keep our equilibrium lies in daring to find a new balance point. Homeostasis is our…

Your posture is like an emotional T-shirt: if you’re still wearing that old one you pulled on to survive years…

I am so proud of the wonderful professionals who have taken their JEMS training to the patients and clients in…

“What are the corrections for this exercise?” From where I sit, there are no corrections – just unexplored possibilities.  What…

Here’s an interesting thing to consider: do you tend to give feedback after successful or less successful attempts? When a…

Steve Young is a past participant of JEMS® for Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Professionals, and kindly shared this story about…

This time last year, my reflections were focused upon my own preparations for a day of working with people, and…

Following in my mum’s footsteps, I qualified as a physio in 1995. My postgraduate studies reinforced in me that physiotherapy…

JEMS® Certified Practitioner Gavin Church has kindly shared this story about using JEMS® with a patient with Multiple Sclerosis: “A…

I have taught on the subject of movement assessment for many years, and one of the tripping points that comes…

This is part of one of a three part series on terms that are common in the training and rehabilitation…

“I was doing so well, but now I’ve lost it.” I was sitting with a patient whom I had not…

Nicki Tinkler has attended all three parts of the JEMS® Course series for Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Professionals, and kindly…

I thoroughly enjoyed presenting at Physiofirst Conference 2019 this weekend. The topic of the conference was “ Hands on, hands…

Well here we are, with the new year about to spring forth, a step once more into a swirling sea…

JEMS® has been developed over a period of 25 years and draws from biomechanical, neuromuscular, sensory, psychological and behavioural domains…

It’s tennis season, and the wrist, elbow and shoulder problems are unfortunately going to start appearing in the clinic. This…

Posture is not so blunt as simple alignment. Along with a host of neurosensory and reflexive responses, it reflects how…

How do great players look so relaxed, yet cover and control the court so easily? Physically it does not seem to…

I have had some questions from my last Facebook post post regarding gluteal timing vs gluteal strengthening and this relationship…

The patient, a chronic pain patient with multiple sites of dysfunction, is attending her first appointment. We are performing a…

A couple of years ago, I was speaking about movement efficiency at a conference, and challenged the common cuing of hip thrusting…

Whether it is working with life issues, coaching or physical rehabilitation, it is a practitioner’ s role to create and…

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.” — Jean-Paul Sartre,…

There, do I have your attention? “Cheating” when performing an exercise is such a common judgement that no one even…

JEMS is being used by rehabilitation practitioners in a vast array of different fields, and in this first guest blog,…

So you have assessed the Static Lunge, and it’s time to layer on a progression to take your movement testing…

For a movement test to be relevant and specific, it should be able to clearly answer a question for you,…

This week I had an interesting but important moment with a patient. The person is a performer, someone who stands…

On a recent course I was discussing issues of sensory processing, with particular reference to the feet. In alpine skiers,…

I am frequently asked by worried parents about their childrens’ feet. Are they normal? Are they flat footed? Should they…

Recently I had a patient come in for a follow up session. She was a talented young violinist, who struggled…

I just wanted to share a little story from clinic, as it was rather beautiful and highlights the need to…

  In a recent study, Frost et al discovered that knowledge of scoring criteria improved FMS scores in a group…

How many reps? I have been asked this countless times over the years when teaching JEMS courses. What is the answer?…

I see quite a few young athletes who have sustained their injuries in their first S and C session when…

It is often disparagingly said that “those who can, do and those who can’t, teach”. While we all know of…

Recently on our JEMS Facebook page I uploaded a video of Yoda speaking to Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars swamp…

Video feedback can help someone to see what they are doing, but is more meaningful when used to help them…

To mark the launch of the new JEMS® Physiotools Home Exercise Module, I was asked to write a little something…

Some of the questions which are frequently quite validly raised during our courses are “don’t we all have potential movement…

We see a lot of physiotherapists and Pilates teachers with low back pain in our clinic. Many of them have…

A new website brings opportunities to review content and retrieve some of the more popular blogs! Here is one that…

So another year of being on the planet has clicked over for me, and this sparks a certain amount of…

  Are you using the 3 Vs in your programmes? Variety, Variation and Variability are the keys to making sure…

The ability to squat has different purposes for different people. For some, dropping the centre of gravity smoothly and easily…

Last night I had the pleasure of working with some great kids aged 13 -16 and their athletics coach down…

I had the pleasure of working with youth elite weight lifter Ryan Baugh. Winner of the Under 20 62 kg…