Do you have patients or clients with persistent hip flexor complaints associated with running or walking? It might have nothing…
MoreDo you have patients or clients with persistent hip flexor complaints associated with running or walking? It might have nothing…
MoreIn my clinic over the years I have seen many hypermobile patients, who have developed chronic pain and reduced function….
MoreAfter acute low back pain, it is quite common for the protective stiffening response in the trunk and hip muscles…
MoreWalking down hill is a classic provocation of anterior knee pain. Often the focus is on the knee itself, or…
MoreMovement can take us to the source of a problem, rather than chasing symptoms. This week’s inspiration came from a…
MoreFancy feeling a little easier in your walking or running? So many people struggle to find greater ease in their…
MoreI see so many people who have trained and practiced exercises incredibly diligently, only to find that very little changes….
MoreComplex doesn’t need to be complicated. It isn’t unusual for people to feel the load of resisted pushing exclusively in…
MorePatient education is seen as a key component of a treatment, yet with virtually no training in education itself, are…
MoreLet’s talk upper quadrant. After a very long period of strain, before and after Dad’s passing, Mum is starting to…
MoreDo we call it “non-compliance”, with its overtones of judgement, for apparent resistance, lack of engagement or even laziness? Or…
MoreHow does learning JEMS® help you to work effectively within the biopsychosocial approach? A recent paper by Mescouto et al…
MoreHave you ever asked a patient or client, “How does that feel?” when they are performing an exercise? What if…
MoreUncertainty isn’t fun. It makes us feel doubt, and doubt makes us feel vulnerable. When we don’t understand it, feeling…
MoreAs clinical practitioners, we are in the education business, although we might not recognise this explicitly. The business of learning…
MoreUnspoken hopes and fears accompany every patient into your clinic room or studio, nestling behind their hearts in hidden places….
More“How does that feel?” Can you hear yourself asking that of a patient? I know I have heard myself say…
MoreOverwhelm. Vulnerability. Even desperation. When these currents start to run through us, we seek quick solutions to feel better, something…
MoreSometimes we confuse feeling stable with being still, unmovable or unmoved by the changing forces and circumstances around us. Yet…
MoreLead Instructor Kent Fyrth shares this lovely illustration of a first appointment: I recently had the great pleasure of working…
MoreJEMS® is a way of working, rather than a set of techniques. The communication aspect is key, as is self…
MoreWe have unfortunately seen Andy Murray tumble out of Wimbledon for 2022, but it hasn’t been his performance that has…
MoreYour brain makes arrangements based on your intentions. Tell it what you want instead of what you don’t. When someone…
MoreOwning your movement is not about being able to perform specific exercises. It is about your body’s spontaneous response to…
MoreI love the freedom of working for myself in private practice and have worked as a sole practitioner for the…
MoreHips – it’s all about glutes, right? Wrong. This week two clients learned that the roots of their chronic hip…
MoreMovement is force management organised around intention. When we talk about a holistic approach, it is often associated with calming,…
MoreDo you feel a nagging sense that something is missing, despite the elegant, highly attuned manual therapy you offer your…
More“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin Do you ever look…
MoreWhen you see a person move, you are witnessing how they are creating, controlling and expressing themselves through the management…
MoreRecently I asked our new Movement ART Programme 2 course participants to give me one word or phrase to describe…
MoreGrowth is a funny thing – it can sneak up on you under the deep disguise of uncertainty and a…
MoreFeet, skin, eyes, fascia, vestibular system…they are voices which sing together. Your body is suspended in that song and you…
More“This is how it used to feel when I enjoyed running.” This surprising statement came from a professional triathlete,…
MoreWe can be so attached to a specific outcome, that we leave no space for the interesting discovery we might…
MoreIt is easy to lose sight of the big picture when teaching or coaching movement. We can clutter up minds…
MoreMy last post about shame in the rehabilitation and movement space seemed to strike a chord, and I am grateful…
MoreA person’s movement is shaped by their history and experiences, their beliefs, their emotions, their sense of agency, identity and…
MoreAre you the mooring or the boat in your clinics and classes? Here are two scenarios: in one, we are…
MoreThe term “embodiment” is trending widely through the movement, psychology and emotional wellbeing fields at present, and movement professionals in…
MoreIt is a common misconception that our movement is the outcome of our biomechanics, when in fact our biomechanics are…
MoreThis is just a short piece, but the subject is something that I have struck again and again, and have…
MoreWhen I wrote my end of year message this time last year, I could never have anticipated where we would…
MoreYour movement starts with a thought, an attitude. What happens next has its genesis there, well before the movement begins….
MoreIt is the weekend, and time to reflect and perhaps resource, recover, take a moment or more… This period…
MoreDoes a discus thrower have grace? Does a dancer have power? The very best performers have the fine tuned…
MorePhysiotherapist and JEMS® Certified Practitioner Ronja has kindly shared this story about using JEMS® with a kayaking friend: A friend…
MoreHuman actions often produce sounds. If you are a tap dancer, the sounds are intentional. If you are a hurdler,…
MoreHave you ever thought about about what is happening in people’s heads in a yoga class? Let’s face it: many…
MoreLet’s not trap people with contrived control behaviours which rob them of normal movement. Aspire to transcend an injury, not…
MoreThere are no good guys or bad guys in your anatomy. Just muscles doing the best they can to meet…
MoreSometimes the only way to keep our equilibrium lies in daring to find a new balance point. Homeostasis is our…
MoreYour posture is like an emotional T-shirt: if you’re still wearing that old one you pulled on to survive years…
MoreI am so proud of the wonderful professionals who have taken their JEMS training to the patients and clients in…
More“What are the corrections for this exercise?” From where I sit, there are no corrections – just unexplored possibilities. What…
MoreHere’s an interesting thing to consider: do you tend to give feedback after successful or less successful attempts? When a…
MoreSteve Young is a past participant of JEMS® for Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Professionals, and kindly shared this story about…
MoreThis time last year, my reflections were focused upon my own preparations for a day of working with people, and…
MoreFollowing in my mum’s footsteps, I qualified as a physio in 1995. My postgraduate studies reinforced in me that physiotherapy…
MoreJEMS® Certified Practitioner Gavin Church has kindly shared this story about using JEMS® with a patient with Multiple Sclerosis: “A…
MoreI have taught on the subject of movement assessment for many years, and one of the tripping points that comes…
MoreThis is part of one of a three part series on terms that are common in the training and rehabilitation…
More“I was doing so well, but now I’ve lost it.” I was sitting with a patient whom I had not…
MoreNicki Tinkler has attended all three parts of the JEMS® Course series for Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Professionals, and kindly…
MoreI thoroughly enjoyed presenting at Physiofirst Conference 2019 this weekend. The topic of the conference was “ Hands on, hands…
MoreWell here we are, with the new year about to spring forth, a step once more into a swirling sea…
MoreJEMS® has been developed over a period of 25 years and draws from biomechanical, neuromuscular, sensory, psychological and behavioural domains…
MoreIt’s tennis season, and the wrist, elbow and shoulder problems are unfortunately going to start appearing in the clinic. This…
MorePosture is not so blunt as simple alignment. Along with a host of neurosensory and reflexive responses, it reflects how…
MoreHow do great players look so relaxed, yet cover and control the court so easily? Physically it does not seem to…
MoreI have had some questions from my last Facebook post post regarding gluteal timing vs gluteal strengthening and this relationship…
MoreThe patient, a chronic pain patient with multiple sites of dysfunction, is attending her first appointment. We are performing a…
MoreA couple of years ago, I was speaking about movement efficiency at a conference, and challenged the common cuing of hip thrusting…
MoreWhether it is working with life issues, coaching or physical rehabilitation, it is a practitioner’ s role to create and…
More“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.” — Jean-Paul Sartre,…
MoreThere, do I have your attention? “Cheating” when performing an exercise is such a common judgement that no one even…
MoreJEMS is being used by rehabilitation practitioners in a vast array of different fields, and in this first guest blog,…
MoreSo you have assessed the Static Lunge, and it’s time to layer on a progression to take your movement testing…
MoreFor a movement test to be relevant and specific, it should be able to clearly answer a question for you,…
MoreThis week I had an interesting but important moment with a patient. The person is a performer, someone who stands…
MoreOn a recent course I was discussing issues of sensory processing, with particular reference to the feet. In alpine skiers,…
MoreI am frequently asked by worried parents about their childrens’ feet. Are they normal? Are they flat footed? Should they…
MoreRecently I had a patient come in for a follow up session. She was a talented young violinist, who struggled…
MoreI just wanted to share a little story from clinic, as it was rather beautiful and highlights the need to…
MoreIn a recent study, Frost et al discovered that knowledge of scoring criteria improved FMS scores in a group…
MoreHow many reps? I have been asked this countless times over the years when teaching JEMS courses. What is the answer?…
MoreI see quite a few young athletes who have sustained their injuries in their first S and C session when…
MoreIt is often disparagingly said that “those who can, do and those who can’t, teach”. While we all know of…
MoreRecently on our JEMS Facebook page I uploaded a video of Yoda speaking to Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars swamp…
MoreVideo feedback can help someone to see what they are doing, but is more meaningful when used to help them…
MoreTo mark the launch of the new JEMS® Physiotools Home Exercise Module, I was asked to write a little something…
MoreSome of the questions which are frequently quite validly raised during our courses are “don’t we all have potential movement…
MoreWe see a lot of physiotherapists and Pilates teachers with low back pain in our clinic. Many of them have…
MoreA new website brings opportunities to review content and retrieve some of the more popular blogs! Here is one that…
MoreSo another year of being on the planet has clicked over for me, and this sparks a certain amount of…
MoreAre you using the 3 Vs in your programmes? Variety, Variation and Variability are the keys to making sure…
MoreThe ability to squat has different purposes for different people. For some, dropping the centre of gravity smoothly and easily…
MoreLast night I had the pleasure of working with some great kids aged 13 -16 and their athletics coach down…
MoreI had the pleasure of working with youth elite weight lifter Ryan Baugh. Winner of the Under 20 62 kg…
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