My commitment to evidence-based and ethical practice means that I do not endorse or promote many of the benefits or methods commonly, yet falsely claimed throughout the massage therapy industry.

Taking baseline pain scores sacrifices the validity of a study for reliability, and it’s really easy to fix.

We have a problem of well-intentioned sharing of information effectively becoming misinformation that is readily propagated and no-one is accountable.

At some time or other us therapists see what we consider to be brilliant results. Someone books in they’ve had a painful thing for years, seen the GP, the physiotherapist, tried acupuncture and now here they are. We do our thing and one or two session later the pain has gone, amazing. At this point we therapists face a terribly powerful temptation – the belief that we fixed them

We all love a nice testimonial, and they serve a function but how valid might this data be?

It all begins with an idea.

To all who can’t get to their physiotherapist, osteopath, chiropractor or massage therapist for ongoing maintenance during this 2020 COVID-19 lockdown – time to reflect.

When something hurts, we usually have a belief as to what caused it. Often, this intuition is wrong. For example, we might blame a sore knee on a rugby injury from 25 years ago that hasn’t been a problem in the interim, or it’s our office chair, or some strange idea about carrying a bag on one shoulder.

If you have just the slightest curiosity about running, I’d like to extend a most gentle invitation.

Have we evolved an unstable spine?

The posture assessment has been part of the manual therapy experience for decades.

Massage therapists are trained conspiracy theorists – but don’t know it… Man.

Welcome to a new series highlighting ubiquitous myths in manual therapy which damage the industry and more importantly, mislead you.

“If a therapy takes years with no improvement – it does not work”

‘Does it feel tight?’