Micro-post on The Experience of Pain
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Micro blog post on the experience of pain - This post highlights the notion that pain is not just an injury, pain is a multi-dimensional experience consisting of three major parts:
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Study shows the paw-sitive effects of watching cat videos
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"According to ReelSEO.com, a website about video marketing, there are more than two million cat videos on YouTube. People have watched these videos more than 25 billion times, which equates to an average of 12,000 views per cat video."
Read MoreArthritis isn’t just a condition affecting older people, it likely starts much earlier
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"Arthritis is an umbrella term for over 100 conditions affecting the joints. All result in pain and often severely limit the activities a person can do. There are many different types of arthritis, each with a different cause."
Read MoreWhy Do We Stretch in the Morning?
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Pandiculation is an inherent movement to provide the body with feedback about the state of the soft tissue structures. I have wrote about this interesting phenomenon in previous posts (Pandiculation: The Cat Stretch).
Closely related to that post is this video that provides an overview of why we stretch in the morning.
Read MoreMassage Therapy Techniques on Youtube
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I wanted to share a video from The Massage Sloth Youtube channel, this is a channel that I recommend following as they consistently put out high quality content for massage therapists.
Read MoreResearch Highlight: Connective tissue repair and communication cells
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Research into what telocytes are and what they do is still in its infancy, essentially these are mechanosensitive cells that contribute to cellular repair and remodeling. In this post I wanted to highlight a paper that provides an introduction and overview of telocytes and the possible implications for manual and movement therapists.
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