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- And again! More muscle knot squishing science, different experiment, same results
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And again! More muscle knot squishing science, different experiment, same results
Odd! Just a couple days after posting about a not-yet-published study of trigger point squishing — quite a rare subject for research — I came across (via @massagetherapy) an almost identical study that is published. They also reported news that makes massage therapists smile:
…using ischemic compression on shoulder trigger points may reduce the symptoms of [...]
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Do Epsom salts go up your bum?
Epsom salts supposedly relieve aches and pains, especially muscle pain, but there are many problems with this idea, which I have written about in truly ridiculous detail (believe it or not). It’s not at all clear how salts can get through the skin barrier, which is pretty substantial. But a simple 2006 experiment showed that [...]
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Registered for TAM8 and science-based medicine workshops
Once again I will be travelling to Las Vegas this summer to participate in “TAM” — The Amazing Meeting, a critical thinking and (who are we kidding) geek convention. I went to my first TAM last year, and wrote a bizarrely long and cheeky account of the experience that was strangely popular. This year I [...]
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“I’ve tried to interpret the findings of the best physiologists and translate them into sound practices. That’s made me a radical.”