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Motor Learning – What Is It And Why Do You Need To Know?
Ever found yourself saying things like “oh, it’s muscle memory” to your clients (or self)? Or wondering why you poke yourself in the gums with your toothbrush? Our brains have a complex and efficient way of storing short-cuts to actions that we make frequently through a wonderful thing called ‘motor learning’. Dive quickly…
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The Limits Of Empathy
Empathy is an essential quality for effective rehab – all the books in the world won’t help to support an individual in their own personal needs: life and people are just too beautifully complex to be neatly fit into generic guidelines. Listening to Harry Parker’s account of being a person with prosthetics (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00162m2) is an excellent resource…
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Your Body Will Respond To Your Belief. Fact or Fiction?
The relationship between what we think, or more specifically what we believe to be true, and what our bodies do and how they feel has always been at the heart of the Bloom approach to physical therapy. Fascinating work by Neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan explores this intersection in an article in online science magazine Nautilus (https://nautil.us/the-neurologist-who-diagnoses-psychosomatics-12180/?_sp=f9e75fca-b946-4342-b75d-9e0dd35f1517.1650724133419).…
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Do What You Gotta Do
Physiotherapists learn a real-world approach to rehabilitation is best. Lets imagine your arm is broken. Or was, but now its healing. You go see a physio to help your recovery. Typically, a physiotherapist will issue you with a set of exercises to follow, usually 10-20 reps, 3 times a day of everything, forever. For most…
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Hard Work Saves Lives
Welcome research from 5-5 regarding the general health benefits of “muscle strengthening activity” provides a clear link between regular use of our bodies in ways that are effortful and reduced risks from diseases. [https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/56/13/755.full.pdf] For years, exercise therapy research has focused on the ways in which exercise affects muscles, joints etc. But this study provides us…