Opening a jar of pasta sauce should be a simple job. Carrying a couple of shopping bags from the car should not require much thought. But what happens when the lid refuses to budge, your fingers feel as though they cannot hold on properly, or a bag that normally feels manageable starts slipping from your […]
By the end of a long shift, your hands might feel stiff, your wrists may ache and your forearms might feel as though they have been working overtime. Perhaps you have spent the day drilling, sanding, tightening screws, using a wrench or operating vibrating equipment. Each individual task seemed manageable, but after hours of repeating […]
You stretch your left hamstring. It feels fine. You stretch the right one and suddenly you cannot get anywhere near as far. Or perhaps one shoulder always feels tighter. One hip feels restricted. One side of your neck gets tense after a day at work. If one side of your body feels tighter, it is […]
You are nowhere near retirement age, but your back seems to disagree. You roll out of bed feeling stiff. You stand up after sitting for an hour and need a few seconds to straighten up. You bend down to pick something up and think, “Surely I shouldn’t feel this old yet.” If this sounds familiar, […]
You reach behind your back and feel it. A dull ache between your shoulder blades. Maybe it feels tight after a day at the desk. Perhaps it appears after driving, lifting, training or spending hours looking down at your phone. It is easy to assume the shoulder itself must be the problem. But pain between […]
You wake up and something feels different. Your back is a little stiffer than usual. One shoulder feels tight. Your hips feel heavy when you walk downstairs. You stretch, but somehow that doesn’t quite fix it. Nothing hurts badly enough to stop you doing your day. You just don’t feel like you’re moving properly. It […]
You take a deep breath and a pinpoint spot in the ribcage catches. A cough can do it. So can twisting to grab a bag off the back seat, or turning to reverse-park. It can feel alarmingly sharp, like something is stuck or about to crack. That can be a rib joint irritation or a […]
You went to bed at a reasonable time. You got your eight hours. You expected to wake up feeling refreshed. Instead, you roll out of bed feeling like you’ve spent the night doing manual labour. Your lower back is stiff. Your neck feels tight. Your hips or shoulders are sore. It can be confusing, particularly […]
You wake up one morning and your heel hurts. You cannot remember twisting it, falling, hitting it or doing anything unusual. Maybe you have been walking normally. Perhaps you have not even changed your exercise routine. So why is your heel suddenly sore? Heel pain does not always come from one obvious injury. It can […]
Your shoulder might feel manageable throughout the day, only to become noticeably painful when you get into bed. You shift onto one side. The pain starts. You roll over. It gets worse. Eventually, you’re trying to find one position that lets you fall asleep without irritating your shoulder. If you experience shoulder pain at night, […]
