24th February 2020 | Allied Health Professionals
Few health professionals divide people quite like chiropractors. You might think they are either quacks, or geniuses, and have evidence that you think supports your opinion. But what do you know about the education of chiropractors? How good is the knowledge of...
20th October 2019 | Allied Health Professionals
There’s been a recent systematic review of physiotherapy practices. We like to think that when we see a health professional we get good quality advice, but we don’t always know. Do physiotherapists provide evidence-based treatment? We’d like to think so!...
29th September 2019 | Exercise
You might have seen people in the gym training with an altitude training mask. These strange masks, like the one pictured below, sit around the mouth and the nose. Many people think that these can improve your performance by changing your breathing, recreating the...
10th July 2019 | Critical Thinking, Exercise |
The verdict is in, and it isn’t good: recent research has shown us that only about half of personal trainers use reliable sources of information. For those of us who want to be taken seriously as personal trainers this is concerning. For those of us who want to know...
24th December 2018 | Critical Thinking, Exercise |
Part of being a good critical thinker is being able to adjust your opinion as evidence changes. And I’d have no business writing these articles if I didn’t practice what I preach! This is a look at the changing evidence on when and how to stretch, and how this effects...
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