4th July 2020 | Critical Thinking |
It’s hard to read research. The language is tough, lots of specialist knowledge is required, and the statistics are baffling. But sometimes research makes it into the public sphere, maybe because it’s controversial. When this happens, you may debate it with others....
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...
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