This video demonstrates Apley’s compression test for the knee joint, which assesses/diagnoses meniscus pathology.
FREE DCOMT video – Piriformis Becomes a Medial Rotator of the Thigh
This 3D Animation demonstrates how the piriformis changes its joint action from being a lateral rotator of hip joint to being a medial rotator.
How CEUs Actually Work: A Personal Trainer’s Guide to NASM, ACE, AFAA & NFPT Renewal Requirements
Understanding how the CEU system works, what counts, and how requirements differ between certifying bodies makes renewal a far less stressful process, and can even turn continuing education into a genuine opportunity to build new skills rather than a box-ticking exercise.
Medical Cannabis and Musculoskeletal Care: What Patients Should Know About Physician Guidance and State Programs
Explore how physician-guided medical cannabis fits into musculoskeletal care, physical therapy, telehealth access, and state regulations in 2026.
Body Language – From Commons Signs to Spotting Lies
Here is a fun exercise to help you practice your body language reading skills. Turn on a movie or tv show, but turn the sound off. It is amazing when there are no words to distract us, how much better we can read the body language and understand the feelings and emotions of the communication.
The Effect of Foam Roller Massage on Pressure Pain Threshold
Foam roller massage is quite popular nowadays among athletes and being recommended to patients by many health rehabilitation professionals as an intervention to augment other manual therapies or as a warm-up before an athletic activity, or as a recovery after athletic activity.
The Biomarker Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: Why Neuro Drug Development Lags Oncology
Discover why neuro drug development lags oncology due to biomarker bottlenecks, validation challenges, and how imaging can close the gap.
Cellular Energy and Exercise Recovery: What Movement Professionals Should Understand About Mitochondrial Function
For manual therapists and movement professionals working with clients on fatigue, slow recovery or persistent low energy, understanding this layer adds useful context to what is already being addressed at the tissue level.
Stretching Reduces Cancer Tumor Growth in a Study with Mice
The fact that simple stretching for only 10 minutes per day could reduce cancer tumor growth by 52% in this study involving mice is pretty amazing! Being a manual and movement therapy physician, author, and educator, it is clear to me that the human body needs movement. But to see a 52% improvement was incredible!
Healthy Lifestyle: How To Maintain A Fitness Routine Without Burning Yourself Out
Once your life is more balanced, it will be easier to maintain a workout routine for the long-term. Not to mention, you won’t be missing out on other aspects of your life — or compromising your health. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to self-care and achieving a healthy lifestyle as everyone has different needs.
3 TEAS Exam Study Tips to Improve Your Score
Students preparing for the TEAS face four content areas: Reading, Math, Science, and English and Language Usage. You don’t need equal mastery of all of them. What you need is a smarter approach, and these three study tips deliver exactly that.
Kylo Peptides Review 2026: Is Kylo Peptides a Legit Research Supplier or Not?
Our Kylo Peptides review checks the published COAs, triple lab testing, catalog, and shipping terms to see how this peptide vendor holds up in 2026.
Subscapularis – Deep-Seated Rotator Cuff Muscle
The subscapularis is one of the more challenging muscles for manual and movement therapists to work with because it is so deep-seated, but given its role in frozen shoulder, it can be one of the more important muscles when working with our clients.
20 Memory Tips to Improve Your Learning
The following is a blog post article contributed to us from Daisy May Hartwell. In this blog post article, Daisy discusses 20 simple and straight-forward tips that we can employ to improve our memory and improve our learning!
Benefits of Choosing Personalized Vein Treatment
A personal treatment plan helps to measure, to be practical and to provide relief of all leg related complaints and concerns for the long term.
Best Hydration Tips for Recreational Athletes To Maximize Performance
There are many facets of a recreational athlete’s hydration strategy that can be controlled to enhance their highest potential. Here are 7 ways to improve your performance by simply paying attention to the following tips.
Physical Activity Linked to Healthier and Longer Life, but Highly Physically Active Workers Die Early
When working, we place a demand on the body and the body responds by adapting to meet those demands. However, every tissue, has a limit to the mechanical stress that it can accept during physical activity without injury. It would seem likely that the demands of some professions are too great for the human body.
Healthy at Home: Maintaining a Balanced Lifestyle with Diabetes
Diabetes is no longer a dreaded condition that confines people to a life of bland foods, self-injections and the constant monitoring of glucose and insulin levels. By observing some basic dietary rules, individuals with diabetes can lead perfectly happy and normal lives.
Cold Plunge Therapy for Athletes: How Cold Water Recovery Supports Better Performance
Cold therapy isn’t going to replace proper rehab or medical care. But if you use it right, it’s a really solid addition to your recovery routine.
Why Early Restorative Care Can Help Save Natural Teeth
Restorative dentistry refers to treatments that maintain, restore, and stabilize teeth that would otherwise be lost or considerably weakened.
Differences in Knee and Hip Adduction in Runners with Iliotibial Band Syndrome
This study seems to show a relationship between iliotibial band (ITB) syndrome and knee adduction (genu varum) and the activation of the TFL. A relationship can be two incidents that occur together, termed a “coincidence.” Or there can be a causal relationship between them; i.e., one causes the other to occur.
Decreased Ankle Dorsiflexion is Associated with Dynamic Knee Valgus
A proposed biomechanical explanation is that restricted ankle joint dorsiflexion directly results in overpronation of the foot, which causes internal rotation of the lower extremity, which strains the external/abductor musculature, which can then no longer prevent femoral adduction; hence genu valgus.
How to Choose a Rehabilitation Center: What Whole Person Rehabilitation Actually Requires
Let’s have a look at rehabilitation services, including inpatient alcohol and drug detoxification and a variety of outpatient programs for the treatment of a range of behavioral health disorders.
Masticatory Biomechanics and Neuromuscular Alignment
Our goal is to protect the jaw joints, avoid chronic myofascial pain, and promote long-term oral health by prioritizing occlusal health and muscle function.
Absence of Evidence – Do Parachutes Actually Help Skydivers?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of the absence. Following is how a research review of the effectiveness of parachutes might be concluded: “There is no conclusive evidence that parachutes are effective at helping skydivers.” Ridiculous? Yes. Yet accurate and absurd!
How Can Tight Muscles of the Hip Joint Cause a Scoliosis?
So, if hip abductor group on one side is tighter at baseline tone than the hip adductor group on that side, the pelvis will be pulled into depression on that side, resulting in a lumbar scoliosis that is convex on that side. Similarly, tight opposite-side hip adductor musculature can cause the same scoliotic curve.
Neuromuscular Impact of Acute Odontogenic Pain and Emergency Dentist Services at Markham Smile Centre
Even after the initial tooth pain has subsided, residual muscle tightness, joint stiffness and secondary cervical tension often remain.
How Anatomy Improves Clinical Decision Making for Nurses
For nurses, anatomy is more than an exam subject. It becomes a practical map used during assessments, procedures, handovers, and emergencies.
Does Carrying a Backpack Cause Back Pain in Adolescents?
And perhaps the biggest problem I have with this study about backpacks and adolescent back pain is that an overuse syndrome usually does NOT cause pain in the early stages. When the body is physically stressed by something like carrying a backpack, it often requires many years before the overuse results in pain.
The Effect of Massage Therapy on Blood Pressure in Prehypertensive Women
The results indicated that the mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures in the massage group were significantly lower in comparison with the control group. The results also showed that the lowered blood pressure was still observed 72 hours after the treatment.
