Paul Ingraham (PainScience.com)

Faith in the power of core strength to help #backpain hasn’t even flickered for most people in the last 20y.

It also hasn't flickered for the average PT. 🤦🏻‍♂️

SOURCE: My inbox, stuffed with patient reports about being told to beef up their core and/or "activate" their glutes.

Cut out #triggerpoints like cysts? 🙀 Two surgeons did it for 20y, published 1 paper, the only "science" on this: 1 patient, 5 cm incisions, predatory journal. Not medicine’s worst idea (that hole goes DEEP), but not great!

NEW POST, audio for members:

painscience.com/blog/surgery-f…

Seriously? Claiming that fascia is "released" by supplements? Well, that's a new low. 🙄

For a rational and skeptical perspective on fascia, see my guide to the topic (substantively updated over the last month):

painscience.com/fascia

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Has a diagnosis ever been taken away from you? Relief or setback?

Christina Applegate’s #MS diagnosis was apparently wrong…but that doesn’t necessarily mean bad care, or “back to square one” (as with #chronicpain), 90s read: painscience.com/blog/dr-novell…

Can a robot 🤖 make knee replacement better for #arthritis patients? Good masked trial says…

“Nope.” No better at a year… for + £1000.

But the numbers were better for the patients who BELIEVED they got robot surgery! 🤦🏻‍♂️

NEW POST, 90-second read:
painscience.com/blog/robot-or-…