Movement Pulse
Research and news across back pain, fibromyalgia, hypermobility, posture, sleep, and the Feldenkrais Method, with practitioner's notes from Chava Sorani, GCFP.
Severe symptoms while your cycles still look normal, and what to raise with a doctor
A Climacteric analysis of 1,478 women across twelve countries finds symptom severity and job satisfaction shift before the periods stop, not after.
Sep 20, 2026
The same muscle, the same knee angle, a stiffness reading that changed when the hip moved
A randomized crossover study in Scientific Reports measured quadriceps stiffness in four body positions. Keeping the knee at the same angle, changing the hip position changed the measured stiffness of a muscle that does not cross the hip.
Sep 19, 2026
If fibromyalgia is autoimmune, removing the antibodies should have helped more than this
A drug that clears antibodies out of the blood was the cleanest test yet of the idea that fibromyalgia is autoimmune. The group result came in small.
Sep 18, 2026
People chose between mindfulness and Tai Chi, and choosing did not make it work better
A trial of 587 adults let people pick their own gentle practice. Both helped sleep, fatigue and pain. The picking made no measurable difference.
Sep 17, 2026
The bone research kept saying load it harder. The largest review added a quieter line
124 trials and 18,429 adults over forty. Brisk walking led at two of the three sites measured. The one result the authors rated most confidently was not a walking result.
Sep 16, 2026
Getting out of breath may be the hypermobility symptom that quietly shrinks your day
A Toronto clinic gave forty seven hypermobile adults questionnaires, a Fitbit and a long interview. The breathing complaint nobody asks about tracked almost everything else.
Sep 15, 2026
The clinic that watches your bones and the one that watches your balance rarely talk
Seven international organizations published a joint position paper on 10 September saying fall prevention and fracture prevention are still built as separate services. Three questions worth taking to your next appointment.
Sep 14, 2026
Lying down is not the same as resting, and researchers have now measured the difference
A panel of 27 people and 162 adults living with fatigue helped build a scale for rest. One of its six parts is called lack of skill.
Sep 13, 2026
Why neck pain trials keep working on the mid back, and what the pain score misses
Fifty four people, six weeks, and a result that keeps repeating in this literature. The mid back work did not beat neck work on pain, and beat it on almost everything else.
Sep 12, 2026
The thing that stopped people finishing a pain education programme was not the schedule
Sixty three adults with chronic neck pain were asked to name, in their own words, what got in the way of staying with a pain neuroscience education and exercise programme. The barrier they rated highest was not the timetable. It was whether the programme fit their body.
Sep 11, 2026
The kind of exercise that helped attention most was the slowest one in the set
One hundred and ten trials, 8,130 people over sixty. No exercise type won across the board. The winner changed with the mental skill being measured.
Sep 10, 2026
Your balance got better, but did your sense of where your body is get better too
Fifty one randomised trials, 2,319 people. The gains showed up mostly in sway, strength and pain, and much less often in the position sense the training was named after.
Sep 9, 2026Ready to start moving better?
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