Movement Pulse
Research and news across back pain, fibromyalgia, hypermobility, posture, sleep, and the Feldenkrais Method, with practitioner's notes from Chava Sorani, GCFP.
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, 2026
Five years of vitamin D did not lower fracture risk, and that changes where to look
The Finnish vitamin D trial followed 2495 older adults for five years and counted every fracture in the national registers. Three questions worth taking to your next appointment.
Sep 8, 2026
What held up in two new reviews of yoga and qigong was not balance or strength
Twenty one yoga trials and twenty two qigong trials, published ten days apart. The physical scores wobbled once the missing studies were accounted for. Quality of life did not.
Sep 7, 2026
Why paying attention to one small spot can make you feel something somewhere else
A float tank, a rubber ring on a little finger, and 100 volunteers. Most of what people felt was not where the ring was.
Sep 6, 2026
A back support helped in one trial. Then Cochrane pooled eight of them and found a gap
Cochrane went looking for evidence on lumbar supports and other assistive devices for chronic low back pain. It found eight small trials, 501 people, and not one study that recorded whether anyone fell.
Sep 5, 2026
Why the pain score they ask for said the least about how the fibromyalgia week went
Two studies published a day apart counted the symptoms nobody scores. In both of them, the pain rating was not the number carrying the information.
Sep 4, 2026
Why the foot that catches on a threshold is usually not the foot that lifted too low
In 200 older adults, those scored at higher fall risk cleared small obstacles just as high as everyone else. What differed was how fluently they got across.
Sep 2, 2026
Why the movement practice you keep through menopause is usually the one you enjoy
Eighteen women aged 40 to 60 describe building their own menopause toolkits, and what decided which parts they kept was not the evidence.
Sep 1, 2026
Nobody asked about your joints at the headache appointment, and that may matter
A narrative review published on 25 August says naming joint hypermobility widens the differential for headache. Three questions worth taking with you.
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