Movement Pulse
Research and news across back pain, fibromyalgia, hypermobility, posture, sleep, and the Feldenkrais Method, with practitioner's notes from Chava Sorani, GCFP.
The exercise rules for osteoporosis are precise, and meeting them did not predict results
Eighteen trials, 1,181 women. The two tests that improved were both transitions. The one that measures holding still did not reliably move at all.
Aug 30, 2026
Why twenty two years of research on imagining movement for back pain still says maybe
Large effects, very low certainty, and a direction that has not changed since 2004. What the arc of imagined movement research actually adds up to.
Aug 29, 2026
Your head sits forward and your breath feels shallow, but the lung test came back normal
A new case control study measured breathing three different ways in people with forward head posture. The measurement everyone expected to fail was the one that held up.
Aug 28, 2026
Why clenching a muscle helps you let it go, and what a new sleep review could not settle
A pooled analysis of fourteen randomized trials found that tensing and releasing muscles improved how adults rated their sleep. Doing more did not do more.
Aug 27, 2026
Why the fear of moving and the confidence to move seem to pull each other along
A new analysis in Pain, drawn from a trial of 521 adults, tracks how the pieces of recovery move each other week by week.
Aug 26, 2026
In 18 sciatica injection trials, the people who got salt water kept getting better
Saline was supposed to be the inert comparator. Across 759 patients it was not. Three questions worth taking to your next appointment.
Aug 25, 2026
Patients rated massage and opioids as their most helpful chronic pain treatments
A retrospective review asked 226 chronic pain patients to rate 56 treatments they had tried. The top of the list runs from massage to oxycodone, and the arrangement is the interesting part.
Aug 24, 2026
Why moving in the evening may matter less for your sleep than how hard you move
A review of 25 comparative studies found no clear group level advantage for morning exercise. The signal that did survive was about intensity, not the hour.
Aug 24, 2026
The APA pain guideline backs exercise, then declines to say which kind is better
A summary of the APA's chronic musculoskeletal pain guideline has just appeared in American Psychologist. Its first line list is short and firm. Almost every comparison between one movement approach and another came back as insufficient evidence.
Aug 23, 2026
The body awareness that fades with age is not the body awareness that predicts function
Four studies across eleven years have quietly taken apart the idea that interoception is one ability sliding down one curve.
Aug 22, 2026
A lumbar belt eased back pain in a new trial. How much people moved did not change
A multicenter trial put a soft lumbar belt against usual care for 12 weeks. The belt group improved more, and the secondary results are the interesting part.
Aug 21, 2026
Stiff most mornings? What the largest review of tai chi and qigong actually found
A new BJSM umbrella review grades the evidence for tai chi, qigong and related practices across 1,744 trials. Plus a five minute weight shift experiment.
Aug 20, 2026Ready to start moving better?
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