Movement Pulse
Research and news across back pain, fibromyalgia, hypermobility, posture, sleep, and the Feldenkrais Method, with practitioner's notes from Chava Sorani, GCFP.
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.
Aug 31, 2026
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, 2026Ready to start moving better?
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