Clinical Articles & Guides
From the Blog
Evidence-based guides on rehabilitation, injury prevention, and how to get the most from your physiotherapy — written by the Move team.
Tendinopathy
The 10 don'ts of tendon rehab
Professor Jill Cook's landmark research on tendon rehab distilled into 10 clear rules — what not to do, and why each one keeps tripping people up.
Pain Science
What actually is a tight muscle?
Simple English would make you think a tight muscle has contracted and shortened. The reality is more interesting — and it changes everything about how we treat it.
Rheumatology
When joint pain isn't what it seems
Rheumatoid arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory back pain and the crystal arthropathies can hide behind a musculoskeletal presentation. The patterns that distinguish them.
Movement Screen
Are your glutes actually weak?
Three home tests with research-based norms to find out whether your glutes are actually weak. Plus the evidence on why glute strength matters.
Healthy Ageing
Healthspan over lifespan
A personal letter from Borneo. My parents are approaching their 70s — and what determines the next decade is not lifespan, it is healthspan. Here is what I am asking them to do, and the evidence behind it.
Heel Pain
Plantar fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis is a load tolerance problem, not an inflammatory one. The evidence has shifted toward active loading and kinetic chain assessment. Here's what actually works — and why physiotherapy should be your first stop.
Knee Pain
Does stretching your ITB do anything?
Most runners with ITB pain are told to stretch and foam roll it. But the ITB is not a muscle — and the research on what stretching does to it is not what most people expect.
Osteoarthritis
"Bone on bone" knees
If you've been told you have 'bone on bone' knees, you probably walked out of that appointment thinking your knee is finished. It almost certainly isn't.
Supplements
Anti-inflammatory supplements
An honest look at curcumin, fish oil, and glucosamine for joint pain — only RCTs and systematic reviews. We're a physio clinic. We don't sell supplements. Here's who should actually be taking them.
Running
Runner's knee
A deep dive into patellofemoral pain — the contributing causes, how to keep running with less pain, and how to actually fix the underlying problem.
Manual Therapy
Is dry needling worth it?
The honest, evidence-based answer on dry needling — what it does, where it works, and why it should never be the whole treatment.
Group Exercise
Why group classes work
Small groups, real supervision, progressive loading, and genuine accountability. The clinical case for group rehab.
Return to Sport
ACL rehab: 9 months is a floor
Why returning to sport at 9 months is based on guesswork — unless you've met objective criteria.
Tendon Rehab
Collagen for tendon injuries
Promising structural evidence, inconclusive clinical outcomes, and why dose and timing matter more than most people realise.
Bone Stress
Shin splints in runners
The stages from MTSS to stress fracture, how to differentiate them clinically, and when to get an MRI.
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