Turning down the dial on pain - a helpful checklist of actionable lifestyle modifications you can do to reduce your chronic pain during a flare-up.

Why is strength important?

Tolerance to load - minimises the risk of injury. Injuries happen, but perhaps less severe or preventable if you have the tolerance to deal with the load - which you can improve if you lift weights.

Why muscle mass is important to health…

Hormone regulation? Padding for falls, Strength associated with muscle mass required to carry out day to day tasks. Improved rtolerance to new activities or novel activties … think spring cleaning the garden after months of not working in the garden.

Other blog ideas include:

• performance does not mean health. we are sometimes lead to believe that sports is healthy, but its not. there are some crossovers.

• Back cracking and the use of manual therapy. Not as good as you think, but sometimes useful.

• Why is exercise so good in therapy- can mitigate deconditioning of surrounding tissues.