14 ARTICLES
Injury & Pain
Some clients are signed off to exercise but bring an injury, an illness or pain with them. This is how you research and work with them, safely and inside your scope, and take them back to performance.
Build A Game Around The Movement Your Client Avoids
Games for Pain teaches you to turn a movement a client guards against into a game, so they do more of it than a standard, instruction-led session ever gets.
Be the Trainer Other Trainers Refer Their Hard Cases To
A client cleared to train but carrying injury, illness or pain is a different job. Injury Recovery to Performance takes them back to full performance.
Read a joint's real range of motion properly, and know straight away whether it's injury risk or just how she's built
A joint that moves differently from the textbook is not an injury waiting to happen. Level 3 names reading joint structure and range as core knowledge.
The rep they always cut short is protecting something you can't see
One exercise, every session, cut short. It isn't laziness. Games for Pain is built for the client whose body remembers pain, and it removes the guard.
A client guarding against movement isn't being difficult. Their nervous system is doing exactly what it's built to do
Guarding a once-painful movement is a reflex, not a lack of effort. Games for Pain builds games around that movement, so the guard drops without an argument.
Abdominal exercise does not make diastasis worse
The research reviews are in: abdominal training does not worsen diastasis recti. The rectus sheath is intact, connective tissue heals, and the words trainers choose matter more than the finger-width test.
Pain Science: The Role of the Non-Medical Trainer
Pain is an experience, not a simple readout of tissue damage. That single idea redraws the line between trainer and clinician — and puts your language, delivery and design of experience at the centre of the job.
Everybody Hurts — If You Listen to Personal Trainers
I used to find a dysfunction in every client and sell the fix. Here's the honest rethink of injury prevention, pain and performance — and how to define the vague words we hide behind.
The Biopsychosocial Filter, Part 2
The honest story of unlearning the biomedical model — and why every solution you give a client passes through a biopsychosocial filter, even a simple one.
The Biopsychosocial Filter, Part 1
How a good client result made me feel like a fraud — and how the biopsychosocial model finally explained what my hands-on 'fixes' were really doing.
Falling for Curing
The honest story of how I became a 'guru' who fixed people with posture, fascia and symmetry — and how reading the research properly forced me to bin all of it.
Pain Is a Feeling, Not an Output
Stop calling pain an 'output'. Pain is a feeling — an interpretation of filtered feedback — and understanding that changes everything about how you help clients who hurt.
Posture, Fascia, Pain and Other Manipulations
Every new discovery becomes a bandwagon in this industry. Here's why the real problem isn't fascia or posture — it's who gets to set the questions.
How to Train a Client in Pain
More clients arrive in pain but cleared to train — and training often helps them. Here's how to approach programming so pain becomes a hurdle to the goal, not the whole focus.
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