Break the cycle of pain: Podcast

Let's talk about feet. Prevention, adaptation and solutions part 3.

May 30, 2019
3 min

Let's talk about feet. Prevention, adaptation and solutions part 3.

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Spreaker, iTunes Podcast. In this episode tips and suggestions are shared to prevent foot dysfunction other consequences discussed in our previous episodes. Tip 1 : don't wear the same pair of shoes everyday, if you have different pair change and switch day by day the one you are wearing. If you are driving or walking to work :maybe wear trainers and when you get to work switch to your nicer shoes. If you have to

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Aiza Ismaila

May 10, 2019
4 min

Let's talk about feet and heels part 2.

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Spreaker iTunes Podcast. Leonardo Da vinci said "the human foot is a master piece of engineering and a work of art". Why do we love how we look in heels? Why do we like the look of it so much? Or the look that it's giving to us? Look at this picture, how wearing heels makes our hips curvier, Look how the legs looks longer and leaner, how wearing heels exaggerate our lumbar curvature which makes us compensate with

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Aiza Ismaila

May 5, 2019
6 min

Let's talk about feet part 1.

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes Podcast. In this episode I talk about feet and shoes and why it is important, as I believe we take our feet for granted. We have 26 bones, 33 joints and 100 muscles just to control our foot, for some reason the way our shoes are shaped, compromise our foot mobility and restrain from the right firing order to be done when we walk which over time make cause bunions, and toes deformities such as ha

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The difference between a sedentary vs active life style and the risk of injury.

Aiza Ismaila

Apr 25, 2019
3 min

The difference between a sedentary vs active life style and the risk of injury.

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes Podcast. I often hear clients not willing to be active because it will prevent them from getting an injury. Before starting a new intense physical activity is always best to maybe see your GP mainly if you have been sedentary for years to make sure you are healthy enough to start a new physical activity. I will highly recommend the assistance of a coach, someone qualified to help you start this

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The use of heat therapy for pain management.

Aiza Ismaila

Mar 13, 2019
2 min

The use of heat therapy for pain management.

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes Podcast. Thermotherapy or the use of heat can be a fantastic pain management approach. First of all the heat therapy must not be used after a trauma, a fall or an accident, as after a trauma you should seek for medical advice. However, when you experience stiffness, tension and pain non trauma related it would be a great approach. Indeed in this podcast above, I mentioned the different forms of

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Episode 7: If your back hurt it's your butt's fault.

Aiza Ismaila

Mar 3, 2019
3 min

Episode 7: If your back hurt it's your butt's fault.

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes Podcast. As we spend some time seated in our society from a very young age... We are decreasing the activation of our glutes muscles, as a consequence other groups of muscle are overworking and causing compensation. Vladimir Janda discovered that his clients complaining of low back presented this pattern of tightness and weakness. Because we spend so much time sitting, our hipflexors are neurolo

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Aiza Ismaila

Jan 31, 2019
4 min

Episode 6: Motion is lotion.

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes Podcast. If you don't use it, you will lose it. First reflex we have when we are going through pain is to rest, passive rest, no movement, very little activity to not trigger that pain again, to be fair our nervous system is already taking care of this and tensing up everything, this muscle guarding is to not create that pain, but is this limited motion beneficial in the end? Before we carry on

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Aiza Ismaila

Jan 26, 2019
2 min

Episode 5: what's sport massage?

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes Podcast. Some people have a misconception about what's sport massage? Thinking it is for athletes, active people only (or a painful treatment check episode 4 about this). But in fact this treatment has more a medical, therapeutic approach than a holistic massage, it's not a massage only for relaxation, it can be soothing (at least for the techniques that I use) but it is not the initial aim of i

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Episode 4: Is it okay if my massage hurt?

Aiza Ismaila

Jan 22, 2019
2 min

Episode 4: Is it okay if my massage hurt?

To not miss any future episode you can listen and subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes Podcast. Carried from the fitness industry: "no pain no gain" has been applied in the massage therapy industry for decades. Indeed clients have been used to suffer in silence or at least have in their mind if they are going through aches and pains to have them addressed they need to go through some additional pain. Which I believe discourage some people to seek from bodywork. With this "no pain

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Episode 1: Is the use of ice beneficial for our recovery post injury?

Aiza Ismaila

Dec 30, 2018
3 min

Episode 1: Is the use of ice beneficial for our recovery post injury?

Listen or subscribe on Soundcloud or iTunes to not miss future podcast episode. For decades we have been advised to use ice to slow down the inflammation, to slow down the swelling and reduce the pain. But is the use of ice really beneficial? Do we have evidence-based medicine, showing the benefit of the use of ice? For the little story, in May 1962 a 12 year-old boy had an accident and ended up having his arm detached from his body, as he has been brought to hospital and Dr

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