Noah Mandel Physio

09/16/2026

It poured rain our entire wedding day.

It didn’t matter at all.

Getting to marry each other and having our incredible family and friends around allowed us to have the best day of our lives despite the downpour.

Then we got to go to Peru and Colombia.

Just feeling so lucky and grateful.

09/15/2026

09/10/2026

Swipe for memes and some thoughts on knee pain.

09/09/2026

Maybe some painful situations should be less about pain relief and more about acceptance.

Shoutout to Angus Bradley for the good points he’s been making.

09/08/2026

Clinicians can become discouraged once they find out that their theories may be incorrect.

We might think “nothing matters”.

I think the healthier and more accurate belief that we should get is that many things can help and we have more options than we previously thought.

09/05/2026

What tips would you add to help people manage their pain better?

06/25/2026

Physios, don’t forget about the basics and get good at them.

Injured folks, the answer usually doesn’t need to be complicated.

06/23/2026

Not all ACL injuries need to be operated on!

The current education I often give to most patients is that it is okay to wait to make a decision to get ACL reconstruction. The first priorities after injury should be to control the swelling, restore range of motion, and try to rebuild strength.

Some people end up being quite happy with how they feel after rehabbing their knee and opt to go without the surgery - which is okay!

Others don’t do that well or may just feel better about getting the surgery done - which is also okay!

The goal is to give people the knowledge and tools to make their own informed decision.

06/08/2026

The goal of this post is to help at least one of you get a little more into cardio.

It’s really good for you and if you just lift weights or do yoga, you’re leaving some health benefits out of the equation.

06/04/2026

It’s not hard to find someone online who claims to have all the answers for solving pain.

Meanwhile, when you speak to one of the leading experts in tendon pain like Peter Malliaris ( ), you learn a few things:

1. For tendon pain, specificity of exercise prescription does not seem to matter much.

2. Exercise is not necessarily the gold standard for pain - many treatments can help with pain.

3. It’s unclear what needs to change in order for someone’s pain to improve.

So, when someone seems to have all the answers, be skeptical…

Because even those that study these things for a leaving are not sure yet.