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14/09/2026

Can you release your own fascia? The answer is yes. 🖐️

Thumb pain isn’t always a joint problem — it’s often a fascia problem hiding in plain sight.

There are several fascial lines and points that can become congested and create joint-like pain in your thumb, especially if you’re doing repetitive gripping, typing, or fine motor work day after day.

Here’s one of the most commonly identified points causing that nagging, repetitive thumb pain — and how you can start releasing it yourself.

We’ll also show you how to properly stretch your thumb. Stretching isn’t just for your hamstrings and quads — dexterity needs looking after too if you want your hands to keep up with you long-term. 💪

Try it, and let us know how it feels.

05/09/2026

Most back pain isn’t a strength problem. It’s a compression problem.

Here’s something that doesn’t add up:

There are millions of people walking around weaker than you who don’t have back pain.

You’ve played sport. You garden. You walk for miles. By every conventional measure, your posterior chain should be “strong enough.” Yet you’ve probably been told your lower back is weak — and that the fix is to strengthen it further.

That doesn’t make sense. And for a lot of people, it’s the wrong diagnosis entirely.

If the fascia around your spine is tight and compressed, loading it with more strength work doesn’t fix the problem — it can tighten the compression further.

What actually needs to happen:
→ The fascia needs releasing
→ The spine needs opening, not bracing
→ Your glutes, hamstrings, and upper back need to be trained correctly — so they take the load off your lower back instead of dumping it there

I can map exactly which fascia lines are compressed in your back in under 10 minutes.

If your back pain hasn’t responded to “just get stronger,” this might be why.

📩 DM me or book an assessment — link in bio.

30/08/2026

Is Acetaldehyde the reason why you feel rubbish after drinking alcohol?

Ever wonder why alcohol leaves you feeling so off? 🍷 A big part of it comes down to acetaldehyde — a toxic byproduct your liver has to work hard to clear every time you drink. The more you ask it to process, the more it shows up in how you feel the next day.

It’s also worth knowing that healthy, mobile visceral fascia supports peristalsis — helping your gut keep things moving and functioning as they should.

Little reminders like this are worth sitting with. Your body’s telling you something — maybe it’s worth listening 💛

17/08/2026

Your knee pain probably isn’t a knee problem.

Scan shows mild osteoarthritis or “some degeneration”? For most people, that’s an incidental finding — not the reason you’re in pain.

The real driver is usually tight, condensed fascia compressing the nerve endings and pain receptors around the joint.

Here’s the giveaway: if you’re a runner, in the garden every weekend, or generally active, the “weak knee” story doesn’t hold up. A truly weak knee wouldn’t let you do half of what you’re doing. What you’re actually feeling is an imbalance — tight fascia and overworked muscles creating that giving-way sensation, an artificial weakness rather than a real one.

So people do the obvious thing — strengthen the knee. But the quad is already the dominant player. Loading it further just pulls more attention (and more compensation) onto a joint that was never the actual problem.

The fix is usually further away than you’d expect: hamstrings, hip flexors, calves, ankles. Bring the balance back to the whole chain, and the knee stops having to shout for attention.

05/08/2026

“Period Pain? Look Further Than You’d Think”

“Free assessment at InPeak, Alderley Edge”

Could an old ankle injury be the cause behind your daughter’s period pain?
An old injury — a sprained ankle, a fall, a knock years ago — can leave scar tissue in the fascia. Over time, that tightness spreads up the fascial line and can end up pulling on the fascia around the reproductive organs, creating the kind of pressure that leads to pain.
At InPeak, every assessment starts with finding the root cause, not just treating the symptom. Find out more and book your free assessment on our website. inpeak.co.uk.

Learn More 👉🏼
https://www.inpeak.co.uk/period-pain

19/07/2026

Pain on the inside of your elbow? 👇

This is a classic sign of golfer’s elbow (and sometimes tennis elbow too).

There’s a dense patch of collagen fibres right around the inside of your wrist and elbow. Overuse from sport, typing, texting — even just gripping stuff all day — can cause this area to tighten up.

When it does, the fascia lines running through it lose their elasticity and stop gliding properly. That tightness can spread pain and discomfort up the arm, and in some cases even trap nerves along the way — which is often part of the picture with carpal tunnel symptoms too.

Stretching this area properly is one of the best things you can do to release it and get things moving again.

Try the stretch in the video and let me know how it feels 👊

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08/07/2026

Ever wondered why your IBS symptoms seemed to come from nowhere?

At InPeak, the pattern we keep seeing again and again is that the trigger isn’t random. Specific traumas to the fascia system, old injuries, surgeries, accidents, even emotional stress held in the body, can lay the groundwork for IBS to develop years later.

If you’ve been living with IBS and never got a straight answer as to why, get in touch for a free assessment and I’ll tell you honestly whether fascia treatment could help you.

🌱 inpeak.co.uk
🌱 inpeak.co.uk/ibs-study

Or send a message through the website and I’ll get a link straight over to you.

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05/07/2026

The Overhead Split Squat: the anti-chair exercise 🏔️

Sitting all day pulls your body into one shape: hips flexed, shoulders rounded, spine compressed.

This move does the exact opposite.

✅ Thoracic extension — you open up through the upper back
✅ Shoulders pulled back as you drive the pole overhead
✅ Hip flexors lengthen while hip, knee and ankle all move through full range
✅ Spinal traction as you reach up and through
✅ Unilateral loading — training each leg independently, just like real gait

The carryover? Better stride length, less stiffness, and a body that moves the way it’s meant to — whether you’re sprinting, walking the dog, or just trying to get off the sofa without wincing.

One exercise. Full-body reset.

01/07/2026

Watching your daughter curl up in pain every month, missing school or cancelling plans because of period pain — it’s hard to feel like there’s nothing more you can do beyond a hot water bottle and painkillers. 🩸

Here’s something most people don’t know: period pain and back pain share the same nerve supply. Often what looks like “just bad periods” is actually connected to an old back issue — or the period pain itself is showing up as lower back pain. Once we know the order these started in, we can usually tell which one’s the real cause.

At InPeak, we treat the root cause using fascia-led therapy, and most people see real improvement in period pain in under 4 sessions.

If your daughter (or you) has been struggling with period pain, we offer a free assessment to find out if this is something we can help with — no pressure, just clarity on what’s really going on.

📍 Find out more: inpeak.co.uk/period-pain
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28/06/2026

Your knee is “not meant” to go over your ankle? Myth.

This one gets repeated constantly — and it’s holding people back from building real knee resilience.

When your knee tracks over your ankle (think Peterson step-ups), you’re loading the tendons around the knee and activating the VMO — the inside quad muscle that’s chronically underworked in most people’s training.

The further the knee travels over the ankle, the more the VMO gets switched on.

Got knee pain? You’ve still got options:
→ Reduce the range of motion
→ Add more support through the pole
→ Or you may have a fascia/muscle imbalance that needs releasing before you load the knee this way

Here’s the bit people miss: your knee goes over your ankle every single time you walk up stairs, downstairs, or downhill. Avoiding it in training doesn’t protect your knees — it just leaves them undertrained for movement you do every day.

If you’re an athlete, or you actually care about long-term knee health, this is exactly the kind of loading you need.

Train the movement, not the myth.

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Alderley Edge Medical Centre
Alderley Edge
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