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15/06/2026

If you want help comment ‘email’ for my series on pain 🫡

13/06/2026

This shoulder has a subscapularis injury.

One of the key muscles that stabilises the front of the shoulder.

When that muscle can’t do its job, the nervous system looks for help. So it turns up the upper trap to guard the joint and create a sense of stability.

That’s why the trap feels constantly tight. It twitches under pressure. Releasing it helps… but never holds.

The trap isn’t the problem. It’s covering for something else.

Until the subscap is helping the shoulder again, the trap keeps stepping in.

13/06/2026

Comment ‘physio’ and see how I can help you out

11/06/2026

Your biceps might not actually be the problem.

I see this all the time.

Someone’s biceps feels tight, sore, or constantly needs releasing. They massage it, stretch it, dig into it… and it feels great for a few hours.

Then it comes straight back.

Sometimes the issue is actually the triceps.

The biceps and triceps work as a team around the elbow. If the nervous system is using the triceps to create extra stability, it often won’t let the biceps fully switch off.

So you end up chasing the symptom instead of the reason it’s there.

The body isn’t always trying to create more strength.

Sometimes it’s just trying to feel safer.

When you improve the stability problem, the muscle that’s been holding tension can finally let go.

That’s when treatment tends to last.

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10/06/2026

Sounds harsh. But here’s the thing.

Your knee is a hinge. It mostly does what it’s told. And the thing telling it what to do is your hip.

When your hip can’t control the position of your thigh, your knee collapses inward every step, every squat, every landing. Then it complains. And you blame the knee.

It’s not the victim’s fault.

The Copenhagen plank is one of the best ways to build that control. It loads your adductors, the muscles on the inside of your thigh that help steer your femur and keep your pelvis level.

Most people have never trained them once. Then they wonder why their knees feel rubbish on stairs, runs and squats.

Start here:

Knee on the bench, short lever. Hold 20 to 30 seconds. 3 rounds, twice a week.

Shaking at 8 seconds? That’s the gap. That’s what we’re fixing.

Build the control. Let your knees off the hook.

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07/06/2026

Chronically weak adductors often tighten to create stability.

That tightness rotates the femur, changes joint loading, and the pain shows up somewhere else entirely.

Which is why stretching never fixes it. You’re chasing the symptom, not the cause.

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06/06/2026

Before I start, I’ve got a course coming out on how to release tight muscles off yourself the right way.

Comment ‘waitlist’ and I’ll add you to the email list.

Anyway…

Your hamstrings aren’t tight because they’re short.

They’re tight because your pelvis is pulling them taut before you even move.

Most people sit in an anterior pelvic tilt. Around 80% of us. Normal. Not a problem on its own.

But tight hip flexors and quads pull the pelvis further forward. Your hamstring attaches at the base of that pelvis. So it’s already on stretch, at rest.

Your lower back plays into it too. The spine and pelvis move as one unit. Over-arch and the pelvis tips forward, pulling the hamstring taut from the top. Flatten it out and the pelvis tucks under, dragging on the hamstring from the other end. Either way it’s loaded before you move.

Then you stretch it more. You’re just pulling harder on something that’s already being pulled.

The fix isn’t the hamstrings. It’s the hip flexors and quads. Loosen those. Strengthen the glutes. The pelvis settles. The hamstrings follow.

05/06/2026

Nobody loses 2 stone in a day. So why expect your pain gone in one session?

05/06/2026

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