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17/09/2026

Todays TED talk!

The importance of a regulated nervous system is often over looked.

If this resonates with you head to www.thelifestylephysio.co.nz to book an appointment.

Yours in health
Jen x

The Rural Ramble - new parents edition. What a glorious morning. We started with a baby massage session with Mel ActiveW...
15/09/2026

The Rural Ramble - new parents edition.
What a glorious morning.
We started with a baby massage session with Mel ActiveWorx Health Hawke's Bay so many takeaways both for baby and mum.
We had a delicious, dedicant, morning tea from Kate de Lautour .
We took in the sunshine as I talked all things p*e, poo, s*x and exercise for postpartum. So many great questions from the group.
We walked the beautiful grounds Taniwha Daffodils
Covered of the basics of Pelvic floor muscle training in a class. Then dined out on Kate de Lautour salads.

So lovely to see all the mums and bubs connecting.
We truly hope you had a relaxing morning and took away some new nuggets of information to make life easier.

Next Ramble is booked in for Friday 30th October. This is a mini retreat with womens health topics at the centre, farm walk, and ofcourse devine food and setting.
Save the date.

Yours in health,
Jen x

10/09/2026

Todays yarn.

Who knew social media would be easier if you just chatted like you do to your patients.

This came up twice in clinic today. Just as a side yarn about females in sport. I have a passion for all people, but especially females, participating in lifelong exercise / movement / sport.

This is not intended to add another to do list to your childs training, it hopefully just plants a seed to think is my child covering strength, plyometric, power, balance and neuromuscular training? If not, have a conversation with her coaches and providers.

Doesn't have to take long or be overly complicated.

09/09/2026

What rep range should I use?

It does depend on what you are trying to achieve.

But without getting to bogged down in the complexities of reps and set ranges, a great take away for those not consessairs of resistance training is knowing if you train with intent you will get results*.

RPE - rate of percieved exertion is a quick and easy self assessment tool to see how hard you are working. You want to be hitting 8/10 (once trained).

Heavier weight obviously trains strength more efficiently. If I'm trying to achieve certain goals - like bone density improvements I want to get to heavy loads with a client as quickly as safely possible. As a heavier load puts more mechanical strain (torsion) on the bone**. But lower load, higher rep can still get you there. It takes longer, but it means you now have options. It also means more access to resistance training so that is a win.

So if you are just starting out the takeaway is choose a rep range you are comfortable with, that works with the equipment you have at hand. Just make sure you are pushing to RPE 8/10 after you are familiar with the movements.

Got questions? Hit me up.

*Schoenfeld, B.J., Grgic, J., Ogborn, D., & Krieger, J.W. (2017). Strength and Hypertrophy Adaptations Between Low- vs. High-Load Resistance Training: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 31(12), 3508–3523.

**Watson, S.L., Weeks, B.K., Weis, L.J., Horan, S.A., & Beck, B.R. (2018). High-Intensity Resistance and Impact Training Improves Bone Mineral Density and Physical Function in Postmenopausal Women With Osteopenia and Osteoporosis: The LIFTMOR Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 33(2), 211–220.

My mate Claude did help me find the citations. But I wrote this caption all by myself.

World Physiotherapy Day 🎉Cheers to the 16-year-old me who filled out all those physio school applications.24 years later...
08/09/2026

World Physiotherapy Day 🎉

Cheers to the 16-year-old me who filled out all those physio school applications.

24 years later, that decision has given me a career I’m genuinely passionate about, the flexibility to show up for my family, and more tangents within this profession than I ever imagined I’d get to explore. Being a “perpetual student” used to terrify me — now it’s the thing that excites me most (except for the cost of it!)

But the best part? I get to help people, all day, every day.

Happy World Physiotherapy Day to everyone doing this work with us. 🙌

After some wonderful time at Plus Rehab CHB, I’ve made the decision to step back from my role there.I really enjoyed my ...
07/09/2026

After some wonderful time at Plus Rehab CHB, I’ve made the decision to step back from my role there.

I really enjoyed my time at Plus Rehab CHB. Being surrounded by such a passionate, experienced team of physios was great. Getting to understand the numerous and diverse roles they play in our community has been wonderful, and it’s given me a real appreciation for how we can collaborate to create more streamlined care for our patients.

I’m stepping away to put my full focus into growing my own physiotherapy business, The Lifestyle Physio, and to keep building out my community health and agritourism initiatives — Muster and The Rural Ramble.

Thank you to the whole Plus Rehab team for having me.
A special thank-you to Rach, my very first mentor and guiding light in physiotherapy.
We will continue to work as a team and it is very common for us to see the same clients at different stages of their care pathway.
I simply can not be in two places at once (even though I would like to be in three!!!)

Learning to walk the talk!
Yours in health,
Jen x

Plus Rehab CHB

04/09/2026

Looking to take your skills, confidence and development to the next level? 💪

Our MSLCT Athlete Development Programme is coming to Central Hawke’s Bay for Term 4! Check out the link to find out more about the programme and how to register.

Secure your spot today! 🏉🔥
https://mslct.co.nz/programmes/athlete-development-programme/

04/09/2026

Always rushing to p*e mid set even though you just went?
This can be urge incontinence. The reel highlights some tricks we can use to start managing and improving symptoms.

03/09/2026

Marrying anti rotation work, isometric holds and some kiwi inguinity to get a Golf swing swinging.
Now this is just one step in a process.
But imagine pain stopping you from doing your favourite thing. The ability to do it, even for a short time, pain free is amazing. The joy returns.

Got pain holding you back?
Head to www.thelifestylephysio.co.nz to make an appointment.

*shared with consent

31/08/2026

Why It Takes 17 Years for Research to Become Practice

There's a number that gets thrown around in health research circles, and once you know it, you can't stop noticing it: 17 years.

That's the average time it takes for a new clinical finding to go from "published study" to "standard practice" (Balas & Boren, 2000; confirmed again by Morris, Wooding & Grant, 2011, J R Soc Med). Seventeen years. Not months. Not one guideline update. Nearly two decades.

So why so slow?

It's not that the evidence isn't good enough. Usually one trial isn't enough — a finding needs to be replicated, ideally by different research groups, before anyone with authority will act on it.

Guidelines move in committees, not moments. Professional bodies don't update recommendations off a single paper. They wait, review, debate, and publish — and that process alone can eat years.

Training lags behind guidelines.Once a guideline changes, it still has to filter into university curricula, CPD courses, and textbooks. Clinicians who graduated before the update often never see it unless they go looking.

And clinicians have to unlearn, not just learn. This is the slow part. Osteoporosis is a great example: for years the advice was "avoid heavy loading, it's fragile bone, be gentle." Then trials like LIFTMOR (Beck et al.) showed heavy resistance training was not only safe but effective at building bone density. That evidence has been around for years now — and plenty of clinicians and patients are still working off the old "be careful, go gentle" script, because unlearning a belief you've built a career on is harder than learning a new one.

Patient-facing messaging catches up last of all.By the time "lift heavy, it's good for your bones" reaches general public health messaging, the research is often a decade or more old.

The gap isn't a failure of science. It's the cost of caution built into a system that would rather be slow and right than fast and wrong.

*Claude did help write this caption. This is a normal 40 year old face without smoke&mirrors 🤣😂

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