“Why am I feeling pins & needles in my feet?”

Oh, I hope you haven’t hurt your back.
There are many reasons why you may have pins and needles in your feet. Most commonly, it’s a drop in blood supply, particularly at night when you’re sleeping when your blood pressure tends to lower and blood rushes away from your periphery (hands and legs) and towards the [...]

“Is it safe to ‘crack’ my own back?”

It’s a bit of a myth that ‘cracking’ anything in your body leads to arthritis.
What a ‘crack’ is when you do it (or when it is done to you), when the joint (where two bones meet), opens suddenly and an air bubble is formed then is pushed out. This creates that cracking sound. The technical [...]

“When I move my shoulder, why do I hear ‘noises’?”

In any case where things don’t seem ‘normal’, the questions a good physiotherapist asks themselves are:

Is this going to cause trouble?
If it is trouble, what is going on?
What led to this trouble?

So, if your shoulder cracks often, it might not cause you any harm or trouble, it could be just ‘your body’, in which case, [...]

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