When you have a (sports) injury, you are often balking and want to know where it went wrong and what you can do about it to prevent it in the future. Many cases involve the strain on the body. So you are asking more of your body that what it can handle (capacity). Endurance vs load...
Research by Jonothan Tsehaie, affiliated with the Xpert Clinic and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, shows that treating patients with osteoarthritis of the thumb using hand therapy and splints results in less pain and improved hand function. Nowadays, (too) many different treatment techniques are used for osteoarthritis of the thumb....
Also this month, we introduce 1 of our professionals! What lies behind the therapist himself? Is he or she a bit sporty himself or herself and what hobbies are there besides work? We asked our colleague Kelsey in the quick-question round-up! Function; Physiotherapist How healthy do you live yourself and what do you pay attention to? I...
On NOS.nl we saw an interesting article about all the 'miracle remedies' being advised online to people with lower back pain. Very often on Google and through Facebook, bite-sized solutions are offered that are often not nearly as effective as the provider would have you believe. Back pain is one of the most common complaints of the...
Hyperventilation... A medical term for breathing too fast. On average, adults breathe ten times a minute. With hyperventilation, this is more than double. When this happens, too much carbon dioxide disappears from your body and too much oxygen is taken in. In acute hyperventilation, you get short of breath, may feel like you are...