Recently, a student said something to me that I suspect many people can relate to. She has been told that improving her posture might help with her pain, so she has become increasingly vigilant about how she sits and stands. Am I sitting up straight enough? Are my shoulders in the right place? Is my…
Here are some much anticipated, but long overdue, updates about my ACL recovery (see healacl.com and my previous posts: Kicking off the New Year with a “Bang!”, Breaking Away from the Path Well Traveled, and The Paradox of Placebo) Now that I’m up and running, and done dealing with my bracing protocol, and busy getting…
After almost 2 decades of clinical research in the areas of pain and Parkinson’s disease, I have come to strongly believe that the placebo effect (and it’s opposite: nocebo) are way too often underestimated and under-appreciated. In the studies I was involved with (for pain and for Parkinson’s disease), placebo was a significant effect that…
This is a follow-up to my post from Jan 16. Why, you might ask, am I in a surgical brace now, despite being able to walk just fine 2 weeks ago? A lot has happened (especially in my head) over the last couple of weeks, but first, let me step back a bit to the…
Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a better start than mine. This is how I got down the hill at the end of my last day of skiing for 2025. After 43 years of skiing, with hypermobile joints and a love for powder and moguls, I was really very lucky to…