Author: Jesse Cai

A self-proclaimed “not your usual chiropractor”, Jesse believes in using movement as medicine and champions an active lifestyle for a functional and fulfilling life. Jesse, who originally chose to enroll in a Veterinarian School, went on a whirlwind journey through the law department of Murdoch University before settling into its Chiropractic Science course for five years.

Prior to his return to Singapore, Jesse worked closely with high level Australian athletes. This included the Australian Football League as well as various state and national level sporting clubs. He was the Head Sport Trainer for the Forrestfield Football Club, board member of the Sports Chiropractic Australia in 2017, and was a member of Sports Medicine Australia.

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Understanding Value: Why What Is Important To You Matters

When pain sufferers seek treatment, they know they are looking for pain relief. However, what motivates them to seek pain relief isn't always clear to themselves. For most parts, most of us are happy to live with an occasional back pain knowing it will pass without intervention. We go on with life as per normal [...]
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Understanding your relationship with a chiropractor: task vs social

I really do encourage all of you to watch this video. It's rare for a client to be willing to openly share their frustration of working with me. This may be an extreme case of choosing task over social relationship. The thing about working with me is that there's a good chance you'll leave my [...]
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Applying Problem Solving Skills to Chronic Pain

"The idea that patients who appear to improve in the first treatment session will do well longer term is not supported by the literature." Source: Musculoskeletal Science and Practice When it comes to recovery from chronic pain or injury, we have an expectation that we should feel better with each visit. However, research tells us [...]
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Understanding Coaching: Problem-Focused vs Solution-Focused

I am not gonna lie. I didn't coin the phrase solution-focused. If you dabble in the coaching or counseling scene you'd probably have heard of solution-focused coaching/brief coaching or solution-focused brief therapy. They are both founded on the same principles and I've slowly start to adopt them into my work with chronic pain clients. Solution-focused [...]
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Understanding Empowerment: Therapy vs Coaching

Despite the rocky beginning, our client achieved full-symptom resolution with just exercise and education. We teach our clients to finish for their own pain relief. Coaching is our long-term pain solution! Singapore's 1st no-adjustment chiropractor I started as Square One Chiropractic because as a chiropractor that made sense. That was expected of me. Then I [...]
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Sports Massage: Does it improve performance and recovery?

If you are a social media user, you'd have seen lots of ads promoting sports massage. Specifically, that it reduces injury risk, improves recovery, or boost sports performance. These claims are made by physiotherapists and massage therapists alike. However, what does research say? What is sports massage? Sports massage is a general term used to [...]
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Understanding Words: Positive vs Negative Self-Talk

Our client talks about mindset shift. How becoming aware of his negative self-talk led him to a whooping 95% improvement in symptoms just within four weeks of online coaching. I am moving towards what I consider high value content. By that I mean things that are actionable that you can implement in your daily life. [...]
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Understanding Load Management: Exercise vs Rest

The emphasis is always on keeping active and avoiding complete rest even in times of chronic pain or injury. Retrospectively, I now realise that that is not enough for you to make sense of what to do. We'll look at load management today to give you an idea of how keeping active in spite of [...]
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Strength Training For Running (or any other endurance sports)

When it comes to endurance sports such as running or triathlon training, most athletes in Singapore know the value of strength training. Yet at the same time, weight training is poorly prioritise in endurance sports. For most parts, endurance athletes focus largely on their discipline. Marathon runners would almost exclusively run while triathletes would swim, [...]
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What are the 8 core values of person-centred care?

Most of us have very poor understanding of what is high value pain management. When I present data or evidence on how should a person's treatment look, most chronic pain patients tell me that nobody has ever told them before. You may find it strange that my latest blog posts have  been focused on the [...]
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Is Gratitude The New Bullet? Journaling for chronic pain treatment

Calm Collective did a virtual submit on How To Cope Mentally During COVID-19. One of the speakers was Jamie Lee who was the cofounder of The Kind Friend. Her topic specifically was how to use journaling to cope with anxiety. What are the benefits of journaling? There are tons of benefits to gratitude journaling - [...]
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Mindfulness: The Way of a Mindful Warrior by Colleen Lightbody

Dr Colleen Lightbody did a presentation on being mindful as part of the International Coaching Week 2020 program by International Coaching Federation (Singapore). In her presentation, Colleen talked about topics from what it means to be present to complex concepts such as neuroplasticity. It's refreshing to hear about brain science outside of the chronic pain [...]