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Slipped Disc Treatment in Singapore (2024)

"Slipped disc" can be very scary. Its name suggests you have permanent damage in your spine. Maybe you even think you have to live in pain for the rest of your life.  Maybe you have been told you will never run or squat again. What if I told you none of this is true? This [...]
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Nine High Value Tips for your Tendon Pain: From a Chiropractor’s Perspective

We know tendon pain is awful. You start to miss your weekly tennis practice or evening runs. You may not be able to turn a door knob or open a sauce jar without help. Tendon injuries can be intrusive to our daily lives. Today we give you nine tips to help you through your journey to a full, functional, and happy life.

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11 Best Recommendations for your Musculoskeletal Pain and Low Back Pain

It has been all too busy but I thought I will drop by real quick and do a short post on the paper What does best practice care for musculoskeletal pain look like? Eleven consistent recommendations from high-quality CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES. There are quite a bit of good stuff in there but we will briefly [...]
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Understanding Pain: What Is Pain Neuroscience Education?

Most chronic pain sufferers I work with want to get straight into the "treatment" aspect of recovery. That is to get the exercises going, to get them strong and fit again so they can return to their daily lives without pain. That is a great attitude towards chronic pain management. The can-do, let's-go, take-action mentality [...]
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Sport Injuries: 7 Low Back Truths Every Athlete Should Know

We all know some one who have had a low back injury from sports. Maybe you yourself are recovering from low back pain. Today we want to share with you 10 truths (references included) everyone should know about their low back.

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Four Things Your Singapore Chiropractor Doesn’t Want You To Know

We know finding the right chiropractor in Singapore can be frustrating. We blogged about cheap chiropractors previously and today we are going to focus on the clinical aspects of what to look for in a good chiropractor! We hope this helps.

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Why Your Pain Hurts: From a Bayesian Brain Approach

If you have been following our blog for a while, you would know we highly, highly emphasise that pain does not equal to damage. This is confusing to most people because we think of our symptoms in the biomedical model. What if we are wrong?

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We can’t tell your future, but we can make educated predictions

Most pain sufferers want concrete answers in their recovery. Is this going to make my pain go away 100%? Unfortunately, as a chiropractor, I don't have the definite answer to that. We can make predictions about what is most likely to happen but we can't say for sure what exactly will happen. This uncertainty is [...]
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Your recovery is always not what you expect

Because we don't follow a cookie cutter approach at Square One Active Recovery, what we do with each client is often unique and outside of the client's expectation. We always emphasised that if you want really good results, you must engage in radical change. This is where the unexpectedness lies. Having a working mental approach [...]
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Why working on a fixed project basis ultimately benefits you

The unique difference between us and other chiropractic clinics is that we work on a fixed programme basis. Every case we take on is a unique project that we work with over 12 weeks or 6 months. Some pain patients think that it's no difference from a chiropractic package. However, that is not true as [...]
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Understanding Mindfulness For Chronic Pain: A Neuroscience Perspective

If you are hard-science person considering mindfulness practice as a pain management strategy, this is for you. With research around neuroscience behind chronic pain and mindfulness practice, I hope to answer to questions from an evidence-based perspective. What is chronic pain? What is mindfulness? How to manage pain? How does pain make people change their [...]
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Understanding Change: The Hard Recovery vs The Easy Recovery

When it comes to living with chronic pain, most patients are aware that something must change for them to get better. Most people with back pain or neck pain start with changing their posture. When the self-directed intervention doesn't work, they seek the help of professionals such as chiropractors or maybe massage therapists for some [...]