Category: Resources

muscle knot, muscle tightness
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Why your muscle knot is a problem. No, it’s not what you think.

It's fair to describe your symptom experience as a muscle knot. As a chiropractor, I often hear clients talk about their tightness that needs to be released. However, this is often a problem. Your muscles do not get caught in a knot. While chiropractor Jesse Cai may have stretched necks in his early days of [...]
disc herniation, spinal degeneration
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Why an enactive approach to pain treatment may be what you need

The main focus of my work in clinical practice is chronic pain. While I do still work with athletes and help people with return to sports, most people who seek out my services are patients who have lived with back pain or neck pain for many years. Why pain theories are important to you. In [...]
chiropractor singapore, pain solution, jesse cai
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Is your chronic pain a lifestyle disease: a behavioural approach to recovery

It's not unimaginable that a sedentary lifestyle or an overactive lifestyle can both contribute to chronic pain. When you try to make sense of your pain, you probably reason with a structure-based or damage-based narrative. Afterall, this is what most chiropractors or orthopaedic surgeons will talk about even though recent research has vigorously challenged them. [...]
foot stepping on lego, pain science
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The power of deload and why more is not always better

We consistently get over 10,000 visitors to our website on a monthly basis. For perspective, we are the most visited chiropractic website IN THE WORLD. This is only possible because we consistently post up-to-date, quality content. I took a break from writing over the last couple of weeks because I needed rest. It's kind of [...]
chiropractor singapore, jesse cai
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New research (2019 participants) shows manual therapy does not work

We talk so much about exercise because exercise is awesome. It empowers pain suffers to take charge of their own recovery. It allows you to be independent and not have to dependent someone for the rest of your life. Quite often manual therapy such as chiropractic adjustments and massage are said to be good for short-term [...]
kettlebell training, crossfit singapore
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Personal training makes sense because exercise is medicine

The best moments in a chiropractor's career is really about creating meaningful change with and for our clients. How does exercise help with chronic pain? When Phase 2 (HA) started, a client decided to put her sessions with us on old because she was living with her senior, unvaccinated mother. We saw again this week [...]
ng yat chung, umbrage, singapore press holdings
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Dear Straits Times, I take umbrage at your broscience content on back pain

Did anyone manage to get their hands on the Umbrage t-shirt that was on Lazada? Credit: Coconuts Singapore The umbrage incident happened almost two months ago now. While it may be considered old news, it's always a good time to discuss editorial integrity. And if media companies and/or content creators have an obligation to publish [...]
chiropractor singapore, chiropractic first
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Dear Singapore Women’s Weekly, please fact check your chiropractic expert

With such low quality content being published, it's no wonder head and body pain cost us $8.4 billion each year. An entire article featuring a single Singapore chiropractor without any references to support his claim. Unfortunately, this is the quality of writing we are getting today. No wonder pain sufferers are having a hard time [...]
time market, financial health
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Recovery from an investing perspective: Why good data matters

We feel better when we are in control because we think that having control equals good outcomes. When it comes to investing at least, that's totally not true. The Straits Times just published today that 1 in 2 CPF members who use their funds to invest made less than the guaranteed 2.5%. In short, they [...]
secretlab, ian ang, penthouse singapore
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S$2b in valuation! What is so special about Secretlab chairs?

If you haven't already heard Secretlab co-founder Ian Ang just dropped $51 billion on a good class bungalow and a triplex penthouse. His company is valued at a whopping $2 billion dollars! Why does that concern us? Well, he sells chairs! Gaming chairs first, ergonomic chairs second To be super clear, Secretlab is famous for [...]
pope, sciatica singapore
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How do you relieve sciatic nerve pain? Can exercise help?

Sciatica is making the news again with Whoopi Goldberg taking time off because of leg pain. During an interview, she said: “I'm telling you, it's like a bad boyfriend who came back to mess with me. There I was trying to move my leg, impossible to do. It was really horrible, but I'm glad to [...]
manual therapy, recovery model
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What is active versus passive treatments? Is active recovery truly superior?

I think people like to romanticise passive therapies because they have been around for thousands of years. Beyond that, they also make us feel really, really good. So, we want to believe that it works. When it comes to the practitioner's side, it makes sense to do what you are familiar with and to do [...]