Chiropractic Singapore Blog

I started this blog to offer evidence-based chiropractic content so people could make informed-decisions about their pain treatment.

It has since grown to include other topics, in over 200 posts, to provide a true biopsychosocial, whole-person approach to helping you find freedom from pain.

I’ll like to thank the support of my readers — all 10,000 of you — who have helped this site grow to become the most read chiropractic/physiotherapy blog in Singapore.

To facilitate your reading experience, I am compiling an essential reading list. If you prefer, you can scroll down to access the blog in reverse chronological order (newest entries first).

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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 [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 19, 2020

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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 [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 18, 2020

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. [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 16, 2020

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 [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 14, 2020

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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, [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 13, 2020

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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 [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 11, 2020

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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 - [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 10, 2020

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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 [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 5, 2020

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The VUCA World: Is uncertainty the new norm?

We are half way through the circuit breaker period in Singapore. As lockdown measures start to relax throughout the world, are we returning to times of certainty? What does VUCA stand for? V - volatility U - uncertainty C - complexity A - ambiguity VUCA stands for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Believe it or [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date May 4, 2020

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Make Chiropractic Essential Again | Why chiropractic is not essential

Chiropractic is considered a non-essential service for the circuit breaker period. Since the extension of the circuit breaker, the Ministry of Health has allowed allied health providers such as physiotherapists and podiatrists to start seeing patients (for a day a week). However, chiropractors are NOT considered allied health providers in Singapore. Therefore, chiropractic clinics remained […]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date April 30, 2020

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Personal Trainer and Nutritionist Shares About Her Stress Eating Experience

Caitlin's background in nutrition, personal training, and psychology puts her in a unique position to help women with emotional eating breakthrough. Doesn't matter if you are trying to lose weight or to live a healthy lifestyle. Eating well is important. In fact, nutrition services is big in Singapore. Gyms, such as Ultimate Performance, include weekly [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date April 23, 2020

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Ultimate Scoliosis Guide | Scoliosis Treatment in Singapore

Most parents freak out when they are told their child has scoliosis. This is could be because chiropractic clinics in Singapore use scare tactics to encourage parents to start their child on treatment. Before you make a comment to a chiropractic treatment package, here are the facts you need to know. What is scoliosis? As [...]

Post author By Jesse Cai
Post date April 21, 2020

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