Dear reader, Two days ago a female client in her early thirties came to see me at JANMI after one of those moments that modern people never expect to become a full body crisis. She bent down to pick something up from the floor. That was all. No car crash. No deadlift competition. No wild sporting accident in the Alps. Just one ordinary bend in the middle of an ordinary London life. And yet from that moment the whole lumbo pelvic area seized up. She could hardly move the trunk in any direction...

Dear reader, A few days ago I saw a young client in his early twenties who had started to feel pain on the lateral side of his right knee after playing tennis. At first glance, many people would look only at the knee and begin the usual local drama there. But the body is rarely so simple. The knee often suffers from a problem that was born lower down and then pushed upward through the chain. On assessment, what stood out to me was a flat overpronated foot, together with very tight hamstrings...

Dear reader, This week I saw a 56 year old female client who plays golf a few times a week and came with a very interesting pattern. One shoulder had restricted external rotation, and every time she tried to move into that direction she felt pain radiating into the anterior deltoid. On the opposite side, the gluteus medius started aching during golf. At first glance, these two complaints may look like distant cousins who do not speak to each other. But the body is rarely that random. In my...