Matt Sheldon

Your knee’s been sore for months. Every squat, every set of leg extensions, every flight of stairs sets it off. But the quad and hamstring strength you need to actually get better keeps slipping, because you can’t load the joint hard enough to build it. That’s the trap with knee arthritis, patellofemoral pain, and tendinopathy […]

Someone hands you a date. Two weeks, back to play. No testing, no re-check, just a number on a calendar. That’s a guess dressed up as clearance. The myth: symptom-free means ready The usual logic goes like this: once you feel normal at home, at work, at school, you’re cleared. No headaches, no fog, back

Six weeks into your shoulder exercises and nothing’s really changed. So you quit, or you go back to your doctor asking about a scan, a needle, maybe surgery. Here’s the number nobody gave you at the start: gold-standard rotator cuff rehab takes 14 to 16 weeks, 3 to 4 months, before you see significant change.

Your heel hurts first thing in the morning, or after a run, or from standing around at work all day. So you stop running, stop walking the dog as far, maybe cut activity out entirely and hope it settles. Plantar heel pain, plantar fasciitis being the most common version, is one of the most common

You rolled it, iced it, limped around for a week or two, and moved on. That’s how most ankle sprains get treated. Then, 2 years later, it still gives out on an uneven trail, still feels loose going downhill, still tweaks doing something you used to do without thinking about it. That’s an old sprain

Short answer: yes. Scope, knee replacement, ACL reconstruction, fracture repair, a bursa flush-out, all of it. Doesn’t matter what the surgeon called it. If someone cut into your knee, you need rehab afterward. The myth: rest and walking will sort it out The instructions are usually the same. Take it easy, keep the leg moving,

You’re doing your exercises. Your knee, your shoulder, your back, whatever it is – it aches a little. Is that fine? Or are you making it worse? Most people never get a straight answer. So they either push through everything, or stop the second anything feels off. Both are guesses. The myth: “if it hurts,

You’ve been going for weeks. Doing the exercises, more or less. Showing up. And the results aren’t matching the effort. Before deciding physio just doesn’t work for you, it’s worth checking whether one of these 4 things is happening. We see all 4 constantly, and each one is fixable. Mistake 1: treating physio as something

You’ve had a concussion. Maybe a fall, a hit at hockey, a car accident. You went to the ER, got checked for anything serious, and got sent home with a page of instructions: rest, follow up with your doctor, take it easy, maybe something for the headaches. That’s often where the guidance stops. It shouldn’t.

You’re home from surgery. Walker in the hallway, ice pack in the freezer, and a sheet of exercises from the hospital that doesn’t say much about the bigger picture. What does doing this right actually look like over the next month and a half? What everyone gets told Bend the knee as much and as