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04/11/2026

A little more about what we actually worked on with my client! 🧠

Medulla (part of your brainstem):This area helps regulate things you don’t consciously think about, like breathing, heart rate and digestion. It’s also heavily involved in your parasympathetic nervous system, which helps your body shift towards more of that more chill, rest and digest state.

Vestibular system (your balance system): This system tells your brain where your head is in space and plays a HUGE role in balance, posture and muscle control.

Your vestibular system also communicates with parts of your brainstem involved in regulating your autonomic nervous system!

So we used a couple of very simple drills based on the deficits we found, with the goal of giving his nervous system some useful input and encouraging a more relaxed state.

And the changes we saw immediately afterwards were pretty bloody cool! 🤓

Now the bigger challenge is making those improvements stick, which means addressing his sleep, stress, nutrition and recovery as well.

Pain is complex and often involves a few different pieces of the puzzle. From my experience, for improvements to actually properly stick, you have to dig deeper and figure out what those pieces are. 🧩

01/11/2026

How can you not love applied neuro? 🧠

Today my left shoulder felt a bit how ya going during pressing. Not much power and way more unstable than usual.

Because I know my left eye has some convergence deficits, I pulled out my handy neuro tool (my thumb 😁) and did some single eye triangle tracking, which is usually a high payoff input for me.

Here’s what I was targeting...

👁️ Cranial nerve III (oculomotor nerve)
This nerve originates from nuclei in your midbrain and controls several muscles responsible for moving your eyes.

When I move my eye inward towards my nose, I’m using my medial re**us muscle, which is controlled by CN III and this also activates pathways in the midbrain.

🧠 The midbrain isn’t just involved in eye movements. It also contains motor pathways associated with posture, muscle tone and facilitating flexor movements.

Shoulder flexion, adduction and internal rotation all play roles in pressing, so I was particularly interested in improving stability and control on the way UP.

My thinking was that challenging these eye movement pathways might provide a useful input to the nervous system and influence how my shoulder was organising the movement.

As always, no guessing. ASSESS → DRILL that makes sense → RETEST.

Let your body’s response guide what you do next! 🤓

29/10/2026

❗️Keep everything gentle, no more than a 3/10 stretch!!

Whenever my hip starts feeling a bit funny, I do one set of this at the gym and it works like a charm every time!

Before you continue stretching the living s**t out of your hip flexors, here is some food for thought…

Your femoral nerve originates from your lower back (L2–L4), travels through your pelvis and into the front of your thigh.

It supplies several important muscles, including:

Iliacus – helps flex your hip.
Re**us femoris and the other quadriceps muscles – help extend your knee, with re**us femoris also assisting hip flexion.
Sartorius and pectineus – contribute to hip movement and control.

It also carries sensory information from parts of your thigh, knee and inner lower leg.

Why the heck this could be helpful? 🤔

Sometimes a nerve can become irritated or compressed, or lose some of its ability to move comfortably relative to surrounding tissues.

Other times, your nervous system may become more sensitive to certain positions and movements, even without a nerve being physically trapped.

And because nerves are responsible for communication between your brain and muscles, irritation or dysfunction can influence strength, sensation and movement.

Gentle targeted nerve glides can help a lot.

As always, the process remains the same.

You have a problem. We try something that makes sense. Then RETEST the movement that was giving you trouble straight away.
If it feels better, that’s a good sign and you can explore incorporating the drill into your training.

If nothing changes or it feels worse, leave it alone for now. This drill is likely not what your body needs atm.

SAVE this for later and let me know how you go!

17/10/2026

The ground underneath us doesn’t usually move, so why are we only prioritising balance training on unstable surfaces? 🤔

Don’t get me wrong, unstable surfaces have their place, but there are so many other ways to train your balance that are more relevant to life!

Your brain relies on 3 main systems to keep you balanced:

👀 Visual system - helps you understand where you are in relation to your surroundings.

👂 Vestibular system - your inner ear acts like a built in compass, detecting head movement and gravity, helping your brain keep you upright and maintain posture.

🦶 Proprioceptive system - information coming from your muscles, joints and skin telling your brain where different parts of your body are in space.

Your brain constantly takes all this information, puts it together and makes adjustments to keep you upright move you through space.

My client couldn’t maintain tandem stance for more than a few seconds.

Based on her other assessments, I decided to try a few reps of VOR-C (vestibulo-ocular reflex cancellation) in specific directions.

We challenged coordination between the eyes, head and vestibular system.

Just a couple of reps and her balance improved massively! Giving her brain useful information to better understand where her body is in space.

Does this mean we magically fixed her balance system? Not necessarily.

But we now have a window of opportunity to train with challenging movements and have utilise this boost in coordination, strength and efficiency of movement to lock in the gains!

DM or link in my bio for coaching! 🤝

09/10/2026

Save this or send it to someone whose neck is having a bad day 👀

The Accessory nerve (CN XI) supplies your traps and SCM - two muscles that can get very involved when your neck is feeling protective and tight

This position gives that nerve a bit more slack (taking tension off)

Hold for 3 relaxed nasal breaths, keep everything gentle, then…

RETEST YOUR NECK

If it feels better, great 🤝
If nothing changes, move on. Not every input works for everyone

If it causes dizziness, tingling, sharp pain or makes things feel worse, stop

04/10/2026

How good is life 💙

22/06/2026

Andre had ongoing hip pain for 5 years.

His body wasn’t broken.

It was just looking for the right input. 🤓

When I assessed Andre, there were signs that his cerebellum / PMRF system wasn’t doing its job as well as I wanted.

That matters because these systems can have a big impact on pain modulation, posture, reflexive stability, movement coordination and how safe the body feels when moving.

The funny part?

His pain was showing up in his right hip…

But we worked on the left side. 🤯

This is something I use quite a bit called the opposing joint approach.

Simple way to think about it:

Your body is not separate pieces.

Your left side and right side are constantly talking to each other through your nervous system.

So sometimes, when one area is painful or unstable, working directly on that area is not always the best first move.

In Andre’s case, his pain was showing up in the right hip…

But his body responded better when we gave input through the left side.

That input helped his nervous system feel safer, improve coordination and reduce the need to protect the painful area.

This is why pain can change so quickly.

Not because we “fixed” the hip in 30 seconds.

But because we gave the brain better information to work with.

And this is the important part.

That quick change gives us a window.

Then the next job is to use strength training with good ex*****on to show the brain:
“Hey, this movement is actually safe now.”

That’s where we can start reducing pain, rebuilding strength and improving coordination around the problem area.

If you have been stuck in chronic pain for years and nothing has worked or lasted, this is your sign to try something different.

Send me a DM and I’ll send you details about working with me. 🤝

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