With many people working from home as much as possible, a lot of attention is being paid to proper working posture. But have you ever considered that, on average, you spend about as long at your desk as you do in bed? Time to think about your sleeping posture. Because a good...
Because we look at our phones or sit at the computer every day, we constantly sit with our necks bent. This goes well for a long time, but at some point, your neck gets sore. You may feel a radiating pain in the arm, shoulders and even in the hand. The arm may be numb...
When you have a (sports) injury, you are often balking and want to know where it went wrong and what you can do about it to prevent it in the future. Many cases involve the strain on the body. So you are asking more of your body that what it can handle (capacity). Endurance vs load...
Research by Jonothan Tsehaie, affiliated with the Xpert Clinic and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, shows that treating patients with osteoarthritis of the thumb using hand therapy and splints results in less pain and improved hand function. Nowadays, (too) many different treatment techniques are used for osteoarthritis of the thumb....
The sun is already showing itself regularly, the terraces are filling up nicely, the bikes are being taken out of the shed and the days are getting longer, which can only mean one thing; spring has started! Summer time will also start on the last Sunday of this month, making the days seem even longer! To celebrate the...
Exercise is healthy we all know, but how much exercise do you really need? RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) sets exercise guidelines and then measures how many Dutch people comply with these exercise guidelines. The most recent data on exercise and sitting can be found at www.volksgezondheidenzorg.info The exercise guidelines are about the amount of physical activity needed....
This is mainly due to lifestyle awareness and an increase in chronic conditions! Good news for us physiotherapists, because for more and more conditions, the added value of physiotherapy is scientifically demonstrated. This is partly because more and more people have chronic conditions and partly because the majority of the population is working on a healthy lifestyle....
Research shows that at least two million people in the Netherlands suffer from back or neck pain. Last year, over 1.1 million women and 858,600 men were known to the GP with back or neck pain, recent figures from the RIVM show. Never before has the two-million mark been broken. Last year, ...