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Energy Healing - Part 3: Fascia’s Hidden Electricity - How Piezoelectricity Drives Healing in the Body
When we touch the body, we’re not just moving tissue—we’re activating a hidden electrical system embedded in the fascia. That’s because...

Greg Dea
May 9, 20252 min read


The 3 Cs for Winning in Sports Career Development: Competency, Communication & Connections
Skip straight to the online webinar now! If you’ve ever wondered how to get ahead in the competitive world of sports physiotherapy,...

Greg Dea
May 8, 20253 min read


Energy Healing - Part 2: Mechanotransduction Manual Therapy - How Touch Influences Cellular Healing
Continuing from part 1 and the introduction post . When we think of healing touch, we often imagine mechanical effects—stretching...

Greg Dea
May 8, 20252 min read


Energy Healing - Part 1: How Far Infrared Radiation Enhances Healing Touch - The Science Behind Therapeutic Warmth
Part 1 of this series Introduction Have you ever felt a gentle warmth radiating from a practitioner’s hands during treatment? Or noticed...

Greg Dea
May 6, 20253 min read


Energy healing - is it a thing and can science explain it?
There are at least 5 processes occurring when a hand touches another body with the attention and intention to influence. Five. That I've...

Greg Dea
May 4, 20251 min read


Hamstring Injury Risk Factors: How Asymmetry and Ankle Mobility Play a Role
Hamstring injuries are among the most common—and commonly misunderstood—sports injuries. But did you know that athletes with multiple movement deficits are 17 times more likely to suffer time-loss injuries? (Lehr, ME, 2013). In this post, we explore the top hamstring injury risk factors—including one you might be overlooking: the opposite side of the body.

Greg Dea
May 2, 20254 min read


AFL hamstring injury rehab: A framework for returning-to-play an AFL footballer from a grade 1 hamstring strain (extended version)
Explore a structured, evidence-based approach to returning AFL footballers from hamstring injuries. This framework emphasizes protecting...

Greg Dea
May 2, 202522 min read


Inflammation After Endurance Rides: Why It Happens Without Eccentric Exercise
Think inflammation only comes from strength training? Learn why long endurance rides cause systemic inflammation — even without eccentric muscle damage — and how to support cycling recovery through practical strategies

Greg Dea
Apr 13, 20252 min read


🧠 When the Brain Can’t Clean Itself: How Glymphatic System Dysfunction Affects Pain, Fog, and Recovery
A Physiotherapist’s Perspective on Medications, Pain, and the Glymphatic System By Greg Dea | Clinical Sports Physiotherapist | Educator...

Greg Dea
Apr 13, 20253 min read


Common MSK Findings Related to Lymphatic and Visceral Dysfunction
Vertebral Rotation as Revealed by Static Palpation In manual therapy and osteopathic assessment, subtle segmental rotations are often...

Greg Dea
Apr 11, 20252 min read


Coherence in Therapeutic Practice: What It Is and Why It Matters
In manual and somatic therapies, it’s not just what we do—it’s the state we’re in when we do it. That’s the power of coherence ....

Greg Dea
Apr 7, 20251 min read


Jump Higher, Train Smarter: What 4 Athletes Taught Us About Limiting Factors
In the realm of athletic performance, a one-size-fits-all approach often falls short. My recent four-part series, "Regional...

Greg Dea
Apr 7, 20251 min read


Cultivating Tactile Awareness: The Cranial Pulse Practice
Refining palpatory awareness begins with deep listening—through your hands. The Cranial Pulse Awareness Exercise is a foundational...

Greg Dea
Apr 7, 20251 min read


Flow Changes Function: A New Lens on Manual Therapy
Introduction In manual therapy, some of the most profound shifts happen not with force, but with flow. Subtle cues—an involuntary sigh, a...

Greg Dea
Apr 6, 20253 min read
🔬✨ Ever felt something shift under your hands—but couldn’t explain it?
This few-pager breaks down how touch changes function by influencing fluid flow, fascia, and nervous system state . Backed by research....

Greg Dea
Apr 1, 20251 min read


#HealingHands
The Influence of Far-Infrared Radiation from the Human Hand on Fluid Flow I'm going to show you a video that looks like I'm not doing...

Greg Dea
Mar 24, 20253 min read


Manual therapy at the ankle - prequel
The subtalar joint mobilisation, plus talonavicular joint mobilisation, plus navicula-cuneiform joint mobilisation. In the previous post...

Greg Dea
Jan 14, 20251 min read


Manual therapy at the ankle
Ankle dorsiflexion normative range of motion in an adult is tough to give a value because of the variations in testing method but we do...

Greg Dea
Jan 11, 20252 min read


Performance is a behaviour that can change quickly.
When someone is excellent at performance, but lands like this? Does it matter? I know our minds will begin racing about why this...

Greg Dea
Jan 10, 20251 min read


Unwinding the pattern of patterns
Let me put it to you of some recent (5-year) findings. Ninety plus percent of my clients have an abdominal visceral contributor to their...

Greg Dea
Jan 8, 20254 min read
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