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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 63 min read
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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 41 min read
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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 24 min read
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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 222 min read
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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 132 min read
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🧠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 133 min read
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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 112 min read
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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 71 min read
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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 71 min read
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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 71 min read
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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 63 min read
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🔬✨ 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 11 min read
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#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 243 min read
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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 141 min read
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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 112 min read
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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 101 min read
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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 84 min read
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All New! FMS Academy
39 courses, *80 hours, 6 certifications *CEU credits available for most courses. THE FMS ACADEMY PRICING Save money by accessing FMS's...

Greg Dea
Dec 16, 20241 min read
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Using the SFMA in time-constrained settings
When your clinic time is time-poor, but you've learned the SFMA (Selective Functional Movement Assessment), and you understand it and...

Greg Dea
Dec 12, 20241 min read
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Calf exercise - regressions, lateralisations & progressions
You've got to rehab someone to be more capacious than what they're likely to encounter. This provides a buffer. For example. An older...

Greg Dea
Nov 21, 20241 min read
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