Michael O'Neill Soft Tissue Therapy

28/07/2025

The aim is always to work together to help put you in charge of your recovery.

24/07/2025

GONE
5pm tonight just became available Thursday 24th.
Booking link in the comments.

21/07/2025

Appointments still available for the week.

Wednesday 23rd 3.30pm
Friday 25th 10.30am

17/07/2025

Aging isn’t a thief.
It doesn’t take your strength, balance, or mobility.
It waits for you to give them up.
That’s the real danger: handing over what time hasn’t claimed.
Every skipped workout, every excuse to stay still, every “I’m too old for this”—they add up.

But so do the walks, the lifts, the stretches, the choices to move anyway.

You don’t have to accept decline as inevitable.
You just have to stop giving it permission.

27/06/2025

NEW POST, about unrealistic expectations of menopause hormone therapy, and much more realistic expectations of exercise. 4-min read.

"Menopause and Pain, Hormones and Exercise: A Beginning"
https://www.painscience.com/blog/menopause-and-pain-hormones-and-exercise--a-beginning.html

TL;DR: Menopause care needs less hormone hype and more deadlifts.

A little more context:

Dr. Louise Tulloh in an editorial about menopause for a new exercise-focused issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine:

“Despite a renaissance in menopause awareness, the over-medicalisation of women’s midlife health threatens to eclipse foundational interventions like physical activity.”

And, she warns, women are trapped between the devil of over-medicalization and the deep blue sea of misinformation spewing from “influencers” online.

What does this mean for women with chronic pain?

It means …they should probably lift more weights. 🙂

Now go read the whole thing:
https://www.painscience.com/blog/menopause-and-pain-hormones-and-exercise--a-beginning.html

ABOUT THE PHOTO

The photo is of friend-of-the-salamander Elaine Robertson, in her garage gym in Beith, Scotland, where she’s been lifting for about a decade. Her husband runs a strength and fitness coaching business, Strength For Health, and he got her into the sport after she finally overcame the objections many women have, like the “wildly-overstated risk of becoming bulky.”

But now she can “blithely carry fully-laden suitcases up flights of stairs” and, much more importantly, “lift my 82 year-old, frail, osteoporotic mum after a fall from which she was unable to get up. A key driver for my strength training is avoiding following her into frailty.”

~ Paul Ingraham, PainScience.com publisher

26/06/2025

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06/06/2025

I spent the morning studying all things brains and movement, so that I can continue developing as a therapist and this also helps me understand my own difficulties as a fellow human.

05/06/2025

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Most people think arthritis means less movementBut the truth? The right movement is one of the most powerful tools to feel better ✅You truly cannot afford to...

30/05/2025

28/05/2025

The greatest threat to your joints isn’t movement—it’s stillness.

The greatest threat to your joints isn’t movement—it’s stillness.

Cartilage needs load. Muscles need tension. Bones need impact.

I’ve seen what happens when people stop.
Pain increases. Confidence fades. Recovery becomes harder. Your world becomes smaller.

Motion isn’t just medicine—it’s prevention.
Start with 10 minutes. Make it a habit.
Your future self is waiting. Let’s move like it matters. Because it does.