Daniel Baines

16/03/2022

Have you experienced neck pain that movement and manual therapy has not been able to get to the bottom of?

It might be worth taking a look at your eyes👀

Your eyes are like the feet that your body hangs from. In order for your eyes to stay level and focused everything else must react to compensate.

All you have to do to see how important they can be in neck pain is to place your hands in the muscles at the back of your skull and look left and right and you will feel these tiny neck/skull muscles contract.

If you are finding that instructions seem to be getting smaller and the ingredients on the back of packets aren’t printed as clearly any more😉…might be worth looking into 🤓

25/02/2022

Looking at your back anatomy and how to create some space in that L5S1 area.

This is a little ‘movement aspirin’ if this joint needs some love 😊

24/02/2022

Yesterday session working with scoliosis

Can you change scoliosis?… It depends :-)

How do you know if you can change it?… Begin work and see what unravels!

What’s the most up-to-date resource concerning scoliosis?… The body in front of you.

In this case we had to work on the cranium and jaw before exploring gentle movements.

Three sessions in and things are changing.
My guess is there is a bit of structural change and a bit of functional adaption as well. Either way we are finding new space to move around in 😊

21/02/2022

Shoulder pain session today
- treated cranial impact injury✔️
- treated appendix scar ✔️
- treated rib fracture✔️
…now time to MOVE 😊

19/02/2022

Metatarsalgia (…AKA pain under your toe)

Is it a foot issue or is it a whole body issue?

In this case the pain was definitely under the second toe but a historical tail bone fall and a knee injury meant that the big toe never had a chance of touching the floor and that second toe was picking up all the slack. No amount of foot articulation was going to help 😊

25/10/2021

24/12/2020

02/12/2020

As lock down 2 is coming to an end I have had a chance to write a little more. This blog post begins to unwrap the topic of functional health and how what is going on inside can manifest on the outside.

Functional medicine is not about your symptoms. Symptoms are merely clues that are whispering to us (sometimes very loudly) saying listen.

13/07/2020

A fun flow from this mornings PT session with Daniel.
We were looking at hip and spine mobility within the context of a basic press up. Have a play 😊

09/07/2020

In the final part of the big toe love series we are going to couple movement all the way from the toe to the hip. All you need are 2 sticks and a big toe. Go slow and compare left to right and see how it feels👍

07/07/2020

How to start mobilising the big toe using isometrics and 3D motion.

06/07/2020

When is a foot problem not a foot problem?
While mobility and foot strength can undoubtedly cause issues as we move up the chain, it works in the other direction too.
Yes the foot is the foundation that sets the rest of the body up with every step, however notice what happens in this little movement experience if you widen your diagnostic net to take in the rest of your body 😊

05/07/2020

Such a tiny joint but so super important. Excuse the camio at the start 🤣

25/04/2020

25/04/2020

25/04/2020

Hip flexor time!

Here’s the set up:

1 prop your back foot up on a chair or even against the wall and place a cushion under your knee.
2 place your front foot flat on the floor and stack your pelvis, rib cage and skull on top of each other.
3 hold onto something to support you with both hands. 2 chairs work well or even 2 brooms on end.
4 brace through your core and arms and allow your pelvis and upper body to travel forwards as a unit, in order to build the stretch
5 making sure you do not lean back with your spine or shift your pelvis lift your lead knee as high as you can off the floor.
6 keeping your knee as high as possible straighten your knee in front to full extension.
7 if your knee drops a bit (it probably will😉) lift it higher as you flex your knee back to 90 degrees
8 slowly lower back to the floor
9 reset and repeat
10 enjoy!😜

24/04/2020

This is a fun and deceptively tough self articulation for your hip joint.

Here are a few key points to get the most out of it:

1 Get a nice straight line from head to knee, then brace your core to lock pelvis and ribs as if they have set in concrete.

2 Flex top knee towards chest from your hip only (no flexing at the spine!)

3 Hold that flexion and abduct leg out to side keeping shin parallel with the floor

4 keep that knee where it is as you lift your heel up higher - this creates internal rotation at your hip

5 Keep that internal rotation and reach thigh behind you into extension

6 Keeping that heel higher and resisting any slumping on that bottom leg drop the back knee down behind your calf (this will give you internal rotation, extension and adduction in that top hip)

The return journey:

7 Bring back shin parallel with the floor again and reach the heel back to extend the hip even more

8 Pull your knee up towards your arm pit as you rotate your heel down to the floor (external rotation)

9) Close your hip slowly back towards the floor like closing a gate.

10) Cry a bit and repeat😢

19/04/2020

How moving your mind around an idea can create very real physical changes.