Inner Harbour Massage Therapy

Inner Harbour Massage Therapy is moving to a new location in September!

After 15 years I will be leaving James st and starting a new chapter in a new neighbourhood of Kingston.

Text me for more information or to book your next appointment 💜

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Struggle to support yourself with a side plank on the floor? Your stairs are your best friend! By changing the angle of your body your legs will have to take less weight so you can get the reps in! Then as you feel it get easier, you can work your way down the steps until you’re at floor level again and you’ll be able to rep out the full version no problem! Good one to practice daily until you get it 💪 #dailyhabits #corestrength #sideplankregression #backpain

A Diagnostic Scoring System for Sacroiliac Joint (SIJ) Pain Originating from the Posterior Ligament 💡

👉 According to the a brand-new german study summarizing the recommendations from a new clinical guideline published by the German Spine Society, there is conflicting evidence as to whether the combination of multiple clinical provocation tests (≥3 tests) can predict outcome of intra-articular SI joint injection. (Quality of evidence: very low). (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21925682241230922)

🤷One - among other -reasons for this low diagnostic accuracy might be the non-consideration of pain arising from the ligamentous apparatus surrounding the SI joint (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19101212/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18259783/)

👉 In 2016, Kurosawa and colleagues developed a diagnostic scoring system to differentiate sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain originating from the posterior ligament (criteria: Pain improved by 70% after a periarticular SIJ injection. Other types of injections were not effective) from lumbar disorders (lumbar disc herniation and lumbar spinal canal stenosis, criteria: only surgical cases, physical and MRI findings; significant improvement 3 months after surgery). (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28204687/)

The biggest differentiators between lumbar spine disorders and SIJ pain originating from the posterior ligament were six items as follows:
1️⃣ the posterior superior iliac spine (PSIS) area indicated using the one-finger test,
2️⃣ groin pain,
3️⃣ pain while sitting on a chair with-out back rest,
4️⃣ SIJ positive shear test,
5️⃣ PSIS tenderness, and
6️⃣ sacrotuberous ligament (STL) tenderness (s. figure).

👉These six items are used as the SIJ scoring system. The sum of the risk scores for each patient ranged from 0 to 9. It has a sensitivity of 90.3% and specificity of 86.4% for a positivity cutoff point of 4 or higher.

⭕ But CAVE: Additional studies are needed to determine if this scoring system can distinguish SIJ related pain from non-specific lower back and buttocks pain and from systemic pain syndrome, such as fibromyalgia.

📸 Illustration: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-33-6204-8_6

10 Reasons Why You Should Lift Weights - Tom Morrison Even if weights seem scary to you, I encourage you to give it a go, and here's why

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