Writing from the three physios at Recharge. Practical, opinionated, no fluff. If something here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.
Adherence to home exercise programs sits between 30% and 50%. Every physio knows it. We keep handing out the sheets anyway. Here's the honest reason, and what we do instead.
What we actually do when someone walks in with breathlessness, fatigue, brain fog that won't shift. The screening matters more than the exercises.
Every September we patch up the same people. Here's what they all did wrong, and the four rules that would have saved them an ACC claim.
"Impingement" is a label, not a diagnosis. Most of the time it's one of four specific patterns underneath, and the treatment is different for each.
The nervous system runs in two gears. If you're stuck in the first one, no amount of dry needling is going to help. Here's how it actually works.