Owner of Merrill Performance, LLC. Manual Physical Therapist. Advanced Trigger Point Dry Needling Specialist. The future of Physical Health and Performance.
Boulder, CO
Joined August 2009
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Charlie Merrill retweeted
Seeing chronic back pain as due to the mind or brain can help heal it.
Check out our paper published today in JAMA Network Open, using natural language methods to study patients' **pain attributions**
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Excellent article by @ToddHargrove sharing evidence further normalizing clinical findings many of us were taught were pathological. The paradigm shift continues!
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We have no evidence that specific exercise works better than general/preferred exercise for health, prevention, and well-being. Best practice is to choose movement that’s enjoyable, novel and fosters growth, fun and playful, and that you’ll find look forward to doing regularly.
After a lifetime of building a life around highly specific exercise for a living as a pro athlete, I find myself six years past retirement trying for the hundredth time to motivate myself to move regularly for basic things like not dying prematurely and guys why is that hard?
Charlie Merrill retweeted
Do people with #PFP have different biomechanics during walking & running compared to pain-free people? Do altered biomechanics cause #PFP? Check out our new systematic review in @SportsMedicineJ!
Our results might surprise you. A summary follows 🧵1/10
Charlie Merrill retweeted
Chronic pain isn’t a subject we’ve covered in depth on this podcast before, so I’m very pleased I have the chance to bring this important conversation to you. I hope you enjoy it.
You can listen via the link below or wherever you enjoy your podcasts.
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Charlie Merrill retweeted
Manual Therapy Effect in Placebo-Controlled Trials: A
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Charlie Merrill retweeted
Amen. I love watching the variety of different running styles, especially at the end of hard races. Makes you appreciate all the ways humans can run fast.
In case you wondered whether emotions drive physical pain…@torwager’s important work continues at Dartmouth after the important 2021 CU chronic low back pain study.
Professor Tor Wager’s (@torwager) lab studies how brain networks are connected with pain and emotion. bit.ly/3KvcHyx
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Charlie Merrill retweeted
Whats the relationship between 'good' posture and back pain? We discuss the evidence here......
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Charlie Merrill retweeted
"Youth sports in the U.S.: driven by egos and money.
Youth sports in Norway: driven by fun."
A wonderful article on our misguided approach to youth sports.
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Charlie Merrill retweeted
Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation
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New research suggests that movement and creativity are linked, but it's not the movement per se that helps us to think more flexibly. Instead, it's the freedom to make self-determined movements that is responsible for it. neurosciencenews.com/creativ…
Go Beyond Pain Education! - mailchi.mp/mperformance/beyo… Beyond Pain Education! - [Campaign URL] Announcing the 4th cohort of Beyond Pain Education starting Friday January 7th, 2022! Join us and improve the live's of your clients as well as your career trajectory as a clinician.
Hot off the presses. With this landmark study, @YoniAshar and his team are changing the way we conceptualization and treat #lowbackpain. Amazing work!
So so happy to share results from the Boulder back pain study, just published in @JAMAPsych. The bottom line: psychological treatment can eliminate or nearly eliminate pain for a substantial portion of people with primary chronic back pain. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… 1/n
Just posted a photo @ Online instagram.com/p/CUYFtcnlvkt/…
Charlie Merrill retweeted
Join me and @charliemerrill for the Solo show on Fireside as we discuss Pain, Movement, and Man School today at 12pm PDT.
You can request access to Fireside in the meantime. f.chat/Jbip