Charlie Merrill

Owner of Merrill Performance, LLC. Manual Physical Therapist. Advanced Trigger Point Dry Needling Specialist. The future of Physical Health and Performance.

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

@YoniAshar Thanks for sharing and for your important work @YoniAshar and colleagues!

[Yoni Ashar @YoniAshar]

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**

https://t.co/v4519JHXKb

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[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

Excellent article by @ToddHargrove sharing evidence further normalizing clinical findings many of us were taught were pathological. The paradigm shift continues!

[Todd Hargrove @ToddHargrove]

https://t.co/3on21VNIGG

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

https://t.co/ue6SwMi15h

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

@YoniAshar Wow congratulations to you, @torwager and the rest of your team! This study has created a ton of momentum in an extremely important direction.

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

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.

[Lauren Fleshman @laurenfleshman]

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?

[David Bazett-Jones @DrBazettJones]

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

[Dr Rangan Chatterjee @drchatterjeeuk]

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.

https://t.co/BxSi1Z1AIN

[Physio Meets Science @PhysioMeScience]

Manual Therapy Effect in Placebo-Controlled Trials: A
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

👀👀👇👇

https://t.co/wFTXK4Eiqt

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

@CorKinetic Doesn’t it sometimes feel like people still want to believe that the earth is flat?

[Derek Griffin @DerekGriffin86]

Variation is normal.
https://t.co/kNLhpoRSGP

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

@DerekGriffin86 @GregLehman 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.

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

@DerekGriffin86 @GregLehman 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.

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

@GregLehman Amen.

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

@GregLehman I miss the 80s too.

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

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.

[Dartmouth 🌲 @dartmouth]

Professor Tor Wager’s (@torwager) lab studies how brain networks are connected with pain and emotion. https://t.co/eVE1bE6pDT

[Peter O'Sullivan @PeteOSullivanPT]

Whats the relationship between 'good' posture and back pain? We discuss the evidence here......
https://t.co/ft6op6fia3

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

"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.

https://t.co/BbWMHaZPes

[Yoni Ashar @YoniAshar]

Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation

https://t.co/ulUIWVGUVs

[Charlie Merrill @charliemerrill]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/aaOYv9OIEG