Dr Sarah L

I have a PhD from Imperial College London, a mad dog & a somewhat sinister cat! I'm in a long term relationship with pain and use a wheelchair on L plates!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That towel move is a real physical therapy technique called a self SNAG, and the speed of the relief tells you something most people never learn about their own neck. Muscle tissue takes weeks of loading to actually lengthen. So when stiffness vanishes in a few seconds, the muscle was never what changed.

What changed is the signal your brain was sending to it.

The small facet joints stacked down the back of your neck sit at roughly a 45 degree angle. When one of them gets irritated or stops gliding smoothly, your brain protects it by clamping down the surrounding muscles. That clamp is the stiffness you feel. The tissue underneath is usually fine, it's just being held under orders.

The towel edge hooks under one vertebra. When you pull forward and up along that 45 degree joint plane while turning your head, you glide the joint through the exact motion it was refusing, with support the whole way. Your brain gets live evidence the movement is safe and drops the clamp. Physical therapists do the same glide with their thumbs and call it a SNAG, short for sustained natural apophyseal glide. Brian Mulligan, the New Zealand physio who developed the method in the 1980s, designed the towel version specifically so patients could run it on themselves at home.

Which is why years of stretching can lose to thirty seconds with a towel. A stretch tries to overpower the brain's grip. A glide convinces it to let go.

[The Strictly Spoiler @davejthorp]

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[Cat Man @CatMaaannn]

جسدك سوف يرحل ، لكن انسانيتك سوف تسطر عنك اجمل القصص

شكرا لكل انسان 💜

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

Please stop sending your children to the bathroom alone!!
#kidnappers
#humantraffickers
#payattention

[TheHunter🪝 @thehuntersssss]

Nobody told the horse this wasn’t its foal.

[Isabella @Isabella02ko]

Imagine a dog being smarter than its owner What do you think would happen

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A snake catcher in India calmly handles two massive cobras with his bare hands and a stick

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

watching a scared street animal slowly start trusting a kind human is one of the sweetest things ever that little moment when they realize “maybe this person won’t hurt me”

[Sakalar İskitler(Gizlenen Eski Anadolu Halkı) @Saka_larr]

Şaman kadın farklıdır.

[Lizbeth Quiñonez @LQuino47372]

El instinto no entiende de miedos: la mirada desesperada por proteger a su cría refleja la fuerza más pura de la naturaleza.

[Matheorems @matheorems]

All six trigonometric functions appear as distinct line-segment lengths on a single unit circle.

[Craft Gallery @5min__crafts]

Save this before you need it! 🪢

[Nick Wellings @Nick_Wellings]

I hadn't seen this angle before. It really shows how fast the planes were going.

[Petrichor (雨后馨香） @Jam79922967]

逼真，能吓出心脏病来。

[Chioma ❁ @bzingers]

This is the craziest compilation video of dogs understanding everything their owners say 🫪🤣🤣

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

子ども��頃にこの折り方知ってたらヒーローになれた...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A wonderful tribute to the victims of 9/11 by Sky Element Drones, 2,977 Lights over New York Harbor. One light for every life lost.

[Free @IRON_H_E_A_R_T]

Art work 🤔💯