Section

Sport & Movement

Running loads, shin splints, IT band pain and desk days, with assessment and a sensible return to activity.

Trail runner on a gravel path through heathland in flat evening light, mid-stride, one hand briefly touching the outside of the sore knee, compression sleeve visible on the lower leg, heather and pine trees behind

IT band pain and shin splints: the two classic running complaints

Both are load stories, not flaw stories. What the IT band and the shin bone's outer sleeve actually do, why they complain, and how to return to running.

21/09/2026

Home studio in the afternoon, a man working cross-legged on a floor cushion with a laptop on a low table beside a proper desk chair left empty, books stacked, tape measure and notebook forgotten beside him, warm slanted light

Sport & Movement SM-001

Does sitting posture cause back pain? The trial the desk lost

Sit up straight has been tested, and the conviction did not survive. What predicts desk-day pain instead, and what to actually change about how you sit.

21/09/2026

The reading room

Pages kept by other editors, each read before it earned a place here.

Complementary care deserves the same scrutiny as any prescription, and an evidence ledger on acupuncture asks the plain question, condition by condition, before a single needle is booked.
Half of our patients blame a dog that pulls on the leash, so we return the favour: a desk on canine joint health keeps the other end of the lead moving well too.
Spines do not retire, and a French guide to ageing well maps the honest question for Luxembourg readers: what actually keeps a body mobile past sixty.
Expectant parents ask us first about pregnancy back pain, then about everything else that arrives with the baby, and French wording for a birth notice is the next question our French-speaking patients bring.