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Kinex Therapy : Total Body Integration, Busselton, Perth, Busselton (2026)

27/05/2026

TEACH YOURSELF TO GET BETTER

Vertigo, Balance & Confidence

While I was recently in Sydney, this conversation came up constantly.

At the airport.
On the plane.
Walking through crowds.
Even chatting casually with travellers.

“I feel wobbly.”
“I don’t trust stairs anymore.”
“My neck feels stiff.”
“My jaw locks.”
“My eyes feel strange.”
“I get ringing in my ears.”
“I feel off balance for no reason.”

And honestly… so many people are quietly struggling with this.

What I kept thinking was this:

Most people have never been taught how to check back in with their nervous system.

We charge through life disconnected from our movement, posture, breathing, vision, and balance… until the body finally says:
“Enough.”

So I explained something simple.

You need a toolkit to switch your nervous system back on.

When you are laying down:
check your feet… knees… hips… ribs… shoulders… jaw… eyes… fingers.

Can you feel yourself properly?

Then when you sit up:
check again.

Feet to knees.
Knees to hips.
Hips to spine.
Head position.
Eye movement.
Arm and finger awareness.

Then when you stand:
don’t just rush off walking.

Pause.

Check left to right.
Front to back.
Feet to head.

Can your body feel upright and organised?

And then…

Teach yourself to walk again.

Not aggressively.
Not fearfully.
But consciously.

Feel your feet load.
Let your arms swing.
Let your eyes guide movement.
Let your ribs and diaphragm move.

Because balance is not automatic forever.

It is a skill.
A neurological conversation.
A constantly updated map between the brain and the body.

Sometimes the body is not weak.

The map is simply blurry.

And when you begin checking in again…
the nervous system often becomes calmer, steadier, and more confident.

25/05/2026

Grip is confidence
Recent clients with hand issues

The hand is extraordinary.

It can create art…
Lift weights…
Hold a child…
Throw a ball…
Play piano…
Write poetry…
Or simply reach out and comfort someone.

But sometimes the issue isn’t pain.
It isn’t arthritis.
It isn’t even weakness.

Sometimes the brain has simply stopped using part of the movement pattern properly.

I explain it like a tent.

A tent needs balanced guy ropes.
If one side becomes too tight and dominant…
another side becomes lazy, silent, disconnected.

The hand does exactly the same thing.

One group of muscles overworks.
Another stops participating.
Then the wrist stiffens.
Grip weakens.
Fingers lose coordination.
Forearms tighten.
Shoulders compensate.

But the hand is not separate from the body.

The hand belongs to the arm.
The arm belongs to the shoulder.
The shoulder belongs to the rib cage.
And the arm swing belongs to gait.

So I don’t just treat hands.

I check:
• Wrist mechanics
• Elbow rotation
• Shoulder sequencing
• Thoracic breathing
• Neck and jaw balance
• Walking patterns and arm swing

Because movement is a pattern.

And if the pattern is dysfunctional…
the body compensates everywhere.

So the goal is not simply to loosen tissue.

The goal is to:
Reactivate the missing movement.
Reconnect the pattern.
Then continuously install it into real life movement.

Sitting.
Standing.
Walking.
Swinging the arms.
Changing gears through gait.

Because the brain keeps the patterns you practise.

Movement is software.
And your body is always adapting to the movements you repeat.

25/05/2026

Passion in sport is a beautiful thing. ⚽️

I’m in Sydney visiting family down in the old Sharks rugby league shire, and my young cousin absolutely loves soccer.

Fog, rain, wind…
Didn’t matter.

Morning training.
Weekend games.
Afternoon matches.

He was there every time chasing improvement.

Watching him reminded me of something my father used to say to me constantly:

“Wasted brain if you don’t use it.”

As a kid, I thought he meant studying.
As I got older, I realised he meant something far bigger.

Learn.
Pay attention.
Develop awareness.
Use your gifts.
Challenge yourself.
Reach your potential.

So being the older cousin, I asked him:

“Would you like to be faster, stronger and have less weakness in your abilities to play the game?”

Of course he said yes.

So we got to work.

Not smashing him.
Not trying to make him sore.
Not endless punishment drills.

It’s the precision, it’s the detail of all our movements

We checked what could be better.

How his feet loaded.
How his hips transferred force.
How his breathing supported movement.
How his eyes tracked.
How his arms balanced rotation.
How his body changed gears from jogging… to sprinting… to cutting and turning.

Then we reset what wasn’t connecting well and installed better movement awareness.

And almost immediately something changed.

His confidence lifted.
His movement became smoother.
Acceleration cleaner.
Less hesitation.
Less wasted effort.

That’s the beautiful thing about the nervous system.

So often people think weakness is lack of effort.

Sometimes it’s simply lack of awareness…
A pattern not upgraded yet…
Potential waiting to be switched on.

My father’s words hit differently now.
If you can help if you can make a difference

A brain to its potential
A body to be challenged…
A talent not fully developed…

Is wasted potential.

Sport is one of the greatest teachers of that lesson.

Not because everyone becomes a professional athlete —
but because sport teaches you to keep learning who you are capable of becoming.

⚽️❤️

21/05/2026

🚫 THINK WAIT AND PLEASE LISTEN.

One of the hardest things I deal with after helping someone move better is this:

👉 They immediately think they’re fixed.

No.

You are not “fixed.”

You are BETTER.

There’s a difference.

What I’ve done is help map your nervous system toward a better movement pattern.
A more efficient strategy.
A less compensatory way of functioning.

But neurological repatterning is not a game of Lego.

🧠 I’m not snapping plastic pieces together.

This is your:
• brain
• spinal cord
• proprioception
• fascia
• joints
• breathing
• gait patterns
• autonomic nervous system

…all trying to learn a NEW organised pattern.

And learning takes repetition.

Practice installs patterns.

That’s why I say:

👉 Walk.
👉 Breathe.
👉 Move gently.
👉 Reinforce the changes.

But then some people go:

😂 “Awesome, I feel better… I’m going surfing.”
Or:
“I’m heading to the gym.”
Or:
“I’m riding horses all weekend.”

And I’m standing there thinking:

🚫 “Please don’t be silly.”

If you had just broken your leg…
you wouldn’t sprint because the cast came off.

If you had all your teeth capped…
you wouldn’t immediately chew toffee and nuts.

Yet people expect the nervous system to instantly hold a completely new movement strategy under massive load.

It doesn’t work like that.

The old pattern is still there.
The compensation is still waiting.
The survival strategy is still familiar to the brain.

What we’re trying to do is:

🧠 Install a BETTER default pattern.

And that requires:
• repetition
• awareness
• pacing
• gradual loading
• consistency

Not ego.
Not impatience.
Not “testing it out.”

Because every time you overload too early…

👉 the nervous system often snaps back to the old strategy.

Then people say:
“I was good until I did…”

Exactly.

Healing isn’t passive.
But it also isn’t reckless.

There’s a sweet spot between:
👉 doing nothing
and
👉 doing too much.

That’s where neuroplasticity thrives.

So please…

If I’ve helped you move better:
Respect the process.
Practise the process.
Install the process.

Because better patterns repeated become permanent patterns.

19/05/2026

Some People won’t Listen

I live in Australia, I had a student who simply would not listen.

Eventually I snapped and said:

👉 “Right… go to the deputy principal’s office and ask for the school gun.”

Now here’s the thing…

We’re Australian.
We essentially don’t have guns.
Only a very small percentage of the population even hold a licence.

A few minutes later the deputy principal messages me:

😂 She said to this child
You upset Mr Fitz again didn’t you?”

Apparently the kid had walked into the office completely serious asking:

👉 “Mr Fitz said I need the school gun.”

Recess that day in the staff room was chaos.
The deputy said:

“I nearly wet myself laughing.”

I even got an award that year for:
🏆 “Most outrageous request.”

But underneath the humour was a point:

🚫 STOP BEING SILLY.
STOP IGNORING THE MESSAGE.

Because this is exactly what people do with pain.

Your body says:
👉 “Something is wrong.”

And people respond with:
👉 “Can I just train through it?”

Pain is not weakness.
Pain is a statement.

It’s your nervous system saying:
⚠️ “This pattern is not working.”

Yet people override it.

They push harder.
Train harder.
Ignore it harder.

And temporarily?

Yes…
the body helps you survive.

You release endorphins.
Natural opioids.
You feel better for a short time.

But you didn’t fix the problem.

👉 You overrode the alarm.

Meanwhile underneath the surface:

• Cortisol rises
• Breathing changes
• Recovery drops
• Blood flow alters
• Movement patterns compensate

Your body stops adapting well…

👉 and starts surviving.

Then eventually the nervous system raises its voice.

More fatigue.
More stiffness.
More pain.
Poor sleep.
Poor recovery.

And what do people do?

👉 Push harder again.

That old line:
“No pain, no gain.”

Sounds tough.

But that’s your coach talking…
not a neuroscientist,
not a biophysicist,
not an applied physiologist,
not a kinesiologist.

Because you cannot strengthen what the nervous system has shut down.

You cannot out-train compensation.

And you definitely cannot force a body forward when it’s stuck in survival mode.

My job isn’t to push people harder.

My job is to find:
👉 what’s not working,
👉 what’s driving the compensation,
👉 what’s triggering the pain.

Then restore better movement,
better breathing,
better sequencing,
better recovery.

Because pain is not your enemy.

It’s feedback.

Ignore it…
override it…
suppress it…

👉 and eventually the bill arrives.

Listen to it…

👉 and the body finally gets a chance to change.

17/05/2026

💉 “David, Cortisone certainly helped my pain… so why later did the pain come back?”

Should I just get another shot

Every week I hear this, all the time maybe I’ll try again

And I get it—
Because cortisone works but …

👉 Pain goes down
👉 Swelling settles
👉 Movement feels easier

But here’s the part most people are never told…

🧠 Cortisone didn’t fix the problem.

It changes the bio chemistry, the immune response and the neural signalling

It suppresses:
• Cytokines (inflammatory signals)
• Macrophage activity (immune response)
• Local tissue sensitivity

👉 In simple terms:
It turns the volume down on the alarm system
OR
It pulls the battery from the smoke alarm, it has nothing to do with the fire

🔥 But pain isn’t random.

Pain is a message.

A signal that something:
• Isn’t moving well
• Isn’t loading well
• Isn’t coordinating well

ITS also like a wheel out of alignment
Using wd40 the noise drops but you know you better get it fixed

⚠️ So what happens next?

If you:
👉 Remove the signal
👉 But don’t restore the system

The body will…

…repeat the problem.

📉 And with repeated cortisone?

Research has shown:
• Short-term relief ✅
• Poor long-term outcomes ❌
• Potential tissue weakening ⚠️

Tendons… cartilage… fascia…

They don’t just “bounce back” if the pattern underneath is still broken.

🧠 Here’s what I see clinically:

People don’t have a “pain problem”

They have a:
• Movement problem
• Pattern problem
• Load distribution problem
• Neural coordination problem

💥 So let’s say it clearly:

👉 Cortisone can quiet the alarm…
…but it doesn’t rebuild the system that set it off.

🔍 My job?

Not to chase pain.

But to find:
• What’s not activating
• What’s not coordinating
• What’s not integrating

And then…

👉 Rebuild it
👉 Reconnect it
👉 Reinstall it into how you move

🚶‍♂️ Because the real goal isn’t “less pain”

It’s:
✔️ Better movement
✔️ Better control
✔️ Better function under load

Stop guessing.

Start testing.

If pain keeps coming back…

It’s not bad luck.

👉 It’s a pattern that hasn’t been fixed yet.

14/05/2026

🐾 Doggie Massage — What Dogs Teach Us About Movement

Every week I get lucky enough to work on a dog…
A true quadruped.

And honestly?
Dogs are often far more instinctively aware of movement than humans.

They know when something feels wrong.
They know when they’ve lost flow.
They constantly “check in” on their bodies.

Watch a dog wake up.

Before they even stand:
🐕 They stretch horizontally through the spine
🐕 They decompress their feet, elbows, shoulders, jaw, and even cranials
🐕 They arch and lengthen through the whole body
🐕 They reset tension before movement begins

Then comes the ritual:
➡️ The laying-down stretch
➡️ The slow walk
➡️ The shake from tail to jaw
➡️ Then suddenly… full sprint, gallop, twist, turn, and joy

That shake they do?
It’s incredible neurological resetting.

From tail…
through the spine…
through the jaw and tongue…
down into the feet.

A full-body decompression and recalibration.

But sometimes they can’t self-correct anymore.

That’s when they get brought to me.

I watch them walk.
I watch how they load their paws.
I watch how they change gears from walk → trot → canter.

And very quickly you can see:
⚠️ Loss of balance
⚠️ Guarding patterns
⚠️ Stiff shoulders or hips
⚠️ A jaw that won’t release
⚠️ A spine that no longer flows

Usually I find compression patterns from the legs upward into the jaw, ears, eyes, and cranials.

So I decompress.
I reset.
I restore side-to-side and front-to-back balance.
I help the nervous system find its movement map again.

And the beautiful thing with dogs?

The moment you relieve the problem…
they know.

The eyes soften.
The breathing changes.
The tail wags.
The kisses arrive.

And suddenly…
you have a new best friend for life. 🐾❤️

.

12/05/2026

🚑 “Medication helped me survive…
but movement is what brought me back.”

Six months ago after my accident, I was in hospital.

Emergency first.
👉 Strong medication. Necessary.
Then more medication.
Then home… still medicated.

And I remember asking:

🧠 “What is this drug actually doing?”

Because every medication had an action.

Some reduced inflammation.
Some reduced pain signalling.
Some calmed the nervous system.

👉 They changed the chemistry via neural receptor action

And thank goodness they did but they do not trigger mobility

So laying there in that hospital bed, another thought hit me:

⚠️ “None of this is rebuilding my movement.”

The medication could suppress signals…
but it could not restore patterns.

It could not reinstall coordination.

It could not teach my body how to move well again.

So slowly… carefully…

👉 I started moving.

In lying.
In sitting.
In standing.
In walking.

Not aggressively.
Not stupidly.

But deliberately.

Because the nervous system rebuilds through:
👉 input
👉 feedback
👉 activation
👉 movement under load

And this is something I now see constantly in others recovering from surgery.

A new hip replacement…
A knee replacement…
A shoulder reconstruction…

People are encouraged to “move”…

But often nobody integrates the rest of the body with the new structure.

Yet the body is a system.

👉 The opposite leg influences the new hip.
👉 Arm swing influences gait and thoracic breathing.
👉 The shoulders can help restore throat and breathing patterns after intubation.
👉 The jaw and neck can influence recovery after sinus or eye surgery.

The body doesn’t work in isolated parts.

It works through overlapping patterns.

And here’s the important part:

💥 Medication does not activate movement.

It suppresses signals.

Sometimes necessarily. Sometimes critically.

But subtle activation…
gentle loading…
reintroduction of coordinated movement…

That is what teaches the brain and body to trust the system again.

That’s where rebuilding begins.

Not just healing tissue…

👉 Reintegrating the human being.

Six months later, I’m not “perfect.”

But I move better.
I breathe better.
I coordinate better.
I trust my body more.

Because recovery is not just about surviving injury.

It’s about reinstalling function.

Stop guessing.
Start testing.

09/05/2026

🐎🐕 Different Quadrupeds…
Same Story

This week I worked on two very different animals.

Aspen the horse.
And Turtle — a beautiful Staffie boy.

Different species.
Different size.
But remarkably similar problems.

Years ago Aspen suffered a serious fall as a young horse, fracturing around the tuber coxae of the pelvis.

Turtle also had a stumble.

And both bodies responded the same way:
protective movement patterns.

Guarding.
Stiffness.
Uneven gait.
Difficulty smoothly progressing through the gait cycles.

In both Aspen and Turtle, the pelvis had become guarded — particularly into the right side.

And once that happens, the effects travel everywhere.

Because quadrupeds do not move through isolated joints.

They move through diagonal patterns.

Left hind ↔ right fore.
Right hind ↔ left fore.

When the pelvis loses clean movement:
• the spine compensates
• the ribs tighten
• the neck stiffens
• the jaw changes mechanics
• breathing changes
• gait cycles become interrupted

Even Turtle’s cough was influenced by altered movement mechanics and guarding through the spine, ribs, neck, jaw, and breathing patterns.

That’s the fascinating thing about movement.

The symptom is often not the true problem.

A stiff pelvis can become:
👉 a breathing issue
👉 a neck issue
👉 a jaw issue
👉 a gait issue
👉 a confidence issue

So today with both Aspen and Turtle we worked through:
• sagittal patterns
• rotational patterns
• diagonal loading
• reverse walking
• shifting through the gears of gait

Not forcing movement…
but helping the nervous system trust movement again.

Because healthy gait is not rigidity.

Healthy gait is adaptability.
Rhythm.
Oscillation.
Confidence under load.

And one of the most beautiful parts?

Animals know when you are helping them instead of forcing them.

Aspen gives me huge cuddles.
And Turtle softened almost immediately once his body realised movement no longer had to feel threatening.

Different quadrupeds.
Same nervous system principles.
Same need for confidence in movement. ❤️

06/05/2026

It’s now Six months ago
- I had an accident.

Whiplash.Concussion.Facial trauma.Surgery.Breathing changes.Sleep changes.Movement changes.

And honestly… for a while there, my nervous system felt like it was stuck running on emergency
A backup program just to get through the day.

When the nasal splints finally came out after one month, I realised just how much breath compensation I had been living with.

For weeks I could not properly ventilate through my nose.
Stairs were difficult.
Hills were humbling.
Sleep became fragmented with moments of anxiety and panic from poor airflow, elevated CO₂ and disrupted breathing mechanics.

So I adapted….
I put my thinking cap on
I’m a neuroscientist I’m a biophysicist yoga teacher running coach

Our body follows patterns and there are neurological rules.

So use them!!

I exaggerated arm swing and flexion to help thoracic expansion.I used pandiculations and reflexive movements to improve ventilation.I slept on angles to decompress my cervical spine and reduce pressure around the hyoid and upper airway.

And over the last 6 months, I’ve worked on everything.

Not just the “injury.”

👉 Joint mechanics👉 Muscle sequencing👉 Scar mobility👉 Thoracic expansion👉 Cranial and jaw articulation👉 Gait patterns👉 Breathing mechanics👉 Rotation, flexion and extension patterns

I’ve used movement.Hands-on therapy.Scar work.Breathing drills.Red light therapy.Skin oils and tissue hydration strategies.

Why?

Because healing is not just tissue repair.

Healing is the nervous system relearning safety, coordination, ventilation and efficiency.

Scar tissue itself is not “bad” — but if tissue loses glide, mobility and sensory feedback, the body creates compensations around it.
Remember there is rules

The body adapts incredibly well… but sometimes it adapts poorly.

Am I fixed?

Certainly not.

But am I vastly better?

Absolutely.

At 60+ years old:✔️ I can yoga again✔️ I can gym again✔️ I can cycle again✔️ I can run again✔️ I can perform 200m intervals at around 15 seconds per 100 metres

I got asked “ how f…old are you”
You would embarrass 30 year olds
So..
Not bad for an old bloke running a rebuilt operating system.

This entire experience reminded me of something important:

The body is not simply muscles and bones.

It is breathing.Pressure systems.Neurology.Reflexes.Pattern generators.Chemistry.Emotion.Adaptation.

And sometimes recovery is not about “getting back to normal.”

Sometimes it’s about learning your body deeply enough to build something better, and at least as good as before

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