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Most people treat headaches with ibuprofen and wait.But a significant number of chronic headaches — the kind that keep c...
10/15/2026

Most people treat headaches with ibuprofen and wait.

But a significant number of chronic headaches — the kind that keep coming back, the ones that live behind one eye, that get worse when you turn your head, that started around the same time as a change in your desk setup or a minor accident — aren't coming from your head at all.

They're coming from your neck.

Cervicogenic headaches originate in the cervical spine and surrounding soft tissue.

The muscles, joints, and nerves of your upper neck refer pain directly into the head. And they respond very well to physiotherapy.

If you've been managing headaches for a long time without ever having your neck assessed — that's something worth exploring.

On a day built around gratitude, this one comes easily.For twenty years people have trusted me with something deeply per...
10/12/2026

On a day built around gratitude, this one comes easily.

For twenty years people have trusted me with something deeply personal — their body, their pain, the thing that’s been quietly limiting their life. That trust is not something I take lightly.

To every patient who has shown up, asked the hard questions, done the work between sessions, and kept coming back — thank you. Collins Physio exists because of you.

Wishing everyone a warm and restful Thanksgiving. 🍂

Every September I hear some version of this: "I want to get back into it this fall."And every September I say the same t...
10/01/2026

Every September I hear some version of this: "I want to get back into it this fall."

And every September I say the same thing: great. And also — ease in.

The gap between where your body was in May and where it is now is real, even if you stayed active all summer. Your tissues, your nervous system, your joints all adapted to what you actually did this season — not what you planned to do.

Three weeks of intentional re-entry is worth more than three weeks of recovery.

Give your body the warm-up it's asking for.

September is one of the most stressful months of the year — new routines, back to school, the mental load of a schedule ...
09/30/2026

September is one of the most stressful months of the year — new routines, back to school, the mental load of a schedule that didn't exist last month.

And stress is not just a feeling. It's a physical event.

When your nervous system is under load, your muscles hold more tension and your pain threshold drops. Things that were manageable in August can genuinely feel worse in September — not because anything structurally changed, but because your system is running hotter.

This is why I ask about stress in every intake conversation. It's not small talk. It's clinicalinformation.

09/27/2026

One question worth asking yourself before fall gets busy:

Is the thing I'm managing actually getting better? Or have I just gotten used to it?

There's a version of managing pain that looks like improvement but isn't. You've just adapted. Reorganized your life around what hurts. Stopped doing the things that aggravate it.

That's not recovery. That's accommodation.

If something has been "fine" for months — it might be worth asking whether it's actually fine, or whether you've just stopped noticing.

Here's a pattern I see every September without fail.Summer means more movement, more variety, more time outside. Your bo...
09/26/2026

Here's a pattern I see every September without fail.

Summer means more movement, more variety, more time outside. Your body adapts to
that. Your hips get used to walking. Your nervous system settles into a different
rhythm. Your mood follows the light.

Then September hits. The schedule locks in, the sitting increases, the outdoor time
drops. Your body notices the shift — even before you do.

The stiffness that creeps in by October usually starts here. More desk time. Less
varied movement. The stress of a new routine landing in a body that hasn't caught
up yet.

It's not inevitable. But it helps to know it's coming so you can work against it.

09/22/2026

Dolly said it better than I ever could.

The number of people I see who have stopped running, lifting, gardening, playing — not because they physically can't, but because they're afraid of making something worse.

Fear of pain is real. Fear of re-injury is real. But avoiding movement rarely protects you. It usually just makes the problem harder to come back from.

If something's been keeping you on the sidelines — that's the conversation to have.

A physiotherapy assessment isn't just about the part that hurts.It's about understanding how your body has been loading,...
09/17/2026

A physiotherapy assessment isn't just about the part that hurts.

It's about understanding how your body has been loading, compensating, and adapting — often for a long time before anything started to feel wrong.

What I'm examining isn't always where the problem originates. But it's almost always connected to it.

That's what the first session is really for — finding the beginning of the story, not just treating the end of it.

September has a particular kind of energy — routines reset, kids back in school, the pace of summer finally slowing down...
09/04/2026

September has a particular kind of energy — routines reset, kids back in school, the pace of summer finally slowing down.

It's also when a lot of people notice things they'd been quietly ignoring. The knee that's been off since July. The shoulder that didn't quite recover. The lower back that's been compensating all season.

Summer keeps you busy enough to push through. September gives you the space to actually deal with it.

If something's been nagging at you — this is worth paying attention to.

08/31/2026

If you only have 90 seconds for your hips today, do this: just sit in a deep squat.

Feet flat, drop your hips down, elbows gently pushing your knees apart. That's it. Toddlers do it instinctively and then we spend the next 40 years losing the ability.

Hold it while you scroll your phone. Hold it while the kettle boils. Hold it while you're waiting for someone to text you back.

Your hips, lower back, and ankles all get a little something out of it — and it costs you nothing but the slightly undignified process of getting down there.

Try it today. Bonus points if someone in your house asks what you're doing.

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