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Todd Hargrove
Personal blog · bettermovement.orghealthscience
Todd Hargrove writes BETTER MOVEMENT, a personal blog at bettermovement.org about health and science. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Todd Hargrove's blog for skeptical looks at pain and movement science, including his take on Sarno's theories of chronic pain and his MRI-based comparisons of muscle use in active and sedentary people.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Better Movement blog by Todd Hargrove. Practical Science on Movement and Pain.
What Hacker News says?
Sarno's book is part great and part fluff, but the idea that stress/ideas play a big part in chronic pain is not controversial among pain scientists. Explain Pain by Butler and Moseley is a great book about this, but unfortunately it is rather expensive. The latter part of this blog post gives a summary: http://changeyourpain.com/2011/03/03/what-was-that-about-chr... This is a TED video by Moseley: http://www.youtub…
Comment linking /2010/seven-things-you-should-know-about-pain-science/
on “Resolutions for programmers”Submitted Pain and Learning as a story · 10 points
HN discussionBrings to mind the MRI scans of the thighs of an elderly athlete versus an elderly sedentary man https://www.bettermovement.org/blog/2012/use-or-lose-looks-l...
Comment linking /blog/2012/use-or-lose-looks-like
on “Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds”Submitted How Does Foam Rolling Work? (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWasn't there an article on motor skill recently, how practising variations of a motion (or two different motions) can be wildly more effective than simply focusing on one single movement? I can't seem to find a hn posting, but this one is along the lines of what I'm thinking of: "The Fastest Way To Learn" http://www.jonahlehrer.com/blog/2016/2/15/the-fastest-way-to... While looking, I also came across: "Why Slow Mov…
Comment linking /blog/2010/why-practice-slow-movement
on “Not All Practice Makes Perfect”I like this article about Dr. Sarno's theories: http://www.bettermovement.org/2011/a-skeptical-look-at-the-t... . In summary: his treatment probably works, but his theories explaining chronic pain are most likely incorrect.
Comment linking /2011/a-skeptical-look-at-the-theories-of-dr-john-sarno/
on “How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)”
