Richard Lebert

Massage therapy can improve quality of life for individuals with a variety of conditions. Acknowledging the multidimensional nature of massage therapy paves the way for an evidence-based understanding of how massage therapy works.

This review aims at emphasizing the systems immunology perspective on immune system function and human performance, and its integration with other systems and factors relevant in physical activity such as nutrition, recovery, and sleep.

After three decades as a knee surgeon, I can say this with confidence…. many people are far more limited by the story their MRI report tells them than by the condition of their meniscus or articulation cartilage.

From @JAMAInternalMed: #RotatorCuff abnormalities on #MRI were found in 99% of adults aged 41 to 76, including 96% of asymptomatic shoulders, indicating most findings are age-related rather than disease. ja.ma/4tLyg4r

Just published 🔥 Intervertebral disc degeneration pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41644951/

A whole-person, life-course approach to brain health requires insights from neuroscience, lifestyle medicine, geroscience and the social exposome. Here, we place particular emphasis on integrating stress physiology, interoception, emotional resilience, and cognitive and brain reserve. Emerging frameworks (aging clocks, precision biomarkers, digital phenotyping and AI tools) are discussed as tools for risk stratification, early detection and personalized intervention. Congrats @DrLavretsky & team. doi.org/10.1038/s41386…

From its 70 year golden age, massage began its decline in the early twentieth century to become a complementary medicine, gradually discarded by the very body of professional people which had formed to protect it. history.physio/the-waning-tou…

Strength is a life long investment. journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfit…

Walking is really good for you compared to other forms of exercise. And you don't have to do all that much to get most of the benefit. (via @EricTopol)

Physical activity and the reduction of all-cause mortality, from 2 very large prospective cohorts 1. The relationship is non-linear, suggesting a threshold effect for many types of exercise as seen below

A new review of muscular aging just came out. In it, they showed some evidence that peak male strength tends to be around age 30 and peak female strength around age 26 (chart shows 10th/25th/50th/75th/90th percentiles). The differences in the levels are marked.

Deaths potentially averted by small changes in physical activity and sedentary time: an individual participant data meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Just published in BJSM Rethinking the disc: from degenerative narrative to adaptive potential bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/… reminds us of our infographic 👇

Just published 🔥 Great editorial in BJSM by @JaredPowell12 and colleagues It is not all about strength: rethinking mechanistic assumptions in exercise-based rehabilitation for musculoskeletal pain relief 👇👇👇 bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

A review of 34,000+ world-class shows: • Youth stars ≠ adult elites • Early specialization predicts early success, not peak performance • World-class adults show later specialization, broader early training, and slower early progress science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Massage and other Force-Based Manipulation act on multiple levels of the sensory system to foster adaptability and resilience. Good paper from Jinich-Diamant et al. (2025). doi.org/10.1016/j.neub…

Every six months, I share an updated list of systematic reviews that support the use of massage therapy. A number of new reviews have been published, examining the effectiveness of massage therapy across a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions. rmtedu.com/blog/the-evide…

A shift toward Whole-Person Health recognizes that well-being isn’t just what’s happening in the body—it’s shaped by our environment, social context, habits, and lived experiences. Image from - Cholewicki et al. (2025) doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions. This week @TheLancet published a landmark three-part series on the science, policy and politics of #UPF. thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…

📉New 47-year longitudinal study shows that physical capacity peaks at ~26–36 years and then declines by 30–48% by age 63. 👉The good news? Individuals who stay active throughout life maintain better strength, endurance & VO₂max than those who don’t. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41243424/