As you read this I am drawing to the end of a week off from clinic, time with the family and preparing to turn 43 on the August 24th. We always hire a beach hut at this time of year so we can watch the Bournemouth air show swimming in the sea (not this year sadly). It would be fair to say the weather has been…
In 1997, members of a religious cult called Member of Heaven’s gate, prepared to be taken up into spaceship flown by alien life forms. They believed as the Hale-Bopp comet passed by Earth, a spaceship would be travelling in its wake, ready to take true believers aboard. Several members of the group bought an expensive, high-powered telescope so that they might get a clearer view of the…
As a neuromechanical practitioner the chances are you see quite a lot of people who are in chronic pain and so the chances are you might have heard about the recent NICE guidance on chronic pain. Nice NICE summary here ;o)…..http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/gps-should-not-prescribe-opioids-for-chronic-pain-says-nice/20041262.article I found the guidance and the commentary around it fascinating. Fascinating because so much of it is so blindingly obvious to anyone who truly…
After we re-opened clinic, some of the older patients I have cared for over many years were slower to return and some of the changes over the 3-4 months since I saw them last were pretty upsetting. A combination of muscle wasting/sarcopenia, rounded posture, shuffling gaits, unsteadiness, pale skin, depression….lockdown has not been good for the older population. One word would describe it: Fragile I…
Did you see the news? A few weeks ago we talked about evidence based nonsense and why the drive for RCT’s to “prove” everything has left us in a place David Sackett, the “founder” of EBM, did not anticipate or like. The reality of RCT’s is that they are designed to change one thing, to “prove” the one thing causes condition X or one drug/intervention has a “significant” effect…
It is 2014 and I am on holiday in Maderia, with my family, Iris isn’t quite yet 4 and Floyd is gestating nicely inside Natalie, ready to unleash his own brand of fury onto the world. I have made a conscious decision to only check my email once in the week long trip and when I do my life changes forever. I get an email…
Quite a few years ago a well established Chiropractic clinic near to where I practice was bought by an unnamed group. The single-owner had been there for around 25 years and had a solid patient base. Two brand new shiny and enthusiastic graduates were placed there to much fanfare with an extensive advertising campaign (they even did radio ads and everything). Now I am all good with competition, in…
Back in the AECC days, I was the king of carbs, no doubt it. Breakfast – Cereal, toast, muesli Such – Baguette/sandwich Dinner – Pasta/pizza Snacks – Chocolate, crisps, lager Leaving aside the damage I was causing with my as yet I’m diagnosed with gluten sensitivity, my blood sugar levels were up and down like a yo-yo. I did not know it at the time but…
If you hang onto your clothes for long enough, eventually they come back into fashion. It is the same within the nutrition world, we all like shiny new objects to go for, but sometimes the old stuff comes around and suddenly it looks all new and shiny again. In this case, we are going to look at a classic old school remedy, apple cider vinegar…
It is 1999, I am in my fourth year of training as a Chiropractic and we are being taught by a full-time practising Chiropractor for the first time He is teaching us Sacro-occipital technique (SOT) and he is saying things that I have never heard of but it is really piquing my interest. He is telling us the cranium and jaw are linked to the…