Back in 2001 when I was a fresh-faced graduate and naive beyond belief, I was all about the magic happening with my hands. If I could just get better an adjusting and doing SOT techniques, then lepers would be cured and people would rise out of their wheelchairs. The history taking was really an irritation but done to make sure they didn’t have something nasty…
I have prepared a 16-minute video this week with some exciting COVID-19 and vitamin D news, with a short resume on vitamin D basics. Click the video, turns out vitamin D is even more awesome than we thought. ACTION TO TAKE – Use the patient education videos on my personal website to educate your patients on vitamin D production, symptoms and dosing. These are part…
Tantrums, tears, screaming, foul language and low-level violence. These are just a few of things that occurred at my daughters birthday party to celebrate her 10 years on planet earth. But to be fair I’d slept badly, then got a bit hypoglycaemic and then when I didn’t win at crazy golf, I just lost my s**t…….dont judge me. It is quite remarkable to see how…
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…