How quick are your reflexes?
When I was a kid, I used to play cowboys with my pals Geoff and Pete. We had toy pistols that make a great bang when we did our gun draw duels, but I was always the slowest to draw my gun and was always the first to ‘die’. We used to talk about having […]
It’s worse than that, he’s dead, Jim!
Sat 8th September is Star Trek Day. Why? Because Star Trek was first on TV on 8th September 1966! My favourite character was ‘Bones’, the Medical Officer on the Spaceship. Was ‘Bones’ the first astronaut chiropractor? Watch the video and find out!
My girlfriend doesn\’t like beetroot!
There is a common condition that quite often causes back pain. The standard medical treatment in recent years has been medication, but there is a shift now towards managing this condition with dietary changes and weight loss. Find out what this condition is by watching this very brief (1 min) video, where we visit our […]
I got my license….. from a cornflake packet!
You’re probably too young to remember the old days…… no breakfast TV! The only thing to do was to read the Cornflake packaging. Cornflakes are apparently fortified with Niacin. ‘Why is that important?\’ you ask…. Well, find out in short this video…. (Warning: contains footage of bad driving, as well as one of the secrets […]
Do you want to live for an extra 12 years?
Recent research has suggested that if we adopt five healthy lifestyle practises before the age of fifty that we can increase our life expectancy by twelve years, compared with people who do not adopt these practises. What are these healthy lifestyle practises? You\’ll have to watch the video to find out (it\’s less than 2 […]
My sailing holiday (how to break your spine part II)
I was reading the Scottish Medical Journal the other day (it’s new to me, and much recommended!) when I came across this article about spinal compression fractures sustained by people on jet-skis and motor boats while on holiday in Malta Ways of breaking your spine seem to be a theme of mine, currently, on this […]
Ed is leaving us!….
Tara is back from maternity leave at the beginning of June, so Ed is leaving us at the end of this month. Many thanks to him for all the care he has given the patients that he has been looking after. Ed is going to work with a chiropractor in Headington, Jon Howat. Good luck […]
Eject…..eject….!
Did you go to Abingdon airshow this weekend? We did, and had a great time. There was a scale model of a Lightning jet, like my Dad used to fly in the 1960s and 70s. These jets were pretty unreliable and pilots sometimes had to eject. This would frequently cause a spinal compression fracture. That’s […]
Simple back stretching exercises
I have a friend, Marin, who lives, with her husband, in Honolulu. She has made some exercise videos for us, many of which you will find on the ‘self-help’ page of our website.Have a look at this set of exercises. They are simple back stretches which most of us can do and will find helpful. […]
My jeans were too tight!
Back in January, I thought that my washing machine was playing up, and shrinking my jeans! But then I realised that I was using a different hole on my belt buckle, and that actually, all of my clothes were too tight. Oops – too fat! Time to lose weight. Two months later, and I had […]