Did I tell you about my tennis career?
I have loads in common with Andy Murray…. I’m Scottish -well, half-Scottish anyway. (By the way the Burns night went really well, thanks). My Mum loves us both and I’m also called Andy by my pals. (For some reason I’m always called Andrew at work, I’m not sure why)!. I used to play tennis too, and […]
How do you know if one leg is longer than the other?
It\’s nearly Burns night (25th Jan), so we are having a Burns night supper: Haggis (vegetarian), neeps and tattys! The fictional wild haggis was reputed to have legs longer on one side than the other, in order to be able to walk around the Scottish mountains! This may be good for a haggis, but is […]
Fitness or Pharmacy?
If you need some inspiration to get yourself exercising in 2019, checkout this video discussing a new piece of research demonstrating that exercise can be as good as medication in reducing blood pressure. Wow! This is a ground-breaking piece of high quality research. Andrew is also inspired to get into a new form of exercise: […]
My Mum\’s Christmas Cake is so good…..it\’s BAD!!!!
My Mum makes the BEST Christmas cake ever. But like most things in life, what we love may not be so good for us….in excess. Increasingly all practitioners have patients who complain of symptoms of gout: pain, often quite severe, commonly in the big toe. This is probably due to our rich lifestyle. In this […]
What have sprouts ever done for us?
I have to admit it I am a great fan of brussel sprouts. I certainly wasn\’t as a child. In fact the sprouts cooked in school kitchens produced an aroma that would put most people off eating sprouts – forever! There are some great reasons for eating sprouts – watch the video and find out […]
The Ice Man
I have just finished reading this very interesting book by investigative journalist, Scott Carney. He had heard about a Dutchman called Wim Hof who was making some quite extra-ordinary health claims about using a combination of cold exposure, breathing techniques and meditation to improve health and fitness. Scott Carney visited Wim Hof and participated in […]
Cold showers in the North
Did I tell you that my youngest son is in his last year at Leeds university? We went to visit him there a couple of weeks ago. On the Saturday he took us to visit Harrogate, which used to be a spa town. The sick from all around the country used come to Harrogate to […]
Is your MOT overdue?
I like to do an annual \’MOT\’ with my regular patients. Once per year checking a few key things such as weight, blood pressure and discussing exercise and diet. This helps me to make sure that we are not missing any important issues that may be slowly changing without being noticed. Is your MOT overdue?
A perfectly \’armless fall
Many of you will know that Andrew is doing his diagnostic ultrasound training (it\’s a slow process) and have been very gracious in allowing him to practice on you – thank you! Here is a short video about a case where diagnostic ultrasound was really helpful in deciding whether the patient needed to go to […]
Birthday cake
What do bones and cake have in common? Their honeycomb-like structure, of course! We sometimes see patients with back pain as the result of compression fractures in the spine. In this video I discuss the type of pain produced by a compression fracture… as well as the cake that I made for my girlfriend\’s birthday!