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!
Finding Ultra
I have this dream of being lean, healthy and super-fit! I\’ve just finished reading \’Finding Ultra\’ by Rich Roll. He was an alcoholic, unfit, overweight, overworking lawyer who completely reinvented himself, giving up the drink, eating a vegetarian diet, meditating daily, and getting so fit that he can compete in \’Ultraman\’ (think triathlon and then […]
My hill-climbing experience last weekend got me thinking….
Did I tell you that I went to Snowdonia last weekend? My \’kids\’ took me. They are 23 and 25 yrs old. We went hill-climbing, up Tryffan. It was very steep! Going up was not the problem, it was going down that was the problem for me, it killed my legs. It got me thinking […]
Andrew is ticked off….
Hedgehogs are increasingly rare in the UK. My girlfriend does her very best to hep them prosper by taking in under-weight young hedgehogs and keeping (and feeding) them through the winter. Sometimes the hogs are in poor shape when they turn up so they need some help, including tick removal. In this video Andrew talks […]
Do you want to see my holiday pictures?
We got back from our holiday in Scotland a few weeks ago. Here are a few pictures…..
It just went \’pop\’!
When describing how her back pain started, one of our patients said \’it just went pop\’! Find out what happened, and why, in this video!
What do your shoes say about you?
Maybe it\’s middle-age, or something, but I\’ve taken to walking quite a lot more in recent months. I really enjoy the loop out from Abingdon via the Marina, into Sutton Courtenay (to see my parents) and then back to Abingdon via Sutton Pools and Culham. It\’s a great bit of exercise! I looked at the […]