Having spent a couple of years reading and retweeting numerous homages to exercise, and detailing its immense benefits to patients, I finally had to confess to myself that while I agreed with, approved of, applauded and condoned exercise in all forms, I didn’t actually do much myself. Just because I stand watching kids play football…
This is an update of a previous post, with new material added October 2016. Rod Stewart had a brief stint working as a decorator before leopardskin-clad superstardom struck: “You learn a lot about yourself from doing physical work”, he said, ” and what I learnt was that I don’t like physical work”. I was reminded of…
I hope it’s not only me that reads Aches and Pains by Louis Gifford and thinks “What have I been doing with my life?”. Yes it’s humbling, but I console myself with the thought that we all have our own paths in life, and part of his was clearly to write the classic, seminal text…
Get evidence-based right here right now! A study has just been published, this one in the prestigious JAMA, which shows that exercise prevents low back pain recurring in the short term. This is not a groundbreaking idea, but nice to see it backed up with very convincing solid stats. Prevention of Low Back Pain: A…
When I first became an osteopath, I remember lots of people saying “Is it mostly old people you see?”. Funnily enough, it wasn’t. I didn’t see that many elderly people, certainly not a disproportionately large number. (If anything it was disproportionately fewer). But I know why people said it. It seems to be a prevalent…
You might have noticed that even though this is ostensibly an osteopathy blog, I venture off-piste quite regularly. This is partly as there is a wealth of innovation and research going on in related fields, which I think osteopaths should be aware of, but also as we have a marvellous opportunity to educate our patients. Not…
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