Musings

Please note that this article was written in June 2020. Some of my osteopathic colleagues have started going back, but for me, this whole relaxing of Lockdown [which I feel was unnecessarily delayed] simply feels too soon. When professors at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine advise that we should wait – well, […]

Why COVID-19 reminds me of going through Chemotherapy… 14 years ago I was going through chemotherapy for breast cancer – fortunately, the summer of 2006 was a hot one, so I was quite happy to lose my hair – and found that it weirdly suited me. Here in 2020, watching a world convulsed by Coronaggedon,

Dear World, Thank you for this time you have given us, this time you have claimed. YOU could see the madness we were making; and through the bats, your creatures of the dark, spirits of the night that should fly free – you are firmly and lovingly taking us by the hand. We are as

What is the leading cause of death for young people aged 5-29? According to the Road Safety Week website: “Every 24 seconds someone is killed on a road. More than 1.3 million people die on the world’s roads every year. Road crashes are the the leading cause of death for young people aged 5-29.” This

“Cloudy with a Chance of Pain” – what a wonderful name for a research project! Led by Professor Will Dixon of Manchester University, it recruited 2,500 people suffering with different kinds of arthritis, fibromyalgia etc and asked them to monitor their levels of pain with their smartphones, which also recorded their local weather. The research

“Music was my first love and it will be my last…” Do you remember that John Miles song from the 1970s? Today, 26th September 2019, is BBC Music Day: “the UK wide, annual celebration of the power of music to change lives” – something dear and near to my heart. From an early age I realised

The 1st July marks my osteopathic birthday, as that’s when I started working. In fact, that year it was a Sunday, but I had to take out liability insurance from the beginning of the month, so 1st July it is. This year marks 32 years since I qualified from the, then, British School of Osteopathy.

Anatomy books are a bit like maps, for the body – there are simple ones that don’t show much detail, and then larger scale ones that show a bit more, all the way to the detailed A-Z that is the mighty tome of Gray’s Anatomy (yes it was a book long before the TV series!)

As Sir Bruce would say, let’s “keep dancin’”. For those who know me or have been following me, it will come as no surprise that I shall be going dancing tonight – to a modern jive reunion. I have recently been reconnecting with my love of jive and Ceroc – the sheer energy of it