37 Years Ago
37 years ago last night I was in the car accident that changed my life forever – my spine was broken in two places and my pelvis in five places. Fortunately the spinal fractures were not in places that affect the spinal cord. My life could have been so very different otherwise. I had graduated
Enjoy A Slightly Less Unhealthy Christmas Season!
Here are some simple tips for a slightly less unhealthy festive season this year! 1. Sit Less! This year in particular has been a Year of Sitting Dangerously – too much sitting stiffens up your hip and knee and ankle joints, and lowers your metabolic rate which makes it more likely to gain weight. So
Christmas Neck
Talking – there’s a lot of talking at Christmas: family celebrations, long meals, sitting around. Yet does your dodgy neck mean that the thought of that “watching a tennis-match” feeling of being in a conversation, the to-ing and fro-ing of words from left and right and back again, make your heart sink, and might even make
Lady Corona and Lord Covid
It was my birthday a few days ago – and this year of course, the conundrum of how to celebrate, Lockdown style… All my working life (and this summer saw me celebrating 30 years of being an osteopath) I have had a rule to Never Work on my birthday: – rather, a day out, and
Tips for Inner Calm
Life right now can feel like a series of broken fragments – shifting shadows that never stay still. There is hardly time to get used to one way of doing things when it is All Change, All Change – hold very tight please! (as Flanders and Swann would sing) – so long as you have
A Tattoo and a Fire Alarm
Chaps, this is for you too…. 14 years ago I had an appointment at St Thomas‘ Hospital in London: ‘Tommies 16.45h’ it says in my diary – for my only tattoos – to mark the co-ordinates for my radiotherapy due to start a couple of weeks later. This is so that the radiographers can line