I’m always looking at ways to help patients address and manage their issues. I tend to treat the pain, problem then person. Normally in that order. Pain through massage and acupuncture. Problem through specific exercise prescription and joint mobilisations. Person through ergonomics, behaviour change and, often diet. Full disclosure now – I eat a plant…

It has only just started warming up and the clocks haven’t even gone forward yet so I’m feeling smug to find a dry day in Avon Gorge. It wasn’t at first but a bit of abseiling and the Qin was hot off the blocks into her first, trad lead. Between them they managed 6 full…

“there is limited use of recommended first-line treatments and inappropriately high use of imaging, rest, opioids, spinal injections, and surgery” It’s official – physiotherapy isn’t used as much as it should be. I always knew. Here’s a picture of me snow shoeing up Punta Peinia – never again http://www.csp.org.uk/news/2018/03/21/research-highlights-gaps-knowledge-effectiveness-back-pain-techniques

I’m a fair weather climber/cyclist/walker/runner nowadays so hide in climbing walls during the winter. As this doesn’t make for good blogging here’s my wife on Pen y Fan on that really nice weekend we had – remember that? Anyway, here’s an article about the beneficial effects of sesame seeds on knee arthritis. Sounds like a…

Often, our first response to injury is the wrong one; we get stressed, we tighten up and experience increasing pain. Demonstrated quite well by footballers – the physio runs on and lo and behold up he gets (I use the masculine on purpose), right as rain. So what is happening? I’m being a physio at…

I’m at TCA/UCR tomorrow looking after the squad and visiting climbers, it’ll be fun but stressful for the competitors. If you pop along I’ll be happy to have a look at anything that ails you. Any questions, get in touch Check out @undercoverrock’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/undercoverrock/status/957669635545059328?s=09

Full disclosure – I’m not. I mean, I say that but ‘Mericans call a wall a climbing gym so I suppose it’s all down to your point of view. I definitely enjoy hanging out with buddies and ‘working out’ but as you can see, I’m a bit of a stranger to the rows of machines.

Check out my run on Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/1363119258/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1516286156

Acupuncture is an indispensable party of my practice and has been for over 5 years. There’s so much to know I am always a little overwhelmed by how much I don’t know. Great to have John Hobbs, @AACP_Physio Chair and all-round needle genius to make things seem manageable.  This weekend, acupuncture for headaches and migraines….