The Importance of Sleep
I’ve always had a healthy respect for sleep. I noticed in my early 20’s how detrimental a lack of sleep was to my mood and general outlook on life. Since then I’ve routinely slept at least 7 hours a night […]
Movement as Medicine
Movement as Medicine by Ed O Donovan | Sep 23, 2015 It is well-accepted that our modern sedentary lifestyle is a huge contributing factor to musculoskeletal problems and cardiorespiratory disease (Manson et al 2004). It is therefore not a giant leap […]
The Knee as part of a whole.
The knee is a hinge joint, the largest of its kind in the body. It garners much of its support from internal and external ligaments and has relatively less support from bony approximations. There is a large degree of flexion/extension […]
You’re not too old!
One of my all-time favourite quotes is from George Bernard Shaw, it’s a clever phrase but also an incredibly insightful one- “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” Aging is slow, tortoise […]