Year: 2008

These illustrations show variations on the theme of 'crossed syndromes' wheremuscle groups alternately short/tighten, or are inhibited/lengthen, withnegative effects on functionality The central figure above shows a lower crossed syndrome with weak abdominals and...

This last Saturday late afternoon I found myself sitting in Corfu Greece, chatting to around 8500 individuals scattered around the globe.This not what I normally do on Saturday afternoons in Corfu, but this was different.I had gladly agreed to join an initiative...

Atoravastatin, the most prescribed statinFirstly, to anyone frustrated by the lack of new postings on my blog - I apologise. It's been a busy time, and the blog was neglected.STATINS....You will have read the promotional hype that this 'wonderdrug' is no longer...

Daunt's...the finest independent bookshop in London & Marylebone High StreetThe yachtLord Mandy....Corfu harbour - Venetian Fortress in backgroundAs regular readers to this spasmodically updated blog will know, I live most of the year in Corfu.How I ever got to that...

(Above) Stage pass from gala benefit show to rescue T-T (1989)(Left) Book cover of the new Terry-Thomas biography (Right) J.G. Bennett (1973) the man who brought Subud to the West. I've just started reading the new biography of the life of Terry-Thomas - one of the...

The 2 photographs (from the DVD in Muscle Energy Techniques 3rd edition, 2006, Churchill Livingstone) show osteopathic soft tissue techniques (for release of psoas tightness, and for stretching of quadratus lumborum)......while the old drawing is an illustration of...

If this presidential election was a film-script it would be rejected for containing too many unbelievable elements.The characters are over-the-top, and the background scenario's too complexly fantastic to be true.Consider the major players:Aging semi-articulate,...

These images are a selection taken from Google's Image site - using the key words "Festival of Body, mind & spirit"..... they were among the least odd!Have you been to a "natural living" or ‘health’ show lately?This posting might irritate some readers, and anger...

Like many people I've watched in amazement as Michael Phelps has smashed world record after world record at the Olympics.At the time of writing he's added 7 Gold medals to his haul of 6 collected in Athens 4 years ago..... with one more to come this weekend...

It's August, and for reasons too boring to explain I'm in London instead of Corfu........... although not for much longer I hope!So what did I find to do in London in August?Well for one thing a long-delayed spring cleaning of piles of papers, magazines, journals,...

The line in the graph shows the decreases in a fibromyalgia patient's pain distribution during treatment. The pain distribution is the percentage of 36 body divisions containing pain, indicated by her onher pain drawing. Her pain distribution decreased during...

Way back in the 1980's (1987 to be precise) Optima published a small book - that I had coauthored with my wife Alkmini (who focused her attention on food preparation issues in the book) - entitled "Stone Age Diet". If you're really interested in this I note that...