Author: zifnab

Crikey, can’t really call this a blog any more… Hopefully going to be less useless and put some stuff here every so often! For the last few years, as well as running the clinic in London, I’ve been hanging out in some of my really old haunts, making an effort to visit the moors and…

Something which I have been looking thinking about a lot recently is how much time I spend discussing imaging with patients. Not so much their actual images (if they have any), but the possibility of getting them. The process usually goes like this: Patient: I have been thinking about having an x-ray/MRI for it Me:…

In a previous job I worked assessing gym members to give them a score for their life and encourage them to exercise more. Whilst most of this was relatively unrewarding, there were two parts which made it more interesting: Firstly, getting the chance to see every person standing, walking, running, doing press-ups and crunches really…

Or at least the lateral one. “Musculuspterygoideuslateralis“. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. I have just finished reading this excellent article on attempting to treat the lateral pterygoid via direct digital stimulation. On those occasions where I have used techniques like this, I have definitely noticed that the area described is very tender, and extremely hard,…

So far, I have been working on the IdoPortal hanging challenge for a week, having bought a cheapo pull up bar from Amazon. My first thoughts – Ido talks about whether or not to wear gloves and states that he never had trouble. I think I have already noticed changes to calluses on my hands. Nothing so…

I have recently successfully been getting myself back into having hobbies! This has meant aiming for a weekly class of Shorinji Kempo, and keeping up cycling. However, I have also been trying some newer things – the family have just started trying the basic 7-minute workout from this paper. To make it interesting, we have already…