How nanotechnology can trick the body into accepting fake bones One of medicine’s primary objectives is to trick the body into doing something it doesn’t want to do. We try to convince our immune systems to attack cancer cells (our immune systems don’t normally attack our own bodies), we try to convince neurons to regrow […]
Here another study promotes the benefit of weight loss. Obese people face a vicious spiral of inactivity leading to chronic pain and pain-relieving drugs that cause weight gain, an international expert warns. There’s no simple fix but Dr John Pereira, from Canada’s largest pain clinic, says losing as little as five kilograms can have a […]
How jogging could be adding to rising arthritis in young Australians Osteoarthritis has doubled among younger Australians in recent years and new data suggests the culprits are strange bedfellows: obesity and jogging. Read More For more advice on the treatment of arthritis pain read here.
Why you should exercise (no, not to lose weight) Last year, I wrote a column arguing that evidence shows that diet, not exercise, is the key to weight loss. Since then, I have been troubled at how some readers have taken this to mean that exercise therefore has no value. Read More
At MHK we do hips and knees. We agree with this research, that specialising, will give better results. Read More
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