My new Personal Safety website: PDRManchester.com

20 October 2011
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For the last 6 weeks I’ve been working hard on building a new website and am very pleased to say it’s now ready for public consumption. As you may know, whilst I might be a mild mannered office worker by day, I have a super hero alter-ego as a self defence coach. Well maybe not [...]

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Finding Inspiration and Motivation

11 October 2011

When things in life are bad, it’s worthwhile taking a moment to check out some of the wonderful things you find on this great internet of ours, for the purposes of inspiration and motivation in life. Here are a few of my favourites: The Holstee Manifesto This is pure inspiration on a sheet of A4. [...]

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MRI Results = SLAP Tear (Shoulder Labrum)

3 October 2011
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This morning I had a Consultant’s appointment to get the result of my MRI and Arthrogram for my shoulder injury. Previously I’d been diagnosed with a PASTA lesion, which is a tear of the supraspinatus rotator cuff tendon, and the MRI was to look for a SLAP tear as well, which is where the cartilage [...]

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Corticosteroid Injection Side Effects for Golfers Elbow

24 September 2011
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I do try to keep up with what’s going on in the medical profession when it comes to golfer’s elbow treatment and recently came across this interesting article regarding a particular case of steroid injection for golfer’s elbow. If you don’t like all the technical speak, skip straight to the last sentence which is the [...]

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New Book: How Wheat Wrecks Your Health

13 September 2011
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I have far too many books in diet. Actually that’s not true. I have a lot of books on diet and health and wellness and sleeping and fish oil and such things, but there’s always room for more books! And this new book by Dr William Davis, MD: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the [...]

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Exercise from Day 1 may be best after SLAP Surgery

12 September 2011
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Mikael Kornihkov, over at the CrossFit Message Boards has posted up a really interesting medical paper that details the results of an experiment on shoulder surgery patients, to determine whether it’s best to keep the shoulder immobilised for several weeks (as per current conventional thinking) or whether you should start exercising the day after shoulder [...]

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Burpees with a Torn Rotator Cuff, Yay Burpees!

7 September 2011

Since I’ve returned to exercising and prehabilitating my shoulder’s torn rotator cuff by doing rotator cuff tear friendly exercises, I’ve noticed a marked improvement in my shoulder pain. No it’s not fixed, nor close to it but to be honest, if it wasn’t for wanting to exercises fully again, I reckon I could live a [...]

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Your Chance to Influence the ‘Squatters Rights’ Laws

3 September 2011
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I came across a consultation by the British government yesterday asking for people’s opinions on squatters and that current situation where the police don’t get involved because Trespass is a civil (not criminal) matter. But when your house is possessed and trashed by squatters, like Julia High’s (right) was when she went away for the [...]

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My Rotator Cuff Tear Exercises & Workouts

24 August 2011

I’ve been holding off posting an update on my torn rotator cuff (specifically the supraspinatus) as I went for an MRI and Arthrogram (MRA) 3 weeks ago and was hoping to post the result up. The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK may offer free quality care, but it’s certainly not fast! 3 weeks [...]

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Rotator Cuff MRI Shoulder Scan & Arthrogram (MRA)

4 August 2011
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A little while ago I posted about my torn rotator cuff (PASTA lesion), well this week I went to hospital for a shoulder scan, looking for a SLAP Lesion Tear. Just to be clear about the differences here, the terms mean: PASTA Tear – Partial Articular Sided Tendon Avulsions, which in terms you and I [...]

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