When I was a child I used to love reading Aesops Fables. Reading this the other day brought back memories of that book.  “An American businessman took a vacation to a small coastal Mexican fishing village on doctors orders. Unable to sleep after an urgent phone call from the office the first morning, he walked…

This is an extract from my “Food as Medicine course with Monash University Plant foods as medicines Across history, many fruits and vegetables and other plant foods have been used, recommended and/or avoided for their supposed medicinal properties. As one example, when the Tudor boy king Edward VI was dying of tuberculosis, he was given:…

Compression clothing has been around for quite a while and judging by the shelves of Sports Direct is here to stay for a while longer, when you do a web search for it, a huge amount of misinformation and marketing rubbish will come up, either making you rush out to cover yourself head to toe in lycra or not…

Since the 1970’s the general consensus amongst medical professionals when dealing with an acute injury has been to prescribe the acronym P.R.I.C.E. This has been believed to be the ideal way to treat a soft tissue injury in its acute phase. For those who don’t know what it stands for: It’s.. Protect – Protect the injured person…

Levator Scapulae is located on the posterior lateral portion of the neck. Its main function is to lift the scapula (shoulder blade) It originates from the posterior tubercle of the transverse processes of C1-C4. It is inserted into the medial border of the scapula. When the spine is fixed Levator Scapulae elevates and medially rotates…