Over the last few weeks, we have been graced by warmer temperatures, more sunlight and a welcome reprieve from a rather wet winter.  A long held past-time of mine also increases in frequency, with beehive inspections now becoming a [...]

We frequently hear these words on the sideline of sports fields, in our clinic rooms or even in social settings.  It’s a statement that makes me cringe every time. To set the record straight from the beginning – concussion [...]

With a particular focus on end of life, I wanted to take a swing at this seemingly heavy topic with a different perspective. You see so often we talk about the years of life, instead of the life in [...]

In the year 2019 BC* (*Before Covid), society was trundling along, generally business as usual.  Then suddenly, we had a lurching shift demanding that everything we once knew now had to be done remotely.  Our businesses went online, schooling [...]

Physical stress and the impact on the human body has been well documented in the scientific, medical, and psychiatric literature for a long time.  Even low level stress is shown to have an impact on the human body, let [...]

At any given time around 20% of adults in the workforce suffer from back pain.  In addition, a survey of 3000 working-age kiwis found a 9% absenteeism rate from work due to lower back pain.  In ACC statistics; the [...]

It seems that I have been bestowed the honour of signing off my Health Columns for 2023 in the last issue, so here goes with some end-of-year wisdom.  Or something like that.  It is a year that has seen [...]

Over the past few decades, technology has expanded and evolved at an unprecedented rate and is now interwoven within almost all areas of life.  The health sector is no different, and now many devices are available directly to the [...]

Over the past 4 months, I have taken it upon myself to learn something completely new.  To challenge myself by going back to being a beginner, a blue-eyed-bushy-tailed novice.  It has been in the form of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. [...]

Aristotle, Descartes and Isaac Newton (amongst many others) all had one thing in common; the near obsessive desire to form a method of enquiry that could be used to understand our place in the world.  A method of thinking, [...]