Year: 2010

  • Cast off

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    46 days post-fracture and I had the fibreglass cast cut off my left leg today, and my foot and its x-ray images examined. All seems good (although the callus looks messy on the x-ray – it would be great to look at the same bone in 12 months time to see the remodelling). Notes from…

  • Walking

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    41 days of healing. I walked 3km or so with Annabel with no pain in the area of the repairing bone today. At about a kilometre I had a dull sensation in the region of the fracture that quickly faded. After that the only discomfort was from the cast flexing and crushing my toes and…

  • Week 6 in plaster

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    I’m finally into my 6th and hopefully final week in plaster. My foot is feeling really solid still, and the only discomfort I’m getting is from the plaster cast flexing and squashing my toes and banging against my heels. Walking is still a bit of a hobble because the cast prevents any ankle movement and…

  • Anatomy: the orbit & superior orbital fissure

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    On Monday we went through the bones of the orbit, what the superior orbital fissure (and inferior orbital fissure and optic canal) were, and what went through it (and them). To review the bones of the orbit look at these images. Hover over the bones to be reminded of their names. We also noted that…

  • 5 weeks in plaster

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    I’ve done 5 weeks in plaster now. That’s 35 days in a cast from my toes to my knee on my left leg. From the end of week 4 the foot started to feel really solid again with no pain. I can sometimes wiggle it and find an interesting sensation, like probing a painful tooth…

  • How busy?

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    You never realise how much you do until you stop. This seems to be particularly true of training. Skills swims, endurance swims, long runs, 800m track intervals, ME swims, easy bikes, cruise intervals, hilly bikes, long bikes, tempo runs, sea swims, maximum strength sessions, massage and foam rollers. When you stop all that a huge…

  • Neuroscience podcast no. 2

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    Another neuroscience podcast is out: Phil tells me why my weight is fairly stable, what happens in my brain when I get hungry and what changes when I have eaten. We talk about the adipostat, leptin, ghrelin and obesity, why we choose particular foods and how dopamine, opioids and (probably) serotonin are involved. MP3: Neuroscience…

  • Week 4

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    My ability to walk and move is much easier three and a half weeks after breaking my foot, but the boredom isn’t getting any easier to deal with. I really miss the feeling of movement, of running, swimming or cycling. Reading about it, or planning for the rest of the year doesn’t help much (although…

  • X-ray at 18 days.

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    For interest. This oblique view is more telling than the A-P.

  • New neuroscience podcast!

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    Phil Newton (henceforth to be known as Dr Phil) and I have begun a new podcast series to help medical students and others in similar need learn about neuroscience. Phil intends the series to be complementary to the lecture series in Swansea, but it should be useful and maybe even interesting to students anywhere. In…