Month: April 2011

  • 1 week on

    Seven days after “retweaking” my right calf and resting it with just a couple of 10 minute runs in the week, it feels great. It feels strong, fresh and new. Going on previous experience with this problem I think I’ll rest it until the Gower Duathlon on Saturday though, to give it time to strengthen.…

  • Flexor hallucis longus

    All this fitness will be for naught if I can’t run 10km at the end of the race. I’ve been struggling with tight calves and pain for most of the year, and every time I rest & recover the problem soon returns. I have managed a run of over 2 hours, and I did start…

  • Neuroscience podcast 6: pain pathways

    The 6th podcast from Phil & me (sorry, Dr Phil Newton & Dr Samuel Webster) is up, live, available and downloadable. We talk about how sensations of pain are relayed to the brain and a little about how the brain perceives pain, phantom limb pain and referred pain. Phil also tells me how the brain…

  • A Map of the Cranial Nerves

    What do you think of this? I’ve been putting this together, probably, for the last couple of years. I was driven by the aim to visually represent, in a format that most of us recognise and can navigate easily, what the cranial nerves link to. That is, which structures send and receive information via neurones…