The Doctor who gave up drugs

This television programme was on a couple of months ago and is now unavailable so I can't guide you to watch it. The premise was whether a TV Doctor (seen on CBBC and Trust Me I'm a Doctor) could encourage people to be less dependant on drugs such as pain killers, anti-depressants and anti-biotics. Also he wanted to show that Type 2 diabetes and cholesterol could also be tackled with changes in life style.

Of course there is nothing new, probably along with every other Osteopath in the country I was shouting at the television" YES WE KNOW EXERCISE IS THE SINGLE MOST PROVEN FORM OF THERAPY FOR MOST MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS AND '21st CENTURY DISEASE" but it's not easy to change our lifestyles. The thing that resonated from the programme was the fact that we all need help and encouragement to stay on track. It's easy for a health practitioner to give advise, and we all intend to follow this advise, but life, preconceptions, disbelief all get in the way and good intentions get forgotten. (Cue my Mother's saying that "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions")

The answer of course is help, encouragement and reward. We at Dunelm Osteopaths are looking into ways to improve our patients' and our own physical and mental health.

In the meantime...go onto You Tube and look up 23 1/2 hours by Dr Mike Evans